The home ministry has asked the civil aviation ministry to go ahead with its plan to review the list of 33 categories of people, including the Dalai Lama and Vadra, who are currently exempted from frisking at airports in the country.
Currently, the airline has about 13,000 employees.
Displaying a washing machine on its press conference dais, the Congress on Saturday taunted the Bharatiya Janata Party over the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filing a closure report in a 2017 corruption case against Nationalist Congress Party leader Praful Patel and said the ruling party's 'fully automatic washing machine' works on the principle -- 'join BJP, case closed'.
This visit by the prime minister comes weeks ahead of the 'pran pratishtha' or consecration ceremony of the Ram temple.
The report, released a little over a year after the deadly crash of the Air India Express plane, said the "probable cause of the accident was the non adherence to SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) by the PF (Pilot Flying)".
The episode has been classified as an 'accident' as it has left serious injuries on passengers and crew members, the sources mentioned.
The agency is carrying out searches at eight locations in Delhi, Noida, Lucknow and Mumbai in this regard.
Along with IAF officials, the AAIB will also reach out to experienced private sector executives, meteorologists, and aviation psychologists to be part of the probe.
Over 30 passengers have suffered ear and nose-bleed after the crew on Jet Airways flight 9W 697 reportedly forgot to select a switch that helps maintain cabin air pressure
The capability of drones to evade radar, wreak devastation at strategic installations and transport weapons to terrorists has been a continuous concern for the country's security establishment, and in a maiden incident, these unmanned vehicles were used to strike an Indian Air Force base in Jammu on Sunday, officials said.
ersonnel in a revamp that aims to provide cost-effective, reliable, and professionally competent security service at airports. Aneesh Phadnis reports.
'The DGCA, the ministry of civil aviation, Air India, the Airports Authority, all of them together form what I call an organised syndicate' 'In India, it is a fashion to blame the pilot because then nobody asks questions about the incompetence and grave negligence of this State-run syndicate.'
Asthana is at present working as the Director General of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security in New Delhi.
Airline executives said the rule is conflicting as regulator's own rules permits a passenger to carry multiple other things like laptop bag, ladies' hand bag, blanket, item bought at duty free shops, reports Arindam Majumder.
"All efforts are being made to help passengers. A formal enquiry will be conducted by Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau," the minister said on Twitter.
The move comes after the ministry of civil aviation wrote a letter to the BCAS informing that it had decided to revoke permission granted in 2009 allowing Lalu Yadav and his wife's vehicle to drive up to the tarmac.
Budgetary support of Rs 10,00,000 each was provided to Hotel Corporation India, Aero Club of India and Indira Gandhi Rastriya Uran Akademi.
The average age should be around 35 years, the sources said, adding those older should be shifted to ground operations.
An unprecedented decision to form a ministerial-level committee was driven by fears of witch-hunt by investigating agencies.
The King Air C90 12-seater aircraft had taken off from the Juhu airstrip on a test flight.
You may soon be asked to take off your shoes and belts, and jewellery if you are wearing, at the security check counters of the Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi.
With the reality of coalition politics staring the BJP in its face, this was inevitable, points out Ramesh Menon.
Security agencies are closely monitoring developments in the wake of killing of Osama bin Laden with Union Home Ministry issuing a country-wide alert to ensure safety of United States nationals and enhanced security at American and Jewish installations in particular.
The base will be used by carriers such as Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India, to operate 70-seater ATR aircraft to places such as Bengaluru.
A 61-year-old cardiac patient Virender Rai, who was being flown to Delhi, has been rushed to the Medanta hospital in Gurgaon immediately after the incident.
Rai claimed he has been framed in the case as he has been writing against an Enforcement Directorate official who was part of the team probing the 2G spectrum allocation scam case.
Airports in Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai were on Wednesday night put on high security alert in the wake of intelligence inputs that terrorists of Pakistan or Afghanistan origin may strike these installations by this weekend ahead of the anniversary of demolition of Babri Masjid.
The PM urged all citizens to light diyas in their houses on January 22 so that the whole country basks in glory.
The accident occurred at 7:45 pm while the pilot was attempting to land the B737 Air India Express from Dubai at the tabletop runway of the Karipur International Airport.
While the Saudi drone strike has put the focus back on anti-drone measures, caution also stems from the fact that India has a number of large oil refining assets close to India-Pakistan border.
Air travellers, travelling to a domestic or an international destination, can furnish original PDF files on the owners email id or otherwise which is clearly readable to the Central Industrial Security Force security personnel posted at the entry gate of civil airports of the country.
The row over a parliamentarian being asked to disembark from an Air India aircraft by its pilot deepened on Monday with reports indicating that a panel, which probed the incident, has concluded that he had entered the cockpit, thus violating airline regulations. However, official sources said the Mumbai unit of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security, which carried out the probe, is yet to submit its report to the BCAS headquarters in New Delhi.
The Central Industrial Security Force, which is guarding all these airports, stepped up vigil and deployed additional personnel after the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security alerted the paramilitary force about the danger.
Fadnavis had gone to Latur in Marathwada region when the mishap occurred.
"We received an e-mail last week which we passed on to the security agencies concerned. The Bureau of Civil Aviation has also issued an alert. On our part, we are taking all the required security measures," an Air India spokesperson told PTI in Mumbai on Saturday.
The government on Wednesday issued new guidelines for international arrivals amid the spread of mutant variants of coronavirus in many countries.
An unclaimed suitcase lying near the entrance of the international terminal at the Chennai airport created panic among passengers in the wee hours of Friday, before it was moved to a cooling pit by the Bomb Disposal Squad.According to airport sources, the suitcase was noticed near a restaurant around 2 am.The Bomb Disposal Squad personnel of the Bureau of Civil Aviation immediately rushed to spot. On opening the suitcase, they found some clothes and an old watch, sources said
Intelligence inputs state that Pakistan-based terrorists could hijack an aircraft to Bangladesh to seek the release of Mohammed Afzal Guru.
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