Landing in the UAE? Here’s how to skip the long immigration queueTo avoid long immigration queues in the UAE, especially during peak travel in August, travellers can leverage technology-based services. Th...
14 Aug, 2025, 10.52 AM IST
Manipur tightens border vigil to curb influx of illegal migrants amid regional unrestManipur is on high alert. The home department directs officials to prevent illegal border crossings. This is due to unrest in neighboring c...
23 Jul, 2025, 08.48 PM IST
Faster immigration clearance programme in 7 more airports from Jan 16; check details hereA fast-track immigration process for pre-verified Indian nationals and OCI cardholders will be introduced at seven major airports from Thur...
15 Jan, 2025, 03.24 PM IST
With 4 mn users, Digi Yatra will be expanded to 15 new airportsInitially, Digi Yatra was started in three cities in Delhi, Bengaluru, and Varanasi, later it expanded its footprint across major airports ...
13 Jul, 2024, 12.52 PM IST
Special programme to fast-track immigration services launched; All you need to knowThe FTI-TTP will be launched at 21 major airports in the country. In the first phase, along with the Delhi airport, it will be launched at ...
22 Jun, 2024, 07.27 PM IST
Mumbai airport enhances passenger processing capacity, to deploy AI-enabled camerasMumbai airport has enhanced its processing capacity to about 8,000 passengers per hour and reduced wait times to under a minute with expand...
11 Jun, 2024, 04.24 PM IST
IATA looking at experience of India, other countries for standards on contactless process at airportsIATA is a grouping of around 300 airlines, including various Indian carriers, and its members account for about 83 per cent of the global a...
07 Dec, 2022, 06.01 PM IST
Bangalore Airport extends biometric-based self-boarding facility to AirAsia IndiaDigiYatra facility, which is an initiative of the civil aviation ministry and the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS), seeks to minimi...
03 Aug, 2020, 05.46 PM IST
Soon, say bye bye to boarding passes, long queues at airportThe‘Digi Yatra’ project hopes to save your time by enabling paperless travel, helping avoid identity checks at multiple points.
21 May, 2019, 12.03 PM IST
AAI chooses 3 airports for biometric-enabled boarding process projectThe biometric access system project would be carried out on a pilot basis at the three airports.
22 Mar, 2018, 06.21 PM IST
Bengaluru airport to become India’s first fully Aadhaar-enabled by 2018BIAL executive director and president Hari Marar said the new move will speed up the validation process and provide a significant increase ...
08 Oct, 2017, 12.11 PM IST
Jet Airways warns action against employees if found 'misusing' passesAirport entry passes-- issued by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS)-- allow airport access to airline crew, ground staff, enginee...
12 Jun, 2017, 10.19 PM IST
Roll out of biometric entry passes at airports delayed againThe government has decided to provide biometric entry passes for employees of airlines, airports, ground handling agencies and other indivi...
11 Jun, 2017, 05.32 PM IST
Your flight boarding pass will not be torn anymoreThe decision has been taken at a time when the government is working on facilitating entry into airports with the help of mobile phone and ...
04 May, 2017, 11.57 PM IST
Aadhaar-based ID cards for airport employees from January 1"From January 1, all AEPs will be made using the Aadhaar number of the individual working or employed at the airport. A committee constitut...
28 Dec, 2016, 12.55 PM IST
Civil Aviation Ministry extends validity of regular AEPs till March 2017As part of the regulations, airline and airport executives, and others working there have to get their AEPs renewed annually.
22 Dec, 2016, 07.24 PM IST
Malaysia to use biometric system for tracking foreignersMalaysia is working to introduce a unique biometric tracking system, that it says will more effectively allow its Immigration Department to...
05 Nov, 2012, 05.32 PM IST