The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, November 02, 2002

Air India adds one more service to Japan
IN an effort to attract more tourists from Japan, Air India (AI) has started an additional flight on the Delhi-Bangkok-Tokyo sector from today taking the total number of flights between India and Japan to four times-a-week, the Minister for ... More

SilkAir begins operations to Hyderabad
SHOULD the Chief Minister of a State rush to the Centre to get approval for air connectivity to the State? Posing this question, the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, said "I am fighting for an `open skies' policy, so that ... More

IA reschedules Mumbai flights
IN view of Diwali, Indian Airlines has rescheduled/combined/cancelled some of its flights from Mumbai on November 4 as follows: On the Mumbai-Delhi sector, flights IC 601, IC 806 and IC 866 have been combined with IC 809 to leave Mumbai at 0900 ... More

`Vigilance awareness' at Thiruvananthapuram airport
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Thiruvananthapuram International Airport is observing a `Vigilance Awareness Week 2002' from Thursday. An official spokesman quoted Mr Rajan Madhekar, Inspector-General of Police (Intelligence), Kerala, who ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE

$100-m yardstick for metro airport bids
PROSPECTIVE consortia bidders wanting a stake in the soon-to-be-leased airports in Mumbai or Delhi would do well to ensure that their outfit has a net worth of at least $100 million. For, if the net worth is less than $100 million, or the ... More

SHIPPING

Mitsui, Oman Govt offer to buy out SCI in Greenfield
THE first foray by an Indian shipping company into the LNG transportation sector has failed to run its full course, making the prospective buyers of Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) jubilant. Japan's Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and the ... More

RAILWAYS

Thiruvananthapuram - Kochi Jan Shatabdi flagged off
The Union Minister of State for Railways, Mr A.K. Moorthy, (left) with the Union Minister of State for Urban Development, Mr O. Rajagopal, inside the Jan Shatabdi Express that was inaugurated on Friday. The train is to ply between ... More

ROADWAYS

Bengal truck rates to rise
TRUCK hire rates in West Bengal are set to rise, at least by 10 to 15 per cent if not more, following the State Government's decision to enforce relevant provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1968 to stop overloading of vehicles. At a meeting ... More

Charming tram
A tram makes its way through a street in Kolkata. The Calcutta Tramways Company has a fleet of 319 trams, 160 of which are operated daily, and employs around 8,300 workers. ... More

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