The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Ministry has no role in aircraft acquisition: Patel
THE Minister for Civil Aviation, Mr Praful Patel, has said that the two state-owned airlines, Air India and Indian Airlines, would decide on their aircraft purchase plans based on a techno-economic study. "The Ministry of Civil Aviation has no ... More

Of fanciful flying machines
THE stiff competition between Boeing Company of the US and Airbus Industrie of Europe has been a long story of neck-to-neck racing, with both seeking supremacy in the airplane manufacturing industry. The battle of ... More

Kingfisher Air gets its first aircraft
KINGFISHER Air on Monday took delivery of its first brand new Airbus A320 aircraft. The A320-200 aircraft has been leased from DaimlerChrysler-owned debis AirFinance. The company will lease out three more similar aircraft to Kingfisher ... More

SriLankan Cargo to launch freighter link to Coimbatore
SRILANKAN Cargo will start a twice-a-week freighter service between Colombo and Coimbatore from April 27. Aircraft AN-12F will be used for the flight, which is to be operated on every Wednesday and Saturday, the airline has said in a ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE

Praful Patel visiting Kerala
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Union Civil Aviation Minister, Mr Praful Patel, is arriving here to hold discussions on the development of the proposed Kannur airport. Announcing this, an official spokesman said here that the talks would be ... More

SHIPPING

Seaways to launch service to Bangla
TRANSPORTING cargo from Indian cities to Chittagong in Bangladesh will soon become faster, cheaper and easy, opening up greater business opportunities to export/import companies. Facilitating this much-needed service is the Rs 354-crore ... More

RAILWAYS

Rlys plans to spend Rs 270 cr on GSM-R tech
THE Indian Railways has set aside about Rs 270 crore for implementing Global System of Mobile Communications - Railways (GSM-R) in North, North-Central, Eastern, East-Central and Northeast Frontier Railways. While the GSM-R tenders have ... More

S. Rly to try Korean paint on tracks to prevent rust
SOUTHERN Railway is understood to have placed a trial order with Korea International Business Corporation (KIBC) for painting two stretches of railway tracks - one between Basin Bridge and Villivakkam near Chennai and the other near ... More

ROADWAYS

French cos keen on Indian road projects
THE massive road improvement programme undertaken by the country offers major investment opportunities for countries such as France, as the Government is taking steps to promote public-private partnership, the Union Surface Transport Minister, ... More

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