Wary of any controversy, the civil aviation ministry has decided to wait for a new generation of “non-intrusive” body scanners — which will be tested at airports across the United States from January

The Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is analysing feedback that some of the fares in the tariff charts put up by airlines on their websites are exorbitant and need to be scaled down, top g

The Army has expressed the view that counter-terror operations in J&K could be severely hit if the J&K government insists on going ahead with a move to de-notify and remove districts like Srinagar from the purview of the Disturbed Areas Act (DAA). The Army is understood to have conveyed its view to the Union and state governments on the matter.

It was a day when the political fate of three chief ministers was decided.

A key expert on the Civil Aviation Safety Advisory Council, formed by the Centre after the Mangalore aircrash, has a tarnished record. Capt. A. Ranganathan, a member of the council who is expected to advise the civil aviation ministry on safety issues, was blamed by his former employer SpiceJet for “exhibiting poor situational awareness

Pilot error caused by “sleep inertia” on the part of the Serbian-born British commander Capt. Zslatko Glucika was the cause of the crash of Air India Express’ flight IX-812 at the Mangalore airport on May 22 this year that led to the death of 158 persons on board, top sources said, while citing the findings of the report of the government-appointed court of inquiry into the crash.

In the wake of the alleged terror threat of US-bound parcel bombs from Yemen, the civil aviation ministry has intensified security at cargo terminals across the country, including setting up of 15 feet-high barbed wire fences within the cargo terminals for segregation of cargo subjected to security screening and cargo yet to be screened.

The defence ministry is all set to order an inquiry into yet another suspected land scam involving acquisition of disputed land at Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and Faridabad, Haryana, around a decade back th

Strong complaints against the Air India management’s style of functioning surfaced at a meeting that four independent directors of the state-owned airline had Monday with Mr T.K.A. Nair, principal secretary to the Prime Minister.

Strong complaints against the style of functioning of the Air India management surfaced at a meeting on Monday that four independent directors on the board of the state-owned carrier had with the principal secretary to the Prime Minister. Some of the independent directors complained to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) that their advice