The UK courts relied heavily on evidence furnished by the ED. Modi had been charged with money laundering, destruction of evidence and illegal businesses via shell companies

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The restrictions will not apply to international all-cargo operations and flights specifically approved by the DGCA, according to the official circular

It is mandatory for all passengers travelling to India to submit their self-declaration form on the Air Suvidha portal (newdelhiairport.in) along with a negative RT-PCR report, conducted within 72 hrs of departure

The Government is yet to finalise a strategy for vaccinating 27 crore elderly in India in the next phase. The Government target was to vaccinate over three million people per day

The revised standard operating procedures (SOPs) for international arrivals issued by the Health Ministry on February 17 comes in the wake of mutant variants of Covid-19 virus driving the pandemic in these countries

The international travel restrictions imposed on March 25 made it challenging for the stranded Indians overseas to return to the country. In April, following their requests, the civil aviation ministry started the international repatriation flights under VBM

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The first price band consists of flights that are of less than 40 minutes. The lower limit for the first band is now increased from Rs 2,000 to Rs 2,200, while the upper limit in this band is set at Rs 7,800, which was Rs 6,000 earlier

The Kingdom's interior ministry has announced temporary suspension of flights effective from 1800 GMT Wednesday. The country has also received first vaccine shipment delivery from Pfizer-BioNTech

IndiGo CEO said on an earnings call on Thursday that short-haul international flights might start during April-June period. He said that the government is working on reopening international flights gradually

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Thursday extended the suspension of scheduled international commercial passenger flights till 11.59 pm on February 28, 2021

This does not mean flights have been banned between both the countries. Under the restricted arrangement, only 30 flights will operate out of Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru to the UK in one week

This rule will take effect from 11.59 pm on January 24 as part of tighter border measures to manage the risk of imported COVID-19 cases

All flights connecting the UK and India were suspended from December 23 to January 7 by the central government as a new variant of coronavirus emerged in that country

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Chaos at Delhi airport as UK-India flights resume, flyers complain against 7-day quarantine Chaotic scenes were witnessed at the Delhi airport on Friday as many passengers arriving from the UK vociferously complained against the national capital government's belated decision to make seven-day institutional quarantine compulsory for them irrespective of their COVID-19 test results. Passenger flights resumed from the UK to India in limited numbers from Friday onwards after remaining suspended...

Passenger flights resumed from the UK to India in limited numbers from Friday onwards after remaining suspended for 16 days due to the emergence of a new coronavirus variant in that country

The order also stated: 'Those who are found negative shall be kept in compulsory institutional quarantine for a period of 7 days followed by 7 days of home quarantine'