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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
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Topic: Aviation

With less than 300 choppers, India’s helicopter market dwindles, industry wants better rules

India's helicopter potential in tourism, mining, corporate travel and medical services remains severely underused.

Flights to get costlier as lower limit on domestic airfare raised by 5%, capacity still at 80%

Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri says decision taken keeping in view the 'continuous rise' in prices of aviation turbine fuel.

More staff, planes & routes: Vistara, SpiceJet, IndiGo are slowly rebuilding their air ‘power’

Airlines were forced to resort to layoffs, salary cuts and leave without pay after the Covid pandemic hit. Nearly a year since, it is seeing a growth in demand.

Indigo flight to Lucknow makes emergency landing in Karachi after passenger falls ill

A Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority official said landing permission was granted to IndiGo flight 6E1412 after an elderly passenger fell ill and later passed away.

UK is building the world’s first airport for flying cars

It might sound like something out of a science-fiction film, but this airport is actually being readied for November 2021 near the UK city of Coventry.

B-1B Lancer, the long-range US bomber with 50 world records that will ‘fly-by’ at Aero India

The B-1B is the backbone of America's long-range bomber force and can deliver massive quantities of precision and non-precision weapons against adversaries.

Traveller quarantines aren’t going away soon, can’t rely on vaccines or immunity passports

We do not know enough about the markers that signify protection from Covid-19 when it comes to transmission. More answers are needed to avoid creating a false sense of security.

GoAir pilots shut down Airbus A320neo engine mid-air even after turbine problem was fixed

GoAir’s Hyderabad-Ahmedabad flight landed safely using other engine on Sept 19. Both engines’ turbines had been modified following repeated glitches.

Global aviation job losses could touch 5 lakh by the end of the year

More than 50,000 positions were eliminated across the sector in August, with the trend line suggesting that there are many more to come.

Vietnam, Gulf airlines ground Pakistani pilots after minister says 262 hold fake licence

PIA also grounds 141 pilots after Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan tells parliament Pakistan’s 30% pilots were found to have obtained licence through unfair means.

On Camera

Sudan shows what happens when the world is happy to let mass killers rule

Fourteen million refugees, and 25 million facing acute hunger, should be reason enough for the world to dismantle the dystopia in Sudan — even if the sadism of its rulers is not.

Kerala’s silent startup surge—work near home, smooth roads, fast internet & diaspora engagement

Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.

India & Israel ink agreement to share, co-develop & co-produce advanced defence tech

Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday. 

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.