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  PM Holds High-Level Meet, Briefs President As India Strikes Terror Camps

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with his top ministers in the cabinet committee on security at his home in Delhi after India carried out pre-dawn air strikes on terror camps across the Line of Control on Tuesday.

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  Rajnath Singh Chairs Meeting Of Top Officials To Review Security Situation

  Ahead of Republic Day, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and other top officials today reviewed the security situation in the country as Delhi and many other places continue to be on high alert in the wake of Pathankot terror attack.

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  Sending National Security Guard To Pathankot Was Serious Lapse: Digvijaya Singh

  Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh today said sending National Security Guard (NSG) commandos to Pathankot Air Force base was a "serious lapse" and questioned the role of NSA Ajit Doval in the decision even as he denounced Narendra Modi's recent Lahore visit, saying it was unbecoming of a Prime Minister.

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  Air Strikes or Special Forces: How the Myanmar Operation was Meticulously Planned

  Action within 72 hours - that was what the political leadership had suggested to the Army to liquidate the militant camps across Myanmar. And one of the ways considered to achieve it was the use of Sukhoi and MIG 29 fighter jets, top sources told NDTV.

• Air India using Dreamliners for more hours than global average

  While all nine planes were being flown daily, the tenth aircraft that arrived two days ago would be put into flight operations by November 15.

• Costing Rs 100 crore, Mumbai to get India's tallest Air Traffic Control tower in December

  It's as tall as a 30-storey building and is being touted as Mumbai's latest landmark. Already standing tall at nearly 84 metres, the shiny new Air Traffic Control (ATC) tower at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport is the tallest in the country.

• Air India must perform or perish: Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh

  The UPA government won't privatise national carrier Air India but the airline needs to perform if it doesn't want to perish - this is what Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh told NDTV in an exclusive interview.

• Boeing 787 Dreamliners to begin operations from tomorrow, says government

  Air India will begin flying Boeing 787 Dreamliners on domestic routes from tomorrow. Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh today said that international operations will begin from May 22.

• Airlines can charge for preferred seats, check-in bags: Government

  In a move that would raise the cost of air travel, the government today said it has allowed airlines to charge passengers for preferred seats on a flight, check-in baggage and meals, among other things.

• Boeing liable to compensate Air India for grounded 787 Dreamliners: Civil Aviation Minister

  Boeing is liable to compensate state-run Air India for the grounding of 787 Dreamliner passenger jets on safety issues, Indian aviation minister Ajit Singh told reporters on Friday.

• Boeing 787 Dreamliner will operate after US, Indian aviation regulators' clearance: Ajit Singh

  India has grounded all six of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft operated by state-owned carrier Air India after the same decision was made by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

• Air India officials face action for malpractices in rostering

  A government statement disclosed that Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh "has taken a serious note of the complaints of irregularities, corruption and malpractices in the Cabin Crew Roster Section of Air India and ordered penal action against the officials involved."

• 14 pilots showed up drunk to work between January and March

  Fourteen pilots and 31 cabin crew members failed alcohol tests during the pre-flight medical examination between January and March this year, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said today.

• Bharat Bhushan asked to quit as head of aviation regulatory body DGCA

  EK Bharat Bhushan has been asked to quit as chief of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the body which supervises safety and implementation other civil aviation reglations. While there was no official word on the reasons for his removal as DGCA by the Civil Aviation ministry, there has been speculation that his recent warnings to Ai...

• Ajit Singh slams on-strike Air India pilots again

  Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh lashed out at the on-strike Air India pilots once again, calling their strike is 'illegal' and saying the agitating pilots have no intention of coming back to work.