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Delhi airport to reopen runway RW 10/28 in May 1st week amid traffic congestion

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Delhi airport to reopen runway RW 10/28 in May 1st week amid traffic congestion


A senior Air Traffic Controller (ATC), on Friday (April 18, 2025), explained that ATFM measures are generally implemented to ensure that there is no delay for aircraft before landing at an airport. File
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Faced with air traffic congestion and flight delays, Delhi airport operator DIAL on Sunday (April 20, 2025) said the upgradation works of runway RW 10/28 will be temporarily suspended, and it will be reopened for operations in the first week of May.

The airport has four runways – RW 09/27, RW 11R/29L, RW 11L/29R and RW 10/28.

In a series of posts on X, DIAL said that in coordination with stakeholders, it has decided to temporarily suspend the critical ILS (Instrument Landing System) upgrade work necessary for the winter season.

“Runway 10/28 will be brought back into operation in the first week of May, with the remaining upgrade activities deferred for a month or so,” it said.

The decision comes against the backdrop of flight delays due to reduced capacity following the runway closure and easterly winds.

Runway RW 10/28, where one side is not compliant for CAT III operations, was closed for operations this week to carry out maintenance works. A CAT III facility allows aircraft operations in low-visibility conditions.

On April 11, DIAL CEO Videh Kumar Jaipuriar told PTI that the maintenance works of the runway RW 10/28 will be completed by September, well before the fog season.

Delhi International Airport Ltd. (DIAL) operates the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA), the country’s busiest airport.

On Sunday (April 20, 2025), as well as the past few days, authorities have put in place Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) measures to prevent possible flight delays.

A senior Air Traffic Controller (ATC), on Friday (April 18, 2025), explained that ATFM measures are generally implemented to ensure that there is no delay for aircraft before landing at an airport.

At Delhi airport, RW 10/28 is temporarily closed for maintenance works, and that has reduced the arrival capacity at the airport. Now, around 31-32 aircraft, both scheduled and non-scheduled, can arrive per hour, while it was 45 planes per hour when RW 10/28 was available for operations, the controller had said.

Published – April 21, 2025 09:23 am IST



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Fort Fit Foods to open 2 new factories in Hwh | Kolkata News – The Times of India

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Kolkata: Food processing company Fort Fit Foods is set to establish two new manufacturing units at Sugandha and Bagnan in Howrah in the next eight months, with an investment of around Rs 15 crore. The company will produce noodles and pasta at these new facilities.
The company has 11 food processing units, including rice and flour mills across the state, according to company director and CEO Rahat Agarwal. “We are also planning to manufacture ice creams in Bengal,” he said at an event on Tuesday.
Speaking at the event, Bengal CEO Manoj Agarwal, also former secretary in the state’s food and supplies department, focused on the need for food fortification. “Stakeholders in the food processing sector need to come on a single platform with govt bodies. Food fortification is happening on a small scale today,” said Agarwal.





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Unpolluted stretch of the Cooum to get one more check dam; residents call for action against sewage pollution

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Unpolluted stretch of the Cooum to get one more check dam; residents call for action against sewage pollution


The unpolluted stretch of Cooum River is set to get one more check dam at Perambakkam in Tiruvallur district. However, residents have raised concerns over discharge of sewage and urged the State government to ensure that the check dams do not turn into sewage discharge points.

The Water Resources Department (WRD) has started the process to construct the check dam — a storage structure that will retain floodwater and boost groundwater table. It will come up around 7.7 km downstream of Kesavaram anicut at a cost of ₹6.50 crore.

Many check dams across the Cooum in Tiruvallur have retained water even during summer. This has encouraged the WRD to chalk out plans to build more storage structures for recharging groundwater and preventing floods in Chennai.

Officials said that the check dam, across the 85-metre-wide river, would have a design to discharge nearly 10,556 cubic feet of water per second (cusecs) and a storage capacity of nearly 6.74 million cubic feet of water (mcft), when filled twice a year.

“This check dam will retain water in the Cooum for a length of 1.4 km, help irrigate about 360 acres of land and recharge borewells that are used to supply drinking water…,” an official said.

The WRD is set to start the work in May or early June, and complete it in a year. Welcoming the efforts to build more check dams across the river, residents said that the check dams too were not spared of sewage discharge in fast-urbanising areas.

K. Mugundhan, co-ordinator, Unpolluted Cooum Protection Committee, said that residents of Soranchery and Anaikattucherry benefited from the new check dam near Soranchery for irrigation and drinking water needs. However, a check dam along Kaduvetti village near Paruthipattu had become vulnerable to sewage discharge. “It is important for government agencies to ensure that check dams do not become sewage discharge points of nearby local bodies,” he added.

Officials of the WRD said they were coordinating with the local bodies to address the issues.

Published – April 24, 2025 01:12 am IST



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Area-wise info of pre-schools on single portal | Mumbai News – The Times of India

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Mumbai: Parents in Maharashtra may soon have access to information about all pre-primary schools in their vicinity on one official platform. The information will not only include details on their website addresses, the students enrolled, and when they were started, but also on the physical infrastructure available, including the number of toilets, and the teachers and attendants available at the pre-schools. In a first such initiative to have consolidated data on pre-schools under one platform, the state govt launched a portal for their registration.
With the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the central govt has brought children in the 3-6 age group under its ambit. The state is now making an attempt to implement the policy in a phased manner. Though the women and child development department has details on anganwadis, there is little or no control over private institutions offering pre-primary education. So, the state has launched this portal to bring all private centres providing pre-primary education under one platform, said school education minister Dadaji Bhuse. The portal was launched by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday.
The information sought from the pre-schools in the registration forms available online also includes data on whether the school enrols children with special needs, whether they have CCTV surveillance, or if they have playgrounds or even water tanks. In the section made available for teachers, schools have to fill in details about their qualification. The data will also help the govtframe a policy for pre-primary education soon.
Principal secretary, School Education, Ranjit Singh Deol, said that registration on the portal will not be mandatory as of now. “Currently, the state does not have information on all such private centres providing pre-primary education. Once the policy is framed and implemented, registration will become mandatory for all,” said Deol.





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