Air India Crash: Eight Boeing 787 jets inspected so far, full fleet surveillance underway, says Aviation MinisterFollowing a fatal Air India 787 crash in Ahmedabad, Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu announced that eight Boeing 787 Dream...
14 Jun, 2025, 04.16 PM IST
Akasa Air gets nod to operate international flightsIndia's low-cost airline, Akasa Air, has been granted permission to operate international flights. The airline is expected to begin flying ...
20 Sep, 2023, 02.31 PM IST
Drunk passenger vomits, poops on board IndiGo flightKonwar also shared a picture of a female cabin crew member who cleaned up the mess. Konwar tweeted, “IndiGo 6E 762: Guwahati to Delhi. The ...
30 Mar, 2023, 06.52 PM IST
WHO alert on Gambia deaths: DCGI initiates probe; Haryana sends cough syrup samples to labA probe has already been initiated by India's drug regulator, the Drugs Controller General of India. "The samples have been collected by a ...
06 Oct, 2022, 07.26 PM IST
SpiceJet flights face glitches, again; invites probe from DCGA"No inflight engine shutdown was carried out; as a result no emergency was declared. During post-flight inspection, no visual leak has been...
06 Jul, 2022, 12.51 AM IST
IndiGo chaos: Staff away, more than half of the flights delayed; regulator to probeThe on-time flight performance of India’s biggest carrier by market share, dropped to around 45.2% on Saturday, according to data on the we...
03 Jul, 2022, 07.48 PM IST
DGCA extends ban on international passenger flights till September 30The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has extended the ban on scheduled international commercial passenger flights to and from India ti...
29 Aug, 2021, 03.08 PM IST
Drones, UAVs flying near Naval installations in Gujarat sans nod to be seized or destroyedThis warning came days after the Jammu and Kashmir Police shot down an IED-laden drone in the Akhnoor area, around 8 km inside the Internat...
28 Jul, 2021, 04.07 PM IST
Boeing executives called DGCA 'fools', 'stupid' during 737 Max plane's approval process in 2017: DocumentsBoeing staffers used terms like "fools" & "stupid" for DGCA during Max's approval process, documents show.
11 Jan, 2020, 01.56 PM IST
Pilot bodies oppose DCGA's draft duty and rest hours normsEarlier this month, aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) proposed a new set of flight and duty time limitation (...
27 Nov, 2018, 09.30 PM IST
Check `mental alertness' of 10 pilots, DGCA tells airlinePilots of Indian carriers are up in arms against DCGA's draft civil aviation requirement (CAR) that proposes to double notice period of com...
05 Jun, 2017, 10.55 AM IST
DCGA working on interim operational guidelines for civil use of Unmanned Aerial VehiclesAviation sector regulator DGCA is working on formulating interim operational guidelines for the civil use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)...
16 Mar, 2015, 10.19 PM IST
Air India, IndiGo flights come close to mid-air collisionThe Indigo flight came close to the descending AI plane raising the spectre of a collision and giving a scare to about 250 passengers on bo...
13 Jul, 2014, 02.16 AM IST
K M Cherian's Heart Foundation gets DCGA nod for tissue developmentDrug Controller General of India has given an approval to a city-based health care service provider to develop tissues for treatment of unm...
13 Dec, 2013, 05.01 PM IST
- Fake pilots: Government says no need to panic
Civil Aviation Ministry today said such reports were "far from the truth" and there was was no need to panic as only 13 such cases have bee...
13 Apr, 2011, 08.03 PM IST
- Jet Airways' on-time performance soars to 88%
On-time performance of private sector Jet Airways soared to 88 per cent while its wholly-owned subsidiary Jet Lite's performance went up to...
18 Jun, 2010, 09.08 PM IST