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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
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Topic: Airports

Airports of the world are fast becoming ghost towns

The sudden collapse of air travel triggered by c and customer fears of coronavirus is having a severe impact on airport cash flows.

Karnataka wants to rename 5 airports after local historical heroes, asks for suggestions

The Bengaluru airport is already named after the 15-century Kempegowda, who is believed to be the founder of the Karnataka capital.

Modi govt plans to open 100 more airports by 2024

Modi govt proposal includes starting 1,000 new routes connecting smaller cities and launching a plane-lease financing business in the country.

India spent Rs 36 crore in 2018-19 on 27 airports where not a single flight takes off

Govt says it’s trying to start operations at these airports using market-based bidding under UDAN scheme, has planned parking charge concessions for aircraft.

These are the reasons why Indian planes are skidding off runways, says DGCA audit

The DGCA audit report comes just a month after five Indian aircraft veered off runways within a span of three days.

209 Jet Airways slots lying unused at 31 airports: Aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri

Modi government had decided to temporarily allocate the slots as well as international flying rights of Jet Airways to other airlines.

American airports are opening up to terminal tourists who just want to hang out

In a bit of a return to pre-9/11 days, US airports are allowing people beyond security checkpoints so they can meet arriving relatives or just hang out.

Indian airports to now get body scanners as govt steps up security measures

The Ministry of Civil Aviation has directed operators of all hypersensitive and sensitive airports to install the body scanners by March 2020.

9 Indian airports ordered shut earlier will now resume operations, says DGCA

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation had issued a notice to airmen saying that flight operations in 9 airports in north India will remain shut for three months.

Pakistan suspends flights in major airports in Punjab & Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province

Geo News reported that all local and international flights from Lahore, Multan, Faisalabad, Sialkot and Islamabad airports were suspended till further orders.

On Camera

Dhankhar’s resignation: How Modi-Shah’s ‘capable’ BJP has served another strong message to RSS

One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.