The Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi handles more than 1,500 flight movements daily. More than 800 flights were reportedly delayed, and at least 20 flights were cancelled, due to a technical glitch on Friday.
2 min read8 Nov 2025The air traffic controllers have reportedly been unable to get flight plans automatically due to technical issues since Thursday evening.
2 min read7 Nov 2025Heavy rain and thunderstorms caused the diversion of 49 flights, including 17 international, at Delhi's IGI airport. Winds reached 82 kmph, with 81.2 mm of rain recorded.
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5 min read13 May 2025Delhi Airport halts runway upgrade operation after nearly 900 flights, which were thrown into disarray on Sunday, April 20.
1 min read21 Apr 2025A plea filed by a social activist said that Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport recorded 705 confirmed bird strike incidents between 2018 and 2023, exceeding the combined total of 654 such cases across 29 airports in six states.
3 min read19 Mar 2025As per PM Modi's vision of ‘Viksit Bharat’ by 2047, the economy needs to become a $30 trillion plus. In order to achieve this, developing world-class infrastructure will play a pivotal role.
11 min read27 Feb 2025As the winter schedule kicks in, domestic airlines are already in expansion mode. Data shared by aviation analytics company Cirium throws up interesting statistics for November, after Vistara’s merger with Air India, the first full month of operations in the Northern Winter Schedule.
3 min read8 Nov 2024Delhi international airport, the country's largest with annual traffic of 73.7 million passengers, is introducing airport operations system which is a predictive tool and monitors data real timeThe airport is also assessing installation of AI-guided automatic people-mover.
2 min read20 Jun 2024The IGI airport has been named the cleanest airport in the Asia Pacific region by the Airports Council International (ACI), a non-profit organisation of airport operators.
1 min read7 Mar 2023The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared
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