New Delhi: Passengers travelling out of Delhi and Mumbai airports would no longer have to pay Airport Development Fee (ADF) with the Supreme Court on Tuesday quashing the levy which has yielded about Rupees 2,500 crore in two years. Hearing an appeal against the Delhi High Court's order which had upheld levying of ADF, a bench of Justices Cyriac Joseph and A K Patnaik set aside the policy of airport...
04:30 PM, Apr 26, 2011
Mumbai/Panaji: Goa's controversial Education Minister, Atanasio Babush Monserrate, was questioned for over six hours by the Customs Department in Mumbai on Saturday. After Monserrate failed to explain why he was carrying about Rs 25 lakh worth unaccounted cash, a case was registered against him under the Customs and the Foreign Exchange Management Act. Monserrate, a member of the Congress party, was caught with the cash last week at the Mumbai...
01:02 PM, Apr 09, 2011
Goa state minister Babush Monserrate is caught in a new controversy. This time, for being held at the Mumbai airport with foreign exchange over and above the legal limit. ...
09:31 AM, Apr 07, 2011
New Delhi: Goa state minister Babush Monserrate is caught in a new controversy. This time, for being held at the Mumbai airport with foreign exchange over and above the legal limit. Controversies are not new for this Monserrate. With 13 criminal cases against him, including one of attacking a police station, Monserrate is in the eye of another storm. He was detained at the Mumbai Airport just before boarding a...
08:29 AM, Apr 07, 2011
Mumbai: Goa Education Minister Atanasio (Babush) Monserrate was detained on Saturday, at Mumbai airport. He was caught with huge amounts of Indian and foreign currency beyond permitted limits for passengers traveling abroad and was about to board a flight to Dubai. Monserrate was carrying cash worth Rs 25 lakh approximately in Indian currency and foreign currency worth Rs 1 crore approximately. Monserrate's elder son Rohit was arrested in 2009 for...
10:48 AM, Apr 02, 2011
Mumbai: Plans by Airports Authority of India to decongest the busy Mumbai airport by moving all helicopter operations to the nearby Juhu airport have hit a roadblock. With helicopter operations as well as fixed wing operations moving here, serious questions are being raised about this airport's ability to cope with increased traffic and security considerations. The Rotary Wing Society of India says serious objections they had raised to Juhu airport...
11:29 AM, Jan 12, 2011
Mumbai: The Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai has been put on high alert for a suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist Mahfooz Alam. A lookout notice has been issued against Alam as Mumbai Police fear that he would try to ecscape from the city. Alam is one of the four suspected terrorists believed to have entered the city right before Christmas. The Mumbai Police have already released the sketch of one...
11:13 AM, Dec 27, 2010
A system to monitor ground traffic at the airport and also crucial to avert near misses is all set to be commissioned. ...
12:29 PM, Dec 17, 2010
Mumbai: Mumbai is all set to have a new airport as the Environment Ministry gave a green signal to the Navi Mumbai airport project. However, the question of rehabilitating 15000 villagers from the site has run into some turbulence. While the residents of Waghiwali village carry on with their daily tasks, there is an air of uncertainty in the village. Waghiwali is one of the 10 villages that will make...
09:44 AM, Dec 12, 2010
Mumbai: The new international airport at Navi Mumbai has been given a go-ahead after a compromise between the Environment and Civil Aviation ministries and City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra Ltd (CIDCO). Announcing the clearance for the airport, Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said that River Gadhi would not be diverted to make way for the airport and added that 161 hectares of mangroves would fall under Navi Mumbai...
03:55 PM, Nov 22, 2010
Mumbai: Jetlite passengers at Indore airport were made to wait for 12 hours after their 8.30pm flight developed a technical snag. Even as airline officials dithered over giving clear instruction on alternate arrangements, passengers alleged that a CISF commandant turned off the air-conditioning at the terminal in order to try and get them to leave. Respite came at 3am when JetLite officials offered them accommodation and arranged to get another...
08:51 PM, Nov 16, 2010
The main runaway of the Mumbai airport has been partially shut down between 9:00 am to 5:00 PM everyday, thereby delay flights both to and from the city. On-ground congestion due to the construction work on the tarmac here, coupled with the fact that the rapid exit taxiways are not in use when the main runway is closed, are leading to a cascading effect of delays both to and from ...
01:09 PM, Nov 16, 2010
The main runaway of the Mumbai airport has been partially shut down between 9:00 am to 5:00 PM everyday, thereby delay flights both to and from the city. On-ground congestion due to the construction work on the tarmac here, coupled with the fact that the rapid exit taxiways are not in use when the main runway is closed, are leading to a cascading effect of delays both to and from ...
01:09 PM, Nov 16, 2010
Mumbai: A Delta Airlines flight from Amsterdam with 244 passengers onboard made an emergency landing at the Mumbai airport following a bomb scare. The flight made the emergency landing after Delta staff in Amsterdam alerted authorities of suspicious material in the cargo hold of the aircraft. The flight was scheduled to land at Mumbai's the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport at 11.20 pm but made an emergency landing 20 minutes earlier....
08:14 AM, Nov 05, 2010
Mumbai: The agony continues for Air India passengers as flights get delayed. There were protests at Mumbai airport by angry passengers on Wednesday night after nearly 200 passengers of a Frankfurt-Mumbai flight were stranded for almost 10 hours at Delhi airport after their flight was diverted there. The passengers allege they were not informed about the change in flight plan. "We were told that flight will leave in five minutes....
12:34 PM, Nov 04, 2010
New Delhi: Air India continues to be in the news for the wrong reasons. An acute shortage of ground handling staff has disrupted flight operations at many airports in the country. The disruption in flight operations happened after Air India transferred 11 of its domestic arrivals to Delhi's new international terminal There were protests in Patna, Mumbai and Delhi over delayed Air India flights. Passengers were angry with inordinate delays...
03:25 PM, Nov 03, 2010
In a major scare at Mumbai airport, the wing of a Jet Airways aircraft brushed against the tail fin of a Kingfisher plane just as it was pushing back for takeoff in the wee hours of Saturday morning. As the left-wing of Muscat-bound Jet flight grazed the Kingfisher tail fin adjacent to it in the parking bay, an emergency was declared at the airport. There were no passengers or crew ...
09:39 PM, Oct 23, 2010
Mumbai: There is hope for the Navi Mumbai Airport. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN has indicated for the first time that the stalemate over the controversial project site may soon end. Jairam said the Maharashtra government and CIDCO have agreed to address most of the Environmental Ministry's concerns. CIDCO had initially resisted any changes in the original plan which threatened to destroy 400 acres of mangroves. However,...
08:23 PM, Oct 09, 2010
The expert committee on environment asked for 3 alternative sites to be looked into. CNN-IBN has accessed the minutes of the meeting held last week. ...
11:30 PM, Sep 29, 2010
