The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Bird-hit causes grounding of Emirates flight at Hyderabad Internation Airport
A DUBAI-bound, Emirates Airline Airbus-330, carrying 188 passengers, was forced into an emergency safe-landing at the Hyderabad International airport, within an hour of take-off, following a bird-hit. The EK-527 flight, which took off at 10.20 ... More

AIRLINES

Singapore Airlines offers travel deals from Mumbai
SINGAPORE Airlines has announced travel deals for passengers travelling from Mumbai to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Penang (Malaysia), Australia and New Zealand. The promotion is valid on the airline's daylight flight, SQ 421, from Monday to ... More

British Airways to hike fuel surcharge from July 1
BRITISH Airways today announced a hike in the fuel surcharge that passengers have to pay for tickets booked on long-distance flights from July 1 from $35 to $48. This also means that passengers travelling on the Delhi-London-Delhi sector will ... More

Singapore Airlines' summer travel offer
SINGAPORE Airlines has joined hands with the Singapore Tourism Board and Millennium Copthorne Hotels, Singapore's largest hotel chain, to come up with a summer travel offer on travel to Singapore and beyond. The offer includes special return ... More

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

SatNav unveils navigation device
SATNAV Technologies, a Hyderabad-based IT products company, today announced the launch of what they described as India's first navigation system - SatGuide, a pocket PC-based touch screen navigation device. The company is in talks with ... More

SHIPPING

Kochi port users turn down proposal to hike container tariffs
PORT users at Kochi have turned down the proposal of India Gateway Terminal Pvt Ltd (IGTPL) — a subsidiary floated by Dubai Ports International for container terminal operations in the port — to increase container handling tariffs ... More

MCC to start Haldia-Singapore bi-weekly services from mid-July
SINGAPORE-BASED MCC Transport proposes to start bi-weekly services between Singapore/Port of Tanjung Pelepas (Malaysia) and Haldia from mid-July. The two vessels identified for the services — MCC Clipper and MCC Confidence, with a capacity ... More

Fishy blockade
Fishermen in Kochi blockade the Cochin Port Trust office on Tuesday demanding space for a fish landing centre on Vallarpadam Island, north of the proposed site for the International Container Transshipment Terminal. ... More

ROADWAYS

L&T gets Rs 418-crore contract in Harayana
Larsen & Toubro has won a contract from the National Highways Authority of India, estimated at Rs 418 crore, for the construction of a flyover in Haryana. The contract for the six-lane flyover on National Highway 1 in Haryana also includes ... More

Strike effect
Lorries remain idle at Yashwanthpur truck terminus in Bangalore on Tuesday. Lorry owners are on an indefinite strike that entered ninth day on Tuesday. The protest is against the lack of proper Government policy on transportation of sand from ... More