Cash crunch hits non-metro airport upgrade plans

October 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Now commuters and visitors to the Delhi Metro can take back a toy replica of the metro trains as souvenir of their journey, an official said Wednesday. "From today (Wednesday), visitors to the Metro museum at the Patel Chowk Metro Station can carry a lasting memory back home - a toy metro train will be available for sale at the souvenir shop," Delhi Metro spokesperson Anuj Dayal said.

October 8th, 2009 Fund crunch has badly hit the ambitious housing plan announced for Mahadalits (poorest among the downtrodden) in Bihar, officials said today. The state government in July this year had unveiled the housing plan for the Mahadalits wherein the government was to grant a cash of Rs 87,500 to each of over 1 lakh Mahadalit families to make them purchase land and construct houses on their own.

October 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In a bid to boost the convenience for its commuters, the Delhi Metro Sunday announced that airline passengers will be able to check in for their flights at the Dhaula Kuan station on the Airport Express line. This will be the third City Airport Terminal (CAT) along this route.

September 14th, 2009 DC subway worker dies after hit by train last weekWASHINGTON — A worker on the Washington Metro transit system has died of injuries from being struck by a train last week. Metro officials say 44-year-old John Moore, of Arlington, Va., died Monday of injuries suffered in Thursday's accident.

August 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government plans to convert the airport regulator Airports Authority of India (AAI) into a company, a senior aviation ministry official said Tuesday. "We are working out to convert AAI from an authority to a company by next March.

July 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The new aviation regulator, Airport Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA), will settle all contentious issues in the aviation sector, including the airport development fee issue, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said here Thursday. Replying to questions in parliament, Patel said: "AERA has been constituted by an act of parliament and has started functioning.

June 24th, 2009 CHENNAI - The Tamil Nadu government is in the process of acquiring land for expansion and modernisation of metro and non-metro airports in the state. According to a policy note Transport Minister K.N.

April 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) Thursday completed the construction of its deepest tunnel, built below the existing Metro tunnel at Rajiv Chowk in the heart of the capital. 'The breakthrough achieved today (Thursday) marked the completion of the deepest tunnel of the Delhi Metro, which has been built below the existing tunnel of Central Secretariat - Vishwavidyalaya line at Rajiv Chowk,' a DMRC statement here said.

April 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) Thursday completed the construction of its deepest tunnel, built below the existing Metro tunnel at Rajiv Chowk in the heart of the capital. 'The breakthrough achieved today (Thursday) marked the completion of the deepest tunnel of the Delhi Metro, which has been built below the existing tunnel of Central Secretariat - Vishwavidyalaya line at Rajiv Chowk,' a DMRC statement here said.

March 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Metro services were disrupted Saturday morning after a train ran over an unidentified person at the Chawri Bazaar station in what could be a case of suicide, an official said. 'A metro train ran over a person at about 8.15 a.m.

February 27th, 2009 VADODARA - Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel Thursday laid the foundation of a new terminal here, the seventh since Feb 20, after inaugurating the departure terminal at the Delhi airport earlier in the day. After Vadodara airport, the minister will lay the foundation stone of the terminal building at Surat airport Friday, officials of the Airports Authority of India said.

February 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel was on an overdrive Friday, flying to as many as five cities during the day to kickstart the upgrade and modernisation projects of their airports. If 8:30 a.m.

February 5th, 2009 LONDON - Actress Lindsay Lohan was upset when she was denied a first class upgrade from on a flight from the US city of Tampa to Los Angeles. According to mirror.co.uk, Lohan started creating a fuss when she was denied the upgrade.

December 28th, 2008 KOLKATA - Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel Monday set the ball rolling for a Rs.16-billion modernisation of the international airport here, which will include a new terminal, modern taxiways and extension of a runway so that it can handle the giant Airbus A-380 aircraft. The modernisation project, the foundation stone for which was laid by West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, is targeted for completion by May 2011.

December 23rd, 2008 KOLKATA - The modernisation work of the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport here will be completed by May 2011, a senior official familiar with the projectsaid. Civil aviation minister Praful Patel will lay the foundation stone for the modernisation work Dec 29.