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Sunday, March 15, 2026
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Topic: International airport

Test flight successful, Noida International Airport expected to be operational by April next year

The greenfield airport at Jewar will be Uttar Pradesh's 5th international airport, joining Lucknow, Varanasi, Ayodhya, and Kushinagar.

Cabinet approves Rs 2,870 cr for Varanasi airport’s development, to get new terminal, expanded runway

Expansion of the international airport, which will be funded by Airports Authority of India’s internal resources, will more than double airport's capacity to 99 lakh passengers per yr.

Highway, rail & airport expansions to continue but no big-ticket infra announcements in BJP manifesto

2024 manifesto also promises feasibility studies for new bullet train corridors and overall transformation of the railways sector.

Tests on at international airports, says Health Minister, with ‘eye on global Covid situation’

Minister Mansukh Mandaviya says states have been advised to enforce Covid protocols, increase genome-sequencing to catch the new variant on time.

2% international travellers to be randomly tested for Covid-19, says health minister Mandaviya

The Centre earlier this week asked states to keep a sharp lookout for any new variants of the coronavirus & urged people to wear masks in crowded areas.

Airlines are going to need big data to recover from Covid

Airlines’ debts have grown to unimaginable levels over the pandemic, and must ultimately be paid down. Reducing that leverage will require growing revenues faster than ever before.

US to lift travel ban on vaccinated foreign travellers from 8 November

Under new rules, vaccinated travellers will need a negative Covid test 72 hours prior to boarding a flight to US and will also have to share contact tracing information.

After two decades of painful planning, Mumbai’s second airport is ready for takeoff

PM Narendra Modi to lay foundation stone for the project Sunday. New airport likely to be completed by 2021, three years after existing airport gets saturated.

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Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.