MUMBAI: The Navi Mumbai airport missed its much-touted March-end deadline, but not by much as the city’s second commercial flights airport is expected to be inaugurated on April 17. Access to the public will begin four weeks later, in the second half of May, when airlines commence domestic flights, along with cargo operations. By the…
MUMBAI: Heavy rain and wind shear on Wednesday evening affected flight operations at the Mumbai airport as two flights were diverted while seven flights aborted landing and climbed for a second attempt at touch down. Air India flight AI-656 departed Rajkot at 6.15 pm and was scheduled to land in Mumbai and hour later, but…
NEW DELHI: A 13-year-old boy has been taken into custody for allegedly sending a hoax email claiming a bomb was on a Toronto-bound Air Canada flight from Delhi, according to police reports on Tuesday. The boy admitted he did it “just for fun” to test if he could be tracked down, authorities revealed.The incident came…
MUMBAI: In a close call at Mumbai airport on Saturday, an IndiGo aircraft descended on the runway, touching down even as an Air India flight was taking off, breaching the safety margin. The Air India plane lifted off a split second before the IndiGo jet touched down about 2,100 feet behind, said sources. At the…
NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has derostered an air traffic controller at Mumbai Airport following a close shave when an IndiGo aircraft was allowed to land even as an Air India aircraft was taking off from the same runway. The regulator has initiated a probe into this incident.“On June 8, 2024,…
MUMBAI: Consul general of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in Mumbai, Zakia Wardak, resigned from her post after TOI reported Saturday that she had been caught at the city airport allegedly trying to smuggle 25 kg gold worth Rs 18.6 crore into India from Dubai, reports Mateen Hafeez.Wardak announced her resignation in a post on X…
Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials intercepted consul general of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Zakia Wardak, at the Mumbai airport recently and recovered 25 kg of gold worth Rs 18.6 crore that she was allegedly trying to smuggle into India from Dubai. The incident occurred on April 25 and a case of gold smuggling…
Mateen Hafeez, special correspondent at The Times of India in Mumbai, reports on terrorism, underworld, cybercrime and organized crime syndicates. He also writes about the jails in Maharashtra and focuses on human interest stories. He has covered the Ghatkopar bomb blast, Vile Parle bomb blast, Mulund train blast, train serial blasts in 2006, 26/11 terror…
