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17 Dec

Number of airports to be doubled to 150 : Jayant Sinha

NEW DELHI: “Aviation sector is the sunrise sector of growth and going through profound changes”, remarked Mr. Jayant Sinha, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, while addressing the 89thAnnual General Meeting of FICCI. The aviation sector has dramatic headroom for growth with 150 million passenger trips a year as compared to China with 450 million passenger trips and USA at 800 million passenger trips a year. The total revenue of airlines is Rs 1.4 lakh crore and is growing at a rate of 20%. He added that as of today 9 crore passenger travel domestically and 5 crore internationally. He emphasized that the government is committed…

15 Dec

Aussie planes hit more IS targets after new law

Canberra: Australia has increased striking key Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria and Iraq following changes to its war crimes legislation, a senior air force officer said on Thursday. In June, the Australian government modified its war crimes bill to allow servicemen to engage in wider range of hostile terrorist targets without fear of prosecution, Xinhua news reported. On Thursday, the air force officer told media that since the changes were implemented, Australian bombers were recording a "weapons release rate" of 61 per cent, up from 20 per cent earlier in 2016. "Previously we would have rejected targets because they fell…