A total of 1,045 Indians returned home in three batches from strife-torn Libya on Wednesday by Air India special flights.
A 61-year-old American national, identified as Winston Marshal Carmichael, was detained at the Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi on late on Wednesday night minutes before he was to board a Qatar-bound flight after a knife was found in his hand baggage.
Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur, who was at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport when the body of Ranjodh Singh was brought back to the country, said something positive is expected from the investigations and issued a second advisory to Indian students discouraging them from going to Australia for studies.
The runways are expected to be made operational for the larger aircraft before the Commonwealth Games in October.
After four days of disruption due to fog, flight operations were normal at the Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi on Monday morning. "Though there was shallow fog in the morning, it did not pose any problem in smooth operations as the runway visibility remained over 1,500 metres for the main runway while it was over 1,200 metres for the new runway," an airport official said.
Katara's counsel submitted before the court that no money was ever demanded by the lawmaker and it was his secretary Rajinder Kumar Ganpa who had got the alleged fake passport.
The terminal, built at a cost of Rs 8,996 crore, has four boarding piers with 48 boarding gates and 78 aerobridges.
The police arrested a man from the Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi for allegedly threatening to hijack a Mumbai-bound Jet Airways fight after he and his companions entered into an argument with the crew in an "inebriated condition".
Dense fog since Friday night brought down visibility in Delhi to about 10 metres.
'In spirit, and more importantly in its DNA, this is the Congress Inc, or Incorporated, a family-run entity,' notes Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
A heavy blanket of fog enveloped the national capital for the second consecutive day on Monday, hitting air and rail services badly.Ten flights have been cancelled, 20 have been delayed and 23 diverted so far. The general visibility at the airport and the city is less than 50 metres.The visibility on Runway 28 at Terminal 3 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport is 200 metres while at Runway 29 it has plunged down to just 125 metres.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a most-wanted terrorist, carrying a reward of Rs 5 lakhs, from the Delhi airport three years after he was declared an absconder and the Interpol issued a red corner notice against him.
Immigration authorities at the airport in New Delhi stopped yet another Kashmiri journalist from travelling abroad, citing restrictions imposed by the Jammu and Kashmir police, officials said on Wednesday.
Prachanda will hold wide-ranging talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday, particularly reviewing the 1950 bilateral Trade and Transit Treaty, which the Nepalese leader wants to be replaced by a new one.
Pankhuri Jha, who has just started tenth grade at Hightstown, New Jersey, writes about her journey this year to India and her experience of working with street children in Delhi.
Sources in Air India said that the AI call centre, located at Udyog Vihar in Gurgaon, received an e-mail on Sunday threatening that the International airport would be blown up on January 12. Though sources in the Air India said that it was a non specific threat, the police have tightened security in and around the international airport as a precautionary measure. The Gurgaon police have instituted a team from the Cyber Crime Department to investigate the origin of the e-mail.
Most of the students, PTI spoke to soon after their arrival, said they had followed the advisory issued by the Indian embassy in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
On his maiden foreign tour, Bhutan's first Prime Minister Lyonchen Jigmi Y Thinley arrived in New Delhi on Monday for a visit, during which the two sides will look at ways to boost their friendly relations further.Thinley will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday on a wide range of issues, with particular focus on enhancing ties in economic and business fields.He will also meet President Pratibha Patil, Vice President Hamid Ansari.
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DDFS is a joint venture among Delhi International Airport Ltd, Indian Duty Free Services and Dublin-based Aer Rianta International.
Burney, who was the human rights minister in the interim government in Pakistan, was deported back from the Indira Gandhi International Airport by an Emirates Airways flight at Airways flight at around 2030 hours because of a "look-out" notice against him, they said. It was, however, not immediately clear who had issued the notice against him and in what connection.
Delhi came to a standstill on Friday evening as heavy rains accompanied by winds lashed the city, inundating several low-lying areas and leading to huge traffic jams and collapse of a portion of a terminal building at the Indira Gandhi International airport here.
Speaking to ANI, Deepa Malik, the president of Paralympic Committee of India (PCI), said that the Indian team looks in great shape.
Domestic passengers using the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi will be able to use the new Terminal-3 only from October 28, a few weeks after the Commonwealth Games are over. The Games will conclude on October 14.
Ahmadinejad, who is the first Iranian Head of State to undertake a visit New Delhi in five years, was received warmly by Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. Ahmadinejad, who arrived in New Delhi from Sri Lanka, will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on a wide range of issues during his five-hour visit.
Reacting to former President APJ Abdul Kalam's statement that he has not received any communication from Continental Airlines, the United States-based airline on Thursday said that they want to apologise personally to him."Since he is not in Delhi, we are waiting for him to return so that we can apologise personally to Dr Kalam," the airline said.The development came shortly after Dr Kalam said that he is yet to receive an apology from the airlines, for frisking him.
"Not only the preliminary inquiry has been ordered but we also have a preliminary report on the basis of which Continental Airlines has been issued a show cause notice why action for wilful violation should not be taken," Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
Government plans a new look for the Indira Gandhi International Airport before the Commonwealth Games in 2010, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
PIA is to operate a twice-a-week service between Karachi and Mumbai on Mondays and Fridays while Indian Airlines, which is to begin its services from January 9, is likely to fly on Tuesdays and Fridays.
This instruction is a temporary measure and shall be in force till March 31 and will be reviewed subsequently.
The flight landed around 9.45 am at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi.
There were inordinate delays during baggage check which led to long queues and flight delays.
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New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport may run into rough weather with one of the three runways closing down for six months from April 2.
Students rescued from Ukraine face an uncertain future due to their inability to complete their education and also run the risk of falling into a debt trap as they may find it difficult to repay education loans, Congress MP Kodikunnil Suresh said.
The fans, numbering in hundreds, whistled and broke into a huge applause as Sachin Tendulkar stepped out of the team bus at the Delhi airport.
Private airlines that have been told to train their pilots, so that they can land even in thick foggy conditions, are still hesitant to obey the government's ultimatum.
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