The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, December 20, 2003

Govt urged to pump in Rs 325 cr as equity into IA
THE Parliamentary Consultative Committee attached to the Ministry of Civil Aviation has suggested that the Government should strengthen the equity base of Indian Airlines (IA) by providing the Rs 325-crore, which had been recommended earlier by ... More

Jet special flights to Port Blair for festival season
JET Airways will operate a direct flight on Kolkata-Port Blair-Kolkata sector on December 25 and 29 and again on January 1 and 2 next year to meet the heavy passenger rush during Christmas and the New Year. In a statement, the airline has said ... More

Fog effect in North
Passengers waiting for their flights to take off at the Delhi airport. Dense fog played havoc with flight schedules in the Capital on Friday. It descended shortly after midnight reducing the runway visibility range to 200 metres. Four ... More

Travel market excited over Jet, Sahara's proposed Colombo flights
THE travel market in the South is excited with the prospect of Jet Airways and Sahara Airlines operating on the Chennai-Colombo sector. The general expectation is that with more seats on the sector, the prices would come down and that the ... More

SHIPPING

SCI: A case of missed business opportunity
STATE-owned Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) mirrors a classic case of missed business opportunity due to weak-kneed political will of the Government to push through the disinvestment process and bureaucratic tangles. While most shipping ... More

Construction work at Dhamra port expected to begin soon
The company has started preliminary work to level the land and plans to construct labour quarters. It has also started mobilising equipment for the construction. More

Kochi Refineries awaits Central clearance for SBM project
HAVING obtained the environmental clearance from the State Government, Kochi Refineries Ltd has requested similar clearance from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests for setting up the Single Buoy Mooring (SBM) off Puthuvypeen island in ... More

RAILWAYS

Gurgaon seeks Delhi Metro link
AFTER Noida, it is now the turn of Gurgaon to seek metro connectivity. The Haryana Government has approached the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) for extension of the system to the satellite city. "We have been asked by the Haryana ... More

Samjhauta Express from January 15
INDIA and Pakistan on Friday agreed to resume the bi-weekly Attari-Lahore Samjhauta Express from January 15, 2004, a move that is expected to help establish peace between the two countries through greater people to people contact. The two teams ... More

ROADWAYS

National Highways project Phase II gets CCEA clearance
THE Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday cleared Phase II of the National Highways Development Project (NHDP) involving rehabilitation and upgradation of 6,195 km of existing 2-lane highway into 4/6-lane divided carriageway at ... More

Ships in Ports

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