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GMR Airports chairman GBS Raju Handling commercial flights since 1962, Delhi’s Palam Airport has over the decades come a long way to become India’s busiest and make it to world’s top 10 hubs. It has been growing its wings through developments like getting T2 in 1986 that gave it the current name of IGI Airport. In 2005, the then UPA govt decided to expand and modernise the existing airports in Delhi and Mumbai on PPP model by giving them to private players for 30 years in 2006 and conditionally allowing another second 30-year concession period. The GMR Group this month…

Baramulla, May 24 : Security forces on Sunday recovered a major cache of explosive ammunition during a joint operation in the Nilsar Kandi area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Sources told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that the operation was launched jointly by Baramulla Police, 52 Rashtriya Rifles of the Army and the CRPF following specific intelligence inputs about the presence of terror-related material in the area. They said the joint team carried out a thorough search operation in the forested belt of Nilsar Kandi, during which a suspected terrorist hideout was busted. During the searches, security forces recovered…

NEW DELHI: The countdown has finally begun for the 1986-era Terminal 2 of Delhi Airport, which is likely to be “abandoned” by 2033. The mammoth T3 is set to get even bigger. The GMR-run Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) is evaluating when T3 should get its fifth pier, which will have a capacity of handling 1.2 crore passengers annually (CPA) — the same as that of T2. Once that happens, the domestic traffic being handled by T2 will move to T3’s new Pier E. The timing of the proposed Pier E and the upcoming air train are the key elements…

Bandipora, May 23: In view of the recent hailstorm that affected several areas of district Bandipora, Department of Horticulture has issued an advisory for orchardists regarding preventive and management measures for fruit crops to minimize post-hailstorm losses. According to the advisory, orchardists cultivating apple and pear crops have been advised to spray any of the recommended fungicides including Trifloxystrobin + Tebuconazole 75 WG @ 40g per 100 litres of water, Zineb (68%) + Hexaconazole (4%) 72 WP @ 125g per 100 litres of water, Carbendazim 12% + Mancozeb 63% (75% WP) @ 250g per 100 litres of water, Propineb 70% WP @…

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Madrassa Education Board on Saturday declared results of the Munshi/Maulvi (Secondary) and Alim (Senior Secondary) examinations for 2026. Overall pass percentage this year was 88.26%, with girls once again outperforming boys across all levels.Out of 80,933 registered candidates, 63,211 students appeared for the examinations and a total of 55,788 were declared successful. The board reported that 29,229 girl students passed with an impressive 94.3% success rate, compared to 26,559 boys who achieved an 85.13% pass rate.In Secondary (Munshi-Maulvi) exam, 62,232 students were registered and 47,036 appeared. Of these, 41,426 candidates passed, resulting in an overall pass percentage…

JAISALMER: Amid the ongoing global energy crisis these days, India’s drive towards energy self-sufficiency has received a major boost from Rajasthan, as state-owned energy major Oil India Limited has successfully discovered a new gas-bearing sand in the Dandewala Field of Jaisalmer district.Oil India Limited achieved natural gas flow for the first time from the shallower Sanu Formation in the Dandewala Gas Field with production estimated at nearly 25,000 standard cubic metres per day.The gas is of better quality as it does not contain much carbon dioxideOn Saturday Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri confirmed the development through a tweet, stating…

Udhampur , May 24 : More than sixty students of the Government Middle School in Manglian, located in Udhampur district, are facing a severe crisis as their school building has been left highly compromised. The structure developed dangerous cracks following heavy rainfall and a series of landslides in August 2025, raising serious safety concerns for the children and staff. The situation has been worsened by an intense ongoing summer heatwave, which prevents students from taking their lessons outside in the open air. Consequently, they are forced to study in the veranda of the structurally unsafe building, sitting directly beneath the…

Paradeep Singh’s wife Kamal had arrived in New Zealand from India just six months ago to start a new life with him What began as a routine day of yard work ended in tragedy for an Indian-origin couple in New Zealand after a falling tree branch killed Paradeep Singh, leaving behind his newly arrived wife with no family, income or support system in the country.Singh was known to friends and family as Deep. He died this week while carrying out maintenance work at his home in Cambridge, Waikato. He had been working outside with others on his day off when…

MUMBAI: Central Railway’s Mumbai division will operate a megablock on its suburban sections today to carry out various engineering and maintenance works. There will be no megablocks on the Western Railway suburban section. On the Main Line, the block will be carried out on the Matunga–Mulund slow lines from 11.05 am to 3.55 pm. Up slow line services departing from Thane between 11.07 am and 3.51 pm will be diverted to the Up fast line between Mulund and Matunga stations. These trains will halt at Mulund, Bhandup, Vikhroli, Ghatkopar, Kurla and Sion stations before being re-diverted to the Up slow…

GURGAON: Overheated equipment, an oil spill, and a blast. The snag that took down a large section of the city’s power grid was triggered by a cocktail of problems that hit the critical Sector 72 substation of Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam (HVPN) on Friday evening. Officials said the disruption began around 7pm when a technical fault hit two circuits at the Sector 72 substation, a key node that draws power from a 440 kV line and feeds two 220 kV substations. The fault led to oil leakage from a current transformer, which caught fire and exploded before the breaker could…