Goa’s lone airport is heading for an annual maintenance closure for three days during the day time from April 5 onwards, forcing airline companies to reschedule their flights for this coastal destination.
The Indian Navy, which maintains the airstrip, has announced that the airport will be closed for all civil and military flying between 7 am and 4 pm from April 5-8.
Navy’s public relation officer Commander Prashant Mathur said the flights are being rescheduled and necessary measures taken to avoid inconvenience to the passengers.
The Airport Authority of India (AAI) spokesperson said that every day 25-35 flights will have to be rescheduled owing to the suspension of airstrip during the day time.
The AAI has not received any intimation of cancellations from the domestic or international flights.
The chartered flights, the spokesman said, were not scheduled to be operating during these closure days.
Goa airport has maximum traffic early in the morning following which the airstrip is opened for military operations.
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HC grants bail to two more AMRI directors
RAJIB CHOWDHURI
Kolkata, April 2
Close on the heels of the release of Radhe Shyam Goenka and Prashant Goenka in the AMRI Hospital fire case, two more board of directors of the private hospital’s management were granted bail by the Calcutta high court on Monday.
A division bench of Justice Asim Kumar Roy and Justice Asim Roy granted bail to Ravi Todi and Manish Goenka who were in custody for 116 days following their arrest after the devastating fire on December 9, 2011.
They had been chargesheeted by the detective department (DD) of the Kolkata police along with 14 others.
Mr Ravi Todi is also one of the directors of Srachi Group which is the co-promoter of AMRI with Emami group. The counsel of the accused, Utpal Majumdar argued before the high court that the investigation in the case was over and hence prayed for their bail.