Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor was on Saturday detained and fined about Rs 60,000 on undeclared branded personal goods he was carrying at the Mumbai International airport, a customs official said.
The government has approved the levy of development fee at Mumbai International Airport. An airport development fee of Rs 100 will be charged from outbound domestic passengers and Rs 600 from international passengers.
The Mumbai Customs Air Intelligence Unit has detained four persons at the Mumbai airport for violating the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act norms as they carried digital phone memory cards worth Rs 52 lakhs.
Billionaire Gautam Adani's Adani group on Monday said it has reached an agreement to acquire GVK group's shareholding and control of Mumbai airport.
There has been no official information about his condition or whereabouts, his sister said.
Before her flight to London, Air India crew member Maithili Patil had made a final, comforting promise to her father, Moreshwar Patil, that she would call him once she reached the city. But the call did not come.
Following the incident at little past 1700 hours, both runways at the airport were shut for a brief period, and one of the runways resumed operations at around 1847 hours, the officials said.
Authorities are carrying out DNA tests to establish the identity of the victims as many bodies were charred beyond recognition or badly damaged in the deadly June 12 crash.
Strangely, a few days after filing the charges, the CBI teams arrived in Hyderabad and Mumbai to raid GVK's offices and found incriminating evidence, a reversal of the normal course of events.
Reader Pranav Patel sent us this picture from Mumbai.
Mumbai airport is the largest gateway for movement of pharma and agro products in the country.
According to Bombay Taximen Union President A L Quadros, as part of modernisation procedure, the Mumbai International Airport Ltd wanted the taximen to move to a new plot near the Sahar police station, but are not giving written assurances as to whether it is a permanent or temporary arrangement.
A possible collision between two aircraft ferrying 220 passengers was averted at the Mumbai airport as the pilots aborted take off at the last minute after allegedly being given the green signal to become airborne from "diagonal" runways simultaneously in Mumbai on Sunday.
"At 9.04 pm yesterday, a Jet Airways flight 9W 616 (Kolkata-Mumbai) while on approach to landing was asked to go around to allow IndiGo Mumbai-Bangalore flight (6E-415) to cross the runway at the intersection point," MIAL said.
Improvement in load factors, coupled with an increase in seat capacity after Jet's slots were allotted to low-cost airlines, has resulted in an increase in daily passenger traffic.
The project cost was pegged at Rs 4,766 crore (Rs 47.66 billion).
The government-controlled City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) has kicked off the tendering process for the over Rs 14,500 crore (Rs 145 billion) international airport project in neighbouring Navi Mumbai.
Of these only 150 attacks were successful, officials said on Monday.
Five companies have submitted resolution plans for Jaiprakash Associates Ltd (JAL), the flagship company of the beleaguered Jaypee group, the company has said in a stock exchange filing. The Adani group, Vedanta, Jindal Steel & Power, Dalmia Bharat, and PSP Projects are the final bidders and the offers range from Rs 10,000 crore to Rs 11,000 crore, said a source close to the development.
The company's comments came a day after Gandhi alleged in Lok Sabha that 'Mumbai airport, was taken away from GVK using agencies such as the CBI and the ED, and was given to Adani by the Government of India'.
Jailed gangster Chhota Rajan's close aide Santosh Mahadeo Sawant was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation as he landed at Mumbai airport from Singapore, after being on the run for 18 years, officials said on Wednesday.
Faced with a funding gap of Rs 2,000 crore (Rs 2 billion), Mumbai Airport, the country's busiest, has sought government approval to levy an airport development fee to compensate the gap, a top airport official said.
The airport operator removed the SpiceJet aircraft which had skidded after landing amid heavy rains on Tuesday.
Charters, Udan flights choking Mumbai airport; MIAL may shift general aviation to Navi Mumbai once the airport is ready
The airport security received the first threat on Monday night. This was followed by three more phone calls on Tuesday reiterating that the airport will be blown up in 24 hours.
The Mumbai airport's new integrated terminal will open on January 15. Air India's Newark-Mumbai flight will be the first to arrive at the new terminal.
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Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd has promised "golden handshake" for the estimated 60,000 families living in the slums around the airport, who will be displaced for the airport's expansion.
Air India has cancelled eight flights, including four international services, on Friday due to enhanced maintenance and operational reasons, the airline said.
As part of the exercise, preventive checks at different airport functions have been carried out and the airport has ensured that diesel generator sets are in place to provide uninterrupted power supply, the MIAL said in a release.
Any rise in charges has to be approved by the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority, which is examining MIAL's proposal.
Bipasha Basu was detained by the Mumbai customs department for possessing undeclared jewellery. The actress has now been released.
Delhi's Indira Gandhi airport and Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji airport handle more than half of India's air traffic.
Earlier in the day, state home minister Anil Deshmukh, also of the NCP, said that it was "extremely ill-advised" to reopen airports in red zone amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The GVK Group-run Mumbai International Airport Ltd is upgrading the airport at an estimated cost of Rs 12,380 crore.
Reader Jagannathan Satya has sent us this photograph of the star.
At least 12 flights have been cancelled and four rescheduled at the Mumbai International Airport, due to six-hour runway closure starting on Tuesday.
A new book reveals former Congress MP Amarinder Singh's mission to arrange a meeting between Rajiv Gandhi and Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale in the 1980s, along with other anecdotes.
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