Teaotia named Commerce Secy; Choubey new Aviation SecretaryA total of 17 Secretary-level new appointments have been cleared by the Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) headed by Prime Minister Na...
03 Jun, 2015, 05.13 AM IST
DGCA asks Labour Ministry to remove pilots from workmen categoryIn the Industrial Dispute Act 1947, non-workman is defined as an employee who is mainly in managerial or administrative capacity.
29 Apr, 2015, 06.01 AM IST
Civil aviation ministry wants pilots out of Industrial Disputes ActThe civil aviation ministry has decided to request the labour ministry to remove pilots from the workmen category under the Industrial Disp...
28 Apr, 2015, 03.10 PM IST
Buildings within 15 km of airports to take off easilyAs per new norms, construction projects do not need to get a nod from the civil aviation ministry, if the proposed height is within the sti...
10 Apr, 2015, 11.46 AM IST
Govt to strengthen aviation security, increase manpower at BCASPlan to raise manpower at the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security comes in view of increased threat perception and at a time when when carrie...
07 Apr, 2015, 05.05 PM IST
Journalists covering Civil Aviation barred from entering MinistryJournalists covering the Civil Aviation beat have been barred from entering Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan , a move the scribes have protested against.
05 Mar, 2015, 03.59 PM IST
Delay a flight, face pay cut, Air India staff told"Salaries shall be paid only after related deductions have been effected. Strict disciplinary action shall be taken against repeat offender...
02 Feb, 2015, 11.04 AM IST
Delays plague Air India, government directs it to hire 800 cabin crew membersThe directive comes as AI has been facing serious flight delays caused, among other reasons, by a crippling cabin crew shortage.
21 Jan, 2015, 10.35 AM IST
M Sathiyavathy is new Director General of Civil AviationOfficials said the development came after the DGCA’s tiff with the ministry on allowing self-certification of airlines, pilots and other st...
01 Jan, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
Promoters will infuse funds to revive airline: SpiceJet to Govt“The promoters are committed to the airline and they are very much interested. We have a number of solid financial plans,” SpiceJet COO San...
18 Dec, 2014, 05.41 PM IST
Civil aviation ministry pulls up Airports Authority of India for easing building height norms around airportsThe ministry has also directed AAI to furnish details regarding percentage of cases in which the height norm was violated after aeronautica...
04 Dec, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
Government unveils draft aviation policy; may privatise Air India, Pawan HansGovernment brought in a fresh draft recommending listing of AAI and Pawan Hans and steps to beef up Air India operations, hinting at its st...
11 Nov, 2014, 02.51 AM IST
Airports will soon look cleaner: Civil Aviation Secretary V SomasundaranMentioning that an intensified cleanliness drive is being carried out at 17 airports for about a week, he said the remaining airports will ...
02 Oct, 2014, 03.38 PM IST
Onus on civil aviation ministry panel to decide on airport privatisationThe civil aviation ministry has decided to take an inter-ministerial group’s (IMG) approval before proceeding on a proposal to privatise op...
25 Sep, 2014, 04.09 AM IST
V Somasundaran appointed as the new aviation secretary1979-batch Kerala cadre IAS officer V Somasundaran as the new aviation secretary and transferred current aviation secretary Ashok Lavasa to...
30 Aug, 2014, 04.47 AM IST
New secretaries appointed for civil aviation, steel ministriesAshok Lavasa, a 1980 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre, will replace V Rajagopalan, a 1978 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, who s...
29 Aug, 2014, 03.02 PM IST
BPCL signs MOU with Kerala Government for a new petrochemical complexKerala Govt said it would extend incentives to BPCL's single largest investment of Rs 20,000 crore for its IREP.
14 Sep, 2012, 05.24 PM IST