Hardeep Singh Puri

According to the data released by the Ministry of Civil Aviation in India, on 30 June, as many as 2,61,753 passengers boarded flights across the country

Central government is mulling over a mechanism to enable hassle-free domestic air travel and to do away with the mandatory RT-PCR report for those passengers who have received both jabs of a COVID-19 vaccine

The civil aviation minister, Hardeep Singh Puri, has clarified that flights from India to the UK can start on 6 January while operations from the UK to India will begin on 8 January

India has now entered into an air bubble agreement with the Netherlands and Tanzania

DGCA has increased the number of domestic flights countrywide to 56% of pre-Covid-19 levels, aimed eventual resumption of scheduled international air travel into and out of India

India’s government has now established an air bubble arrangement with Ukraine which takes the tally of countries with whom it has such an arrangement to 17

As India adds on to the list of countries with which it has created air bubbles in the recent weeks, it has now established an air travel bubble with Japan

India is resuming domestic commercial flights from today as part of a continuing relaxation of its lockdown to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. The resumption of internal flights, exactly two months after they were suspended, was announced by India’s civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri. “Domestic civil aviation operations will recommence in a calibrated manner. All […]

The government may not have extended support to now-defunct Jet Airways but it has promised to facilitate employment to job-less airline staff. The civil aviation ministry is in touch with other private airlines such as SpiceJet and IndiGo to assist Jet staff get meaningful employment. Hardeep Singh Puri, civil aviation minister of India said that […]

Air India will resume its additional flight on Delhi-Colombo route from 15 July, Hardeep Singh Puri, the civil aviation minister said. The national carrier had stopped operating the additional flight after the 21 April Easter terror attack in Sri Lanka that targeted churches and luxury hotels, killing a total of 258 people and injuring 500 […]

Prahalad Singh Patel has been named the new Minister of State with Independent Charge of Tourism and Culture Ministries (MoS I/C) in the second Modi government.  Elected from Damoh constituency in Madhya Pradesh, Patel is one of the new faces in the second National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government. A seasoned politician, Patel has been a […]