Monitored Passengers

An alert approach radar controller closely monitoring the airspace above Bengaluru's Airport may have saved the lives of hundreds of passengers onboard two IndiGo jetliners that nearly had a mid-air collision shortly after both took off on Jan 7.

The Ministry of Civil Aviation stated that it has been monitoring the traffic every day, and that the air traffic is expected to further pick up because of the festive season. As the passenger traffic increases, the upper cap would be revised to 70-75 per cent of normal capacity in the coming days.

The Railways has procured Ninja unmanned aerial vehicles for monitoring its assets and ensure safety for passengers, Railways Minister Piyush Goyal has said.

The Railway Board has decided to implement 20 innovations by its employees to make train journeys safer and improve passenger comfort - such as a bell warning to alert travellers minutes before a train departs, real-time CCTV monitoring inside coaches, printing of unreserved tickets through mobile applications - on a mass scale.

More than 15 lakh foreign travelers came to India over the last two months but a "gap in monitoring" by states could "seriously jeopardize" India's efforts to check the spread of coronavirus or COVID-19, the centre has said.

Over a dozen people are being monitored in isolation wards of hospitals in various cities including Delhi and Mumbai for possible exposure to a deadly strain of coronavirus that has killed 106 people and infected over 4,000 in China. In Kerala, over 400 people have been kept under surveillance at their homes for possible exposure to the virus. Auth...

Anti-government protesters brought chaos to Hong Kong's airport for a second consecutive day Tuesday, forcing airlines to suspend check-in for departing flights, as demonstrators extended their standoff with authorities who have been unable to quell months of dissent.

"Ola Guardian, the real-time monitoring system to strengthen ride safety of customers, has been launched as a pilot in Bengaluru, Mumbai and Pune," the city-based cab-aggregator said in a statement.

An Emirates airline flight from Dubai was quarantined at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday morning after passengers became ill during the flight, the airline and New York news media said.

Federal air marshals have for years been quietly monitoring small numbers of U.S. air passengers and reporting on in-flight behavior considered suspicious, even if those individuals have no known terrorism links, the Transportation Security Administration said on Sunday.

The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation has developed a live streaming mechanism that will allow passengers to view how the food served to them in trains is prepared and packaged at various base kitchens of the national transporter.

The new bullet trains, also known as electric multiple units (EMU), include a sophisticated monitoring system that constantly checks its performance and automatically slows the train in case of emergencies.

Ixigo keeps track of a user's preferred travel sectors and him or her a fare alert as soon as the fare drops, the travel search marketplace said in a press release.

A cruise ship carrying a Dallas health care worker who was being monitored for Ebola returned to port on Sunday after an eventful seven-day trip in which passengers had their vacations briefly disrupted with an infectious disease scare.

A Southwest Airlines flight bound for Texas from Los Angeles with 143 passengers aboard was forced to land in Phoenix on Monday after a telephoned bomb threat and US fighter jets were diverted to monitor the situation, authorities said.

An alert approach radar controller closely monitoring the airspace above Bengaluru's Airport may have saved the lives of hundreds of passengers onboard two IndiGo jetliners that nearly had a mid-air collision shortly after both took off on Jan 7.

The Ministry of Civil Aviation stated that it has been monitoring the traffic every day, and that the air traffic is expected to further pick up because of the festive season. As the passenger traffic increases, the upper cap would be revised to 70-75 per cent of normal capacity in the coming days.

The Railways has procured Ninja unmanned aerial vehicles for monitoring its assets and ensure safety for passengers, Railways Minister Piyush Goyal has said.

The Railway Board has decided to implement 20 innovations by its employees to make train journeys safer and improve passenger comfort - such as a bell warning to alert travellers minutes before a train departs, real-time CCTV monitoring inside coaches, printing of unreserved tickets through mobile applications - on a mass scale.

More than 15 lakh foreign travelers came to India over the last two months but a "gap in monitoring" by states could "seriously jeopardize" India's efforts to check the spread of coronavirus or COVID-19, the centre has said.

Over a dozen people are being monitored in isolation wards of hospitals in various cities including Delhi and Mumbai for possible exposure to a deadly strain of coronavirus that has killed 106 people and infected over 4,000 in China. In Kerala, over 400 people have been kept under surveillance at their homes for possible exposure to the virus. Auth...

Anti-government protesters brought chaos to Hong Kong's airport for a second consecutive day Tuesday, forcing airlines to suspend check-in for departing flights, as demonstrators extended their standoff with authorities who have been unable to quell months of dissent.

"Ola Guardian, the real-time monitoring system to strengthen ride safety of customers, has been launched as a pilot in Bengaluru, Mumbai and Pune," the city-based cab-aggregator said in a statement.

An Emirates airline flight from Dubai was quarantined at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday morning after passengers became ill during the flight, the airline and New York news media said.

Federal air marshals have for years been quietly monitoring small numbers of U.S. air passengers and reporting on in-flight behavior considered suspicious, even if those individuals have no known terrorism links, the Transportation Security Administration said on Sunday.

The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation has developed a live streaming mechanism that will allow passengers to view how the food served to them in trains is prepared and packaged at various base kitchens of the national transporter.

The new bullet trains, also known as electric multiple units (EMU), include a sophisticated monitoring system that constantly checks its performance and automatically slows the train in case of emergencies.

Ixigo keeps track of a user's preferred travel sectors and him or her a fare alert as soon as the fare drops, the travel search marketplace said in a press release.

A cruise ship carrying a Dallas health care worker who was being monitored for Ebola returned to port on Sunday after an eventful seven-day trip in which passengers had their vacations briefly disrupted with an infectious disease scare.

A Southwest Airlines flight bound for Texas from Los Angeles with 143 passengers aboard was forced to land in Phoenix on Monday after a telephoned bomb threat and US fighter jets were diverted to monitor the situation, authorities said.