The long-cherished dream of Arunachal Pradesh to have air connectivity finally came true on May 21 with the first fixed-wing commercial aircraft being flagged off from Pasighat to Guwahati. National carrier Air India agreed to start ATR-42 services of Alliance Air to Pasighat from Gopinath Bordoloi airport at Guwahati, connecting the state with the rest […]

The Government of India has digitized the process of FRRO (Foreigners Regional Registration Office) registration, visa extension, etc., for foreign nationals visiting India. The government has now introduced an e-FRRO portal with an aim to provide faceless, cashless and paperless service to foreign nationals. There will be no requirement to visit the FRRO office. Earlier, […]

SpiceJet will soon connect Assam’s northern district of Lakhimpur to Jorhat in the southern part of the state. SpiceJet Chairman and Managing Director Ajay Singh announced the airline’s plan at Advantage Assam: Global Investors Summit ’18. If it comes through, the move will form part of the government’s UDAN or Regional Connectivity Scheme, an initiative […]

IndiGo and SpiceJet partially shifted their operations from Terminal 1 to the revamped Terminal 2 of New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport from March 25.  The IndiGo flights, 6E 2000-6E 2999, are for routes to Bengaluru, Chennai, Amritsar, Bhubaneswar, Raipur, Srinagar, Bagdogra, Udaipur, Vadodara, and Visakhapatnam from T2. SpiceJet shifted seven sectors (flight SG 8000 […]

Cygnett Hotels and Resorts has signed a new 50-room property in Dibrugarh, Assam, set to open in September. Sarbendra Sarkar, founder & managing director of Cygnett Hotels Group, said, “We are delighted to announce the signing of a new 50-key hotel in Dibrugarh, a brilliant location with close proximity to the airport. Cygnett Inn Dibrugarh […]