The government is considering making drug testing mandatory for all commercial pilots at least once a year, Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu said. Currently, rules require airlines to randomly test only…
The civil aviation ministry is considering making all commercial pilots undergo random psychoactive substance tests every year, Union minister K Rammohan Naidu said Tuesday. Currently, DGCA rules mandate random tests for only…
Two penny stocks priced below Rs 5 hit their 5% upper circuit on 26 August despite a weak session on Dalal Street. ACI Infocom Ltd shares touched an intraday high of Rs…
The government is considering random dope tests for all airline pilots, up from the current 10% requirement. Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu said the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is…
Aspiring pilots in India need 10+2 with Physics and Mathematics, or equivalent through NIOS, and must pass DGCA medical assessments starting with a Class 2 Medical before progressing to a Class 1…
Foreign airlines are scrambling to get DGCA approval to transport dangerous goods to and from India after a new regulation took effect last week. The rule, notified in February and followed by…
Average airfares across 72 domestic sectors rose about 20.5% between March 2025 and June 2026, according to DGCA data cited by the civil aviation ministry in a Rajya Sabha reply on 27…
Aviation safety in India has improved statistically, with the accident rate dropping to about 1.3 per million sectors in 2025 from 4 per million in 2015, according to the IATA Safety Report.…
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a First Information Report (FIR) against Captain Anil Gill, former Director of Flying Training at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), and four…
Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) has accused SpiceJet of spreading misinformation by blaming bad weather for flight disruptions. In a statement, CIAL said there were no adverse weather conditions at Kochi that…
