Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri says Indian and UK carriers will each operate 15 flights per week to & from Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad until 23 January.
Civil Aviation minister Hardeep Puri said the flights, which were earlier suspended till 31 December, will resume in a 'strictly regulated' manner thereafter.
Hardeep Singh Puri had last week suspended all flights between Britain and India from 23 December to 31 December over the mutated variant of the virus.
At a press conference, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Puri said while he was all for foreign carriers there should be some parity under the regulated air bubble arrangements.
Delhi International Airport Limited said it will set aside the batch of the indelible ink that caused allergic reaction, adding that it has raised the issued with Delhi authorities.
Aviation minister Hardeep Puri said ‘AirAsia’s shop is anyway shutting down’, but his office later clarified that his comments were taken out of context.
The last time this matter flared up was when Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, in a very similar directive in April, called for the relocation of stray dogs in the capital.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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