Alliance Air resumes flights to Tamil Nadu
The Hindu
The first flight (9I 893), on the Hyderabad-Chennai-Hyderabad sector, operated with a 70-seater ATR-72 aircraft
Alliance Air, the regional airline and a subsidiary of national carrier Air India, resumed its flights to Tamil Nadu from August 29, Sunday. The first flight (9I 893), on the Hyderabad-Chennai-Hyderabad sector, operated with a 70-seater ATR-72 aircraft, left as scheduled at 6.25 a.m. and arrived at Meenambakkam airport at 8 a.m. with 32 passengers. Flight 9I 894, with 31 passengers, departed at 8.30 a.m. and arrived at Shamshabad at 10.10 a.m. An airline spokesperson said the five-day ‘sunrise flight’ — Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday — will aid trade and commerce and demand for early morning connectivity with pandemic-related restrictions beginning to ease.A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.