12 more airports ready to implement DigiYatra facility: Civil Aviation ministerResponding to supplementaries during the Question Hour, the minister emphasised that the passenger data shared through DigiYatra App is not...
01 Aug, 2024, 02.42 PM IST
Domestic carriers cancelled 7,030 flights this year till May-end: Govt dataAccording to the Civil Aviation Ministry, domestic airlines cancelled 7,030 flights this year till May 31, with 4,56,919 departures in 2024...
22 Jul, 2024, 06.36 PM IST
NITI Aayog calls for policy and legal reforms to regulate use of facial recognition technology (FRT) in IndiaIn a report, prepared by the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy on behalf of the Aayog, it had proposed imposing liability and the extent of lia...
01 Jul, 2024, 07.05 PM IST
Digi Yatra policy should spell out all rules on passenger info deletion, suggests studyA study by NITI Aayog recommends that the Digi Yatra policy clearly outline rules for deleting passenger information post-travel, amid priv...
01 Jul, 2024, 04.49 PM IST
Digi Yatra app has always been under our full control: Digi Yatra FoundationDigi Yatra Foundation maintains control over the application despite controversy with former vendor. CEO denies storing passengers' data. A...
17 Apr, 2024, 10.48 PM IST
Digi Yatra: Stakeholders working to address tailgating issueStakeholders, inc. Digi Yatra Foundation & BCAS, work on airport tailgating issue using FRT. Measures include gate closure speed, systemati...
14 Apr, 2024, 11.21 AM IST
Digi Yatra purely voluntary; data can be collected only after passenger's consent: Jyotiraditya ScindiaDigi Yatra, a contactless, seamless movement of passengers at airports based on Facial Recognition Technology (FRT), is purely voluntary fo...
27 Jan, 2024, 05.42 PM IST
Indore's Devi Ahilyabai International Airport to now accept e-visasThe first direct international flight from Indore was launched for Dubai on July 15, 2019, and since then, there has been a demand for acce...
29 Dec, 2023, 06.27 PM IST
Digi Yatra to be available at 25 more airports in 2024: ScindiaCivil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia announced the expansion of the Digi Yatra facility, implementing it in 25 additional airports ...
15 Dec, 2023, 03.14 PM IST
India's third 700 MW nuclear power reactor completes hot conditioning, says NPCILIndia's third home-built 700 MW nuclear power reactor at Rawatbhata in Rajasthan achieved a significant milestone with the completion of th...
30 Nov, 2023, 10.42 PM IST
Digi Yatra facility to be launched at six more airports in August"Digi Yatra facility will be launched at six more airports namely Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Kochi, Lucknow, Jaipur, and Guwahati airports in the m...
11 Aug, 2023, 10.42 PM IST
Tirupati temple to use facial recognition system for darshan from today: How it worksMoreover, this same technology could be used in the allocation of rooms to genuine devotees at subsidised rentals, allowing the admin to de...
01 Mar, 2023, 12.24 PM IST
Paperless check-in, boarding service Digi Yatra to be launched at four more airports next month. Details here"Airports Authority of India (AAI) has awarded the work for the implementation of the Biometric Boarding System at Kolkata, Pune, Vijayawad...
03 Feb, 2023, 11.50 AM IST
Govt needs to bring codified data protection regime at earliest, says NITI paperIn 2019, the government introduced the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill in parliament, which was subsequently withdrawn this year.
07 Nov, 2022, 06.06 PM IST
Facial recognition technology at 4 airports to be introduced by March next year: CentreCivil Aviation General V K Singh (retd) said FRT has not yet been introduced at any of the airports in India. However, the Airports Authori...
02 Dec, 2021, 03.23 PM IST
Buildings with UNESCO world heritage tag can now display signboardsThe Art Deco buildings of the 20th century alongside the Oval Maidan, Bombay High Court, University of Mumbai, David Sassoon Library and Ma...
23 Dec, 2019, 01.38 PM IST
- Security stepped up in Mumbai ahead of 26/11 anniversary
Security has been beefed up across Mumbai on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks, which comes close on the heels ...
25 Nov, 2012, 10.24 PM IST