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Airport security to get new-age weapons, crack commando team

Thursday 19 November '09

The security force guarding the ‘high threat perception’ zone — Delhi airport — is planning to boost its security measures in and around the area, ahead of the Commonwealth Games.
Pak spy arrest: Police team sent to Lucknow

Monday 16 November '09

Acting on information provided by the alleged spy, who was arrested from the Indira Gandhi International Airport after a lookout notice was issued against him, a team of Delhi Police Special Cell sleuths went to Lucknow to unearth the sequence of events.
IGI streamlines runway use, but fog may change rules

Monday 16 November '09

New runway may be opened to domestic flights in times of low visibility, congestion
Fog back to haunt IGI

Friday 13 November '09

Fog formation and low-visibility conditions have already started affecting flight operations in Delhi.
Fog back to haunt IGI

Friday 13 November '09

Fog formation and low-visibility conditions have already started affecting flight operations in Delhi.
Renuka Dam gets nod, city hopes for water by 2014

Wednesday 11 November '09

The Ministry of Environment and Forests has finally given an environmental clearance to the Rs 2,700-crore Renuka Dam project in Himachal Pradesh — an ambitious project undertaken by the Union government to meet Delhi’s drinking water needs.
Water prices to double, but will ‘still be the lowest in country’

Saturday 7 November '09

The Delhi Jal Board is yet to fix the fresh rates for water and table it before the Delhi Cabinet. Officials in the agency say the tariff will be more than doubled...
GMR consortium completes new Istanbul aiport terminal building

Thursday 5 November '09

The Bangalore-based GMR Group, along with Turkish company Limak and Malaysia Airports Holding Berhard Airports, has built the new airport...
To check losses, DJB turns to discom

Wednesday 4 November '09

After a spree of informal discussions with the Delhi Jal Board, the North Delhi Power Limited — which distributes power in North and Northwest Delhi...
Terminal T3 may miss deadline: GMR chief

Wednesday 4 November '09

The much-awaited inauguration of the Delhi airport’s integrated terminal building, T3 — scheduled for March 2010 — might get delayed.
Jal Board to raise water tariff, decision soon

Tuesday 27 October '09

The Delhi Jal Board will consider a proposal on Tuesday to increase water tariff, linking the revision directly to consumption.
L-G orders drainage masterplan

Saturday 24 October '09

Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna has asked civic agencies and stakeholders to prepare a masterplan for Delhi’s watershed and drainage system.
Offering new lost-and-found service, CISF website records 300 per cent jump in hits

Friday 23 October '09

Since the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) launched the unique utility service of offering air travellers a chance to locate their lost belongings online earlier this month...
S African detained at airport

Tuesday 6 October '09

A South African national was detained late on Monday night at the IGI Airport after the hand held metal detector used for manual frisking of passengers....
AI pilot attacked, harassed me on board: airhostess

Sunday 4 October '09

An airhostess has pressed charges of assault and sexual harassment against the commander and co-pilot of an Air India flight following a mid-air scuffle on board the Sharjah-Lucknow-Delhi flight.
Inside IGI, vehicles on collision course

Sunday 4 October '09

With over 5,500 people working on the airside every day, and 1,671 vehicles plying, driving inside the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport is anything but a breeze.
Their ‘sick’ leave reasons: loose motions, tooth ache, migraine

Thursday 1 October '09

If most Jet Airways pilots cited headache and backache when they reported “sick” during their strike earlier this month, Air India executive...
More visas to China workers ruled out for IGI

Tuesday 29 September '09

The National Coordination Committee of the Cabinet has rejected the IGI Airport developer’s demand for issuing work visas to more than 140 workers from China to fix a glass wall imported from the country, highly placed sources in the Cabinet have told Newsline.
IGI system failure hits exporters

Saturday 26 September '09

Exporters in Delhi are incurring losses over $ 1 million (Rs 5 crore) every day after the Electronic Data Interchange system with the Customs department of the Indira Gandhi International Airport
CISF short-staffed, Jal Board told to ask cops for security net

Friday 25 September '09

After a wait of three years, the Ministry of Home Affairs, which had earlier decided to deploy Central Industrial Security Force...
‘Airport roof had structural flaws’

Wednesday 23 September '09

It was a fault in its structure that made a part of the roof of the new domestic terminal, 1D, of the Indira Gandhi International Airport blow off on August 21 due to strong winds and leak in several places, said a source at the airport.
DJB for stringent tendering process

Tuesday 22 September '09

Having drawn flak for the quality of work it contracted and sub-contracted, the Delhi Jal Board has now decided to make its tendering process more stringent.
Israeli intrusion detection system to secure IGI perimeter

Friday 18 September '09

In view of the upcoming Commonwealth Games next year and the increased need for airtight security measures, the Indira Gandhi International Airport is now in the process of securing its outer periphery to detect and neutralise any possible cases of intrusion.
YSR chopper black box being sent to US aviation agency

Wednesday 16 September '09

Cockpit voice recorder of Bell 430 chopper which crashed on September 2, killing Y S R Reddy and four others, is being sent to National Transportation Safety Board in Washington for forensic test.
Yamuna banks evacuated, no rain in next 3 days

Monday 14 September '09

For the hundreds displaced by the rising levels of Yamuna, the India Meteorological Department has some good news.
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