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Friday, November 7, 2025
TopicAirports Authority of India

Topic: Airports Authority of India

‘Can the blind see?’ In Delhi High Court’s landmark order, a big win for disability rights

Although AAI’s 2023 ad identified these posts as suitable for persons with visual impairments, petitioners’ candidatures were cancelled based on clinical tests.

Held for Rs 232 cr ‘embezzlement’ at Dehradun airport, AAI manager booked for similar ‘fraud’ in Jaipur

CBI had arrested the accused 2 weeks back in Dehradun airport case. At Jaipur airport, where he was last posted, he allegedly siphoned off Rs 18.12 cr in similar fashion.

AAI to revive defunct Kailashahar airport in Tripura after 30 years

The airport played a key role during the India-Pakistan war in 1971 as the Indian Air Force carried out missions and surveillance, another official said.

Indian airports currently lag behind global ones in a key revenue stream, but change is in the air

India’s major airports earned average of $4.3/customer in 2023-24 from non-aeronautical sources, much lesser than $7.2-15.9 of global ones, according to rating agency ICRA.

Mission ISHAN, India’s push for ‘one nation, one airspace’, will benefit airlines & passengers alike

Unifying India's four airspace regions into one, controlled from Nagpur, is expected to make air traffic operations more efficient, safer and seamless, enabling it to handle more capacity.

BJP falls short of 2019 poll promise of ‘doubling number of airports’, but regional traffic growing

BJP manifesto pledged over 200 functional airports by 2024, but only 135 are operational. However, there's a shift away from major airports as tier-2 & tier-3 cities see high air traffic.

This is how Modi govt plans to make flying to Northeast a smoother & impressive experience

From indoor rainforest and mini-city within airport and huge improvement in infrastructure, AAI is working to give airports in Manipur, Tripura, Assam a complete face-lift by 2023.

Navi Mumbai airport, hit by lockdown & funds crisis, could be ready with one runway in 2023

The Rs 16,000-crore airport is touted to be one of the world’s largest greenfield airports with two parallel runways. The first phase involves operationalising one of the two runways.

From medical supplies in lockdown to vaccine delivery now, this PSU is steering Covid relief

AAI Cargo Logistics and Allied Services will ensure vaccine shipments move quickly in and out of Pune airport to the designated 41 airports finalised for delivery of vaccines. 

Kerala HC dismisses pleas against leasing out Thiruvananthapuram airport to Adani group

The bench rejected arguments by the LDF government & others saying there was no valid ground to interfere with the Centre's policy decision.

On Camera

Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

Vodafone Idea AGR case, explained: SC breather to cash-strapped telco & what it means for industry

Telecom industry keeping close tabs on the case. Government is single largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea, at 49 percent.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.