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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.
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Hyderabad: Amid the Russia-Ukraine war crisis, the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) has announced that it will be offering free bus services to the returning students from Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad to anywhere in the State. Ever since Ukraine shut its airspace after Russia’s aggression, scores of Indian students were stranded in […]
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Kyiv (Ukraine): Ukraine’s defense industry conglomerate says the world’s largest plane that was in regular operation was heavily damaged in fighting with Russian troops at the airport outside Kyiv where it was parked. The world’s biggest cargo aircraft Antonov An-225 made its first landing in India at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad in […]
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Emotional scenes were witnessed at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport as parents and other family members received the students who landed here from Mumbai.
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Hyderabad: The country’s longest elevated corridor, PVNR Expressway that connects the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad with Mehdipatnam in the city, has acquired one more ramp. The down ramp at Laxminagar set up by the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) at an estimated cost of Rs 5.03 crore, is slated to be inaugurated on […]
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Hyderabad: The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport police booked a case against two persons working for an associated firm of a private airline operating at the airport on charges of harassing a woman colleague, police said on Wednesday. The suspected employees, Srikanth and Rayudu, were allegedly misbehaving, harassing and abusing the 36-year-old woman, who worked in […]
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Hyderabad: An electric bus of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation caught fire while kept on charging at the Cantonment Depot here on Tuesday afternoon. None were hurt in the incident. Police suspect a short circuit led to the fire. Police said the incident occurred around 2pm, when the bus belonging to the Cantonment Depot […]
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Hyderabad: Hyderabad customs booked a case for smuggling of gold against a passenger who arrived by Air India flight AI 952 from Dubai to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) in Shamshabad on Saturday. The smuggled gold worth Rs.20.40 lakh was recovered from the passenger. The passenger concealed the gold in the paste form between outer […]
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Hyderabad: GMR Airports-run Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) in Hyderabad has received the ACI World’s (Airports Council International) prestigious ‘Voice of Customer’ recognition for the second time in a row. The prestigious award has been conferred on for their continuous efforts to listen to their passengers, engage and gather feedback to understand their needs and […]
