Flight operations at Delhi Airport were suspended for 26 minutes on Thursday evening due to extremely heavy rains accompanied by strong winds in the city, senior airport officials said.
Jayesh Patel, a resident of Ahmedabad, coloured his hair and beard white, arrived on a wheelchair to board a flight to New York from the Indira Gandhi International Airport on Sunday.
"On Thursday, Sayantan Ghosh, Duty Manager of Vistara Airlines, lodged a complaint, alleging that Kapoor travelled by the Vistara flight from Delhi to Srinagar and returned to the national capital by impersonating one Sachin Gupta. He was caught based on his suspicious activities at the IGI Airport," said Sanjay Bhatia, Deputy Commissioner of Police (IGI Airport).
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), the enforcement arm of the Central Board of Indirect Tax and Customs (CBIC), on Wednesday, intercepted the five passengers, all from Taiwan, at the Terminal 3 of IGI Airport, they said.
A bench of Justices Manmohan and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal asked both sides to file their submissions and listed the matter for hearing on September 3. The court declined to give an earlier date, saying the matter will take time and "it is not going to happen overnight".
The incident was reported at around 8:21 pm after flight Alliance Air - 9643, from Delhi to Jaipur developed landing gear problems and returned to Delhi Airport.
A man informed the Delhi Police about her 'fidayeen' wife and claimed that she was on her way to the Delhi airport to set off a bomb. But wait, there's a twist. Let's rewind.
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Delhi airport receives hoax bomb call, normal operations restored after checking
Authorities at the Delhi Airport had received a bomb threat call following which the flight operations were affected at the IGI Airport. The flight operations were later resumed after the bomb threat was found to be a hoax, following an extensive search operation.
The 'Phase 3A' infrastructure expansion - which includes the construction of the fourth runway, expansion of T1 apron area and development of dual elevated Eastern Cross Taxiway - would be completed by June 2022, the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) said in the statement.
The man, holding a passport of the United States of America, was stopped and questioned, as exiting the terminal area is not allowed under normal circumstances, he said.
The Narcotics Control Bureau did not disclose the identity of the man but said he arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here via the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on July 10 and was intercepted by the sleuths of the NCB's Delhi zonal unit on the basis of prior information.
The Delhi airport saw some anxious moments on Saturday after a packet, containing a gold bar, kept unclaimed in a bathroom triggered a bomb scare, officials said.
The Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL), which manages Indira Gandhi International Airport, on Monday announced that it has become the first airport in the country to operationalise a dedicated Transshipment Excellence Centre (TEC) to simplify and expedite the procedure for transfer of transshipment cargo.
Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Saturday inaugurated C-ATFM in Delhi and said it was an "absolute necessity" to ensure higher standards of safety.
Two chinese men were roaming in the terminal area suspiciously and attempting to leave the Terminal-3 (T3) building of the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport, the official said.
A Canadian cricketer is among four people arrested by Customs Department sleuths at the Delhi airport for allegedly trying to smuggle into the country gold worth Rs 1.7 crore, officials said Tuesday.
Two men have been arrested by customs officials at Delhi airport for allegedly smuggling gold and forex worth lakhs by concealing them in rectum in two separate cases, officials said Monday.
A US-bound passenger was apprehended by CISF personnel at the Delhi airport for allegedly carrying 25 bullets in his baggage, an official said Monday.
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