Agartala: Tripura CM Manik Saha reiterated the demand for a direct flight between Agartala and Chittagong (Bangladesh), fast-tracking the Badarpur–Sabroom double-line railway project, and granting a 40% rebate on natural gas prices while addressing 73rd plenary session of NEC in Shillong on Thursday.He also advocated for the establishment of an IT park and urged an…
Jalpaiguri: Four years after the Centre sanctioned a civil airport at Hasimara under the UDAN scheme, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari has cleared land acquisition to facilitate civilian flight operations from Hasimara Airport.The Airports Authority of India requires 37.74 acres to allow A320 aircraft operations at the strategic IAF base. Currently, north Bengal relies heavily on…
Jalpaiguri: Four years after the Centre sanctioned a civil airport at Hasimara under the UDAN scheme, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari has cleared land acquisition to facilitate civilian flight operations from Hasimara Airport.The Airports Authority of India requires 37.74 acres to allow A320 aircraft operations at the strategic IAF base. Currently, north Bengal relies heavily on…
Patna: International flight operations from Darbhanga airport are likely to commence in Nov this year, Rajya Sabha member and JD(U) national working president Sanjay Kumar Jha said on Wednesday after meeting Union civil aviation minister K Ram Mohan Naidu in New Delhi.Jha said he submitted a letter to the minister, urging him to expedite the…
At time when India’s energy and defence ties with Russia have emerged as a major irritant in the India-US relationship, government-owned Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) has inked a memorandum of understanding with Russia’s Public Joint Stock Company United Aircraft Corporation (PJSC-UAC) — a company sanctioned by the US — to manufacture the latter’s SJ-100 regional jets…
