A senior official told PTI that the move would go a long way in improving safety on the airside. In efforts to curb ground incidents, a checklist has been prepared by the DGCA to benchmark safety standards on the airside of the airport.
Seven people, including four women, were arrested for allegedly duping around 1,000 people to the tune of Rs 2.5 crore on the pretext of providing them jobs in the Airports Authority of India (AAI), police said on Friday.
The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (Amendment) Bill, 2019 that seeks to raise the threshold for an airport to qualify as 'major airport' and hence reducing the tariff-fixing power of airport regulator to fewer airports.
The AAI owns and manages around 100 operational airports across the country. However, it also has 26 non-operational airports with it that have no flight operations currently.
"Walk-through metal detectors and hand-held metal detectors cannot detect non-metallic weapons and explosives. Body scanners detect both metallic and non-metallic items concealed on the body," states the circular sent by Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) to all airports in April this year.
Earlier on Wednesday, the DGCA issued a notice to airmen (NOTAM), saying flight operations at the airports in Srinagar, Jammu, Leh, Pathankot, Amritsar, Shimla, Kangra, Kullu Manali and Pithoragarh will remain shut from February 27 to May 27.
The plan was announced on Monday to test CT scanners for carry-on bags.
Aviation minister Jayant Sinha today denied that "VIP culture" was prevalent at Indian airports, saying that leeway given is only for security reasons.
Social media trends and data analytics will be used for the first time in ensuring and monitoring the security at the country's most vital assets such as airports and nuclear and aerospace installations.
Ten more airports in the country, including Pune and Ranchi, are all set to do away with the practise of stamping domestic passengers’ hand baggage tags
Department of Consumer Affairs directing companies against charging different prices for identical products
Handbag stamping for domestic flyers at Chennai, Jaipur, Lucknow, Patna, Trivandrum and Guwahati airports will end from June 1
Airports and exit points have been alerted about the possibilities of rape accused Uttar Pradesh minister Gayatri Prajapati trying to flee abroad. A Letter of Cancellation (LC) will soon be opened against him and all
After receiving 'good feedback' from a pilot project, the central government is working on putting in place biometric systems for security checks at airports in India.
The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) today initiated doing away with the security stamping procedure for hand baggage at flights at select airports. As per the new norms, passengers will not need the tags at
In a move to make air travel hassle-free, the CISF has announced that passengers at six major airports in the country will not be required to get the security stamp on the tags on their hand baggages.
following cross-LoC surgical strikes by the Indian army in PoK, high alerts have been issued to civil airports in western states and important ones like those in Delhi, Hyderabad and Bengaluru.
New Delhi: A holiday is meant to relax you, but the endless planning, long flights, and jet lag leave you restless -- no wonder then that many people feel they need a holiday to recover
New Delhi: The Centre is considering to put in place a policy on naming of new airports in the country, under which they will known after the city's name and not certain personalities or icons
New Delhi: With high alert being sounded across the country in view of forthcoming Republic Day celebrations, security agencies have stepped up vigil at sensitive airports in the country entailing passengers to go through a
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