When Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, Union law minister Veerappa Moily, and Airports Authority of India chairman V.P. Agarwal stood proudly at Mangalore on May 15 for inauguration of the airport's new terminal, they had no idea that disaster was a week away.

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has abandoned its plans to build a civilian greenfield airport at Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh.
AAI was earlier planning to construct an airport with a “table-top” runway at Tawang in view of the mountainous terrain of the region but the plan has been scrapped after t

Further expansion of flight operations and aircraft fleet of airlines may now be stopped if the DGCA finds that the financial condition of the airline is affecting air-safety standards.

The director-general of the National Cadet Corps, Lt. Gen. R.K. Karwal, has asked Commonwealth Games organising committee chief Suresh Kalmadi to reconsider his decision to do away with taking the help of National Cadet Corps cadets from outside the Delhi region “lest it become a demotivating factor.”

The National Cadet Corps, headed by a lieutenant-general, has criticised Commonwealth Games organising committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi for his “belated” decision to not seek the help of 2,500 NCC cadets from outside Delhi for the October event. The NCC said this would “demoralise” the organisation and its cadets from

The Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL) at Mysore — which makes ready-to-eat packaged food for the armed forces — is likely to be one of the DRDO laboratories that could be hived off from the DRDO and merged

Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC) chairman Suresh Kalmadi was snubbed by the ministry of defence (MoD) recently when he asked for the use of defence aircraft for movement of the Queen’s Baton Relay in India.

May 11: The government has proposed to induct a mammoth 338 air traffic controllers (ATCs) for training from June 1 this year to tackle the shortfall of ATCs which stands at about 400.