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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.
IGI developer gets men from China to put up glass wall at new terminal

Tuesday 8 September '09

After importing a glass curtain wall from China, the private developer of IGI Airport will soon get 42 Chinese workers to install it at the under-construction terminal building, T3.
IGI: Alva hurt in mishap on airside, officials blame ‘too much traffic’

Wednesday 2 September '09

As if Delhi’s roads are not nightmarish enough for its drivers, steering on the airside in the city’s airport is also becoming increasingly difficult due to the rising number of vehicles run by airlines, ground-handlers and their sub-contractors, say insiders.
Inflow to Yamuna to be cleaned up at last

Monday 31 August '09

After waiting for the nod from the Ministry of Urban Development for over a year now, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has finally received the technical go-ahead for its ambitious plan of resuscitating the Yamuna’s 22-km stretch in Delhi by constructing interceptor sewers.
Cooking gas ban on, freshly cooked items off airport menu

Friday 28 August '09

Freshly cooked food at restaurants inside the Indira Gandhi International Airport is now a thing of the past.
At IGI, roof gives in to sharp showers

Saturday 22 August '09

Flight operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport had to be shut down for nearly two hours on Friday evening after the afternoon’s heavy downpour that lasted less than thirty minutes.
CISF staff at airport tests positive for H1N1

Wednesday 19 August '09

A security staff member deployed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport tested positive for the H1N1 influenza on Tuesday.
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