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Hyderabad: Customs officials at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Shamshabad seized gold weighing 2.29 kg from a male passenger who arrived here on a Dubai-Hyderabad flight on Thursday. The estimated worth of the seized gold was around Rs.1.2 crore. According to Customs officials, following specific inputs, the passenger was caught smuggling the yellow metal […]
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Hyderabad: Hyderabad cyclist Ashirwad Saxena, who clinched a team bronze in the recently-concluded 28th Junior Asian Track Cycling Championships in New Delhi, returned to the city to a rousing reception at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport. While receiving the athlete, K Dattatreya, General Secretary of the Telangana Cycling Association said, “The Telangana Cycling Association arranged […]
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Hyderabad: In a rare incident, the body of a newborn baby boy was found dumped in the women’s washroom in the passenger terminal of the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on Tuesday. According to police, the incident came to light when some workers went into the washroom to attend to plumbing and regular maintenance work at […]
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Hyderabad: Customs officials on Sunday seized 1022 grams of gold valued at Rs.53.77 lakh from a passenger at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Shamshabad. The male passenger, who arrived by Flight EL-526 from Dubai, had allegedly concealed the gold paste inside knee caps and worn it. Customs officials who grew suspicious noticing his movement frisked […]
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Hyderabad: First batch of Haj pilgrims from Telangana left for the pilgrimage from Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here on Monday. A total of 373 pilgrims left for Jeddah by a special flight of Saudi Airlines at 5.55 a.m., an official of Telangana State Haj Committee said. Earlier, around midnight the buses carrying the pilgrims were flagged […]
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Hyderabad: The GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (GHIAL), a GMR-led consortium, on Friday said the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) was adjudged having the ‘Best Airport Staff in India and South Asia’ at the Skytrax World Airport Awards 2022. The airport has also progressed in its overall ranking, moving from 64th position in 2021 to […]
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Hyderabad: Customs officials at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Shamshabad on Thursday seized gold weighing 1.646 kg from a woman passenger who arrived here on a Sharjah-Hyderabad flight. The estimated worth of the seized gold was around Rs.86 lakhs. According to Customs officials, following specific inputs, the passenger was caught smuggling the yellow metal […]
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Hyderabad: Customs officials at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here on Thursday seized gold valued at Rs 1.65 crore from a passenger who arrived from Dubai. The officials apprehended a male passenger who arrived by AI-952 from Dubai and a private employee working at the Covid Testing Centre at the airport. According to Custom officials, the passenger […]
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Hyderabad: The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, operated by GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited (GHIAL), has won the silver award in the Airports Council International’s Green Airports Recognition 2022 programme. RGIA won this award in the 15-50 Million Passengers Per Annum (MPPA) category in Asia – Pacific region for its carbon management process. Starting from 2018, […]
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Hyderabad: The GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited (GHIAL), in partnership with Telangana Overseas Manpower Company Limited (TOMCOM) on Wednesday launched a 24×7 Migrant Help Desk at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport. The desk is dedicated to vulnerable migrants travelling abroad, especially to Kuwait and Qatar. The migrant help desk, to function on a trial basis […]
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Hyderabad: In yet another high value drug seizure at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, a South African woman was nabbed with 6.76 kilograms of heroin, valued at about Rs.54 crore in the international grey market. According to Customs officials, it was based on passenger profiling that officers of the Air Intelligence Unit, Hyderabad Customs at […]
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Hyderabad: In yet another major seizure in recent times at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, the Hyderabad Customs seized 1.389 kilograms of heroin worth Rs.11.53 Crores from a Tanzanian national. According to Customs officials, the passenger arrived from Johannesburg (via Abu Dhabi) by Flight EY-274 on April 26. “The passenger was arrested and remanded to […]
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Hyderabad: In a major seizure, eight kilograms of cocaine, said to be worth Rs.80 crore in the market, was seized from two foreign nationals by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in a late night operation on Sunday. Two air passengers, a male Tanzanian national, travelling from Cape Town […]
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Hyderabad: The workers of BJP disrupted the speech of a Telangana minister at an official ceremony for the foundation stone laying of national highway projects. The incident occurred in the presence of Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, G. Kishan Reddy and V.K. Singh. Raising slogans of ‘Jai Shri Ram’, the BJP workers created an uproar when state […]
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Suryapet: Tragedy struck an NRI’s family with the death of a couple, which was on its way to their native place in the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh after return from Australia in the early hours of Wednesday. The car in which they were travelling hit a retaining wall of a culvert leading to death of the […]
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Hyderabad: A Tanzanian national, who allegedly swallowed 79 cocaine capsules in a bid to smuggle the drug into the country was arrested by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence on Tuesday. Officials seized 1157 grams of cocaine, valued at Rs.11.57 crore, from the 44-year-old man, who arrived at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport from Johannesburg via […]
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Hyderabad: In a major catch, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Hyderabad unit, seized around three kilograms of heroin at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on Sunday. A woman passenger, a Malawian national, who was allegedly smuggling the drug into the country, was taken into custody. The woman arrived on a business visa by Qatar Airways […]
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Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Traffic Police once again facilitated the speedy transport of a live organ by providing a green channel to an ambulance on Wednesday. The ambulance carrying a pair of lungs started from the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at 1.51 pm and reached KIMS Hospital in Begumpet at 2.18 pm, covering the distance of […]
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Hyderabad: A bigger and better Hyderabad International Airport, with a lot of new additions after the first phase of a massive expansion project, is all set for inauguration. The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, one of the fastest growing airports, had catered to 21 million passengers in 2019 and with growing requirements of the growing city, […]
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The bodies will be later flown to Patna from where the families of the victims will shift them to their native towns.
