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Hyderabad: Eight international travellers from at-risk countries who arrived at RGIA, Shamshabad on Monday have tested positive for Covid-19. The surveillance teams of the health department have collected the blood samples of the 8 international travellers and sent them to CDFD and CCMB for full genome sequencing to ascertain the Omicron variant status, the health […]

Hyderabad: An international passenger who arrived at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad on Sunday from at-risk countries has tested positive for Covid-19. The Covid positive passenger has been shifted to Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences (TIMS), Gachibowli for isolation and blood samples were collected and sent for full genome sequencing by the surveillance teams of […]

Hyderabad: The RGIA police investigating the fake visas fraud case have reportedly arrested five persons working in the Immigration Department at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in connection with the case. According to sources, the staff along with the employees of a private airliner had colluded with agents and facilitated them in sending people illegally […]

Hyderabad: The surveillance teams of the health wing in Telangana on Monday conducted RT-PCR tests on 105 international travelers who had arrived at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport from at-risk countries. According to the Director of Public Health (DPH), Dr G Srinivasa Rao, all the 105 persons have tested negative for Covid-19. So far, 1,910 […]

Hyderabad: A total of 291 international passengers, who arrived from at-risk countries to Hyderabad international airport on Sunday, were screened by surveillance teams of the health department and have tested negative for Covid-19. Since December 1, the surveillance teams have screened and conducted RTPCR tests on 1270 passengers out of which 13 have tested positive. […]

Hyderabad: A total of 1570 international travellers from at-risk countries, where omicron, the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 was reported, have been screened at Hyderabad international airport since Saturday, November 27, senior health officials on Monday said. During the process of scanning, the health teams identified 13 passengers who were partially vaccinated. As a result, all of […]

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Customs seized 410 grams of gold from a passenger at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here on Saturday. The passenger had arrived from Dubai and the gold, valued at Rs.20.3 lakh, was found stuffed inside a talc powder tin and concealed inside the aluminum lining of a suitcase. A case was booked […]

Hyderabad: Not stopping at increasing the number of destinations, the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here is steaming ahead with a major expansion plan that will see its capacity being raised from the original design of 12 million passengers per annum (MPPA) to 34 million passengers very soon. As one of the fastest-growing airports in India, […]

Hyderabad: As the number of Covid-19 cases steadily comes down across the country, the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here is bustling with activity, with October 9 recording the highest (domestic and international) passenger footfall of nearly 48,000 and 350 Air Traffic Movements, which is 77 per cent of pre-Covid numbers. Notwithstanding the restrictions triggered by […]

Hyderabad: The customs officials on Monday booked a case against a person for smuggling gold from Riyadh to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) in Shamshabad via Kuwait. The passenger, who arrived by a Jazeera flight from Riyadh, concealed the gold worth Rs.34.24 lakh in cookies and chocolate boxes. The passenger’s suspicious movements roused the suspicion […]

The national carrier Air India Flight AI 147 took off from the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport as officials from the airport, Air India officials and other airport stakeholders gathered at the terminal to celebrate

A Sri Lankan Airlines flight took off at 9.55 am with 120 passengers from Hyderabad to Colombo amidst much fanfare at the airport. Senior officials from GMR Hyderabad International Airport and Sri Lankan Airlines

Hyderabad: The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here is getting bigger, and better. According to a post from the RGIA social media handles on Monday, expansion of the airport, which was earlier this month awarded the Gold Recognition by the Airports Council International (ACI) Asia-Pacific Green Airports Recognition 2021 in the below 25 Million Passengers Per […]

IndiGo flight 6E 8108 will operate between Hyderabad and Malé three times a week - Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday - departing from RGIA at 2.20 pm (IST) and arriving in Maldives at 4.30 pm (IST).

Progressed from 71st position in 2020 to 64th position in 2021 among the World’s top 100 airports

Hyderabad: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) sleuths on Monday seized 3.2 kilograms of heroin worth around Rs 21 crore, from a Zambian woman at the RGI Airport Shamshabad. The woman passenger arrived from Zambia via Johannesburg and Doha to Hyderabad. “On checking, the officials found the woman was carrying a white powder. Further checks […]

Hyderabad: The RGIA police on Tuesday arrested a man for travelling to Libya and staying there for a fortnight in violation of an order issued by the Indian government. Syed Haji Ismail, a native of Kalburgi in Karnataka, holds an Indian passport and lived in Dubai where he has a business. On June 22, Haji […]

Spread over 45 acre, more than 30 thousand solar panels have been installed to produce 10 MW power.

A medical team started with a heart and lungs from RGIA in an ambulance at 2.09 pm and reached KIMS Hospital at 2.35 pm, covering 36.8 km in 26 minutes.

The RGIA had around 20 international destinations before the second wave and now it has 11 international destinations