Believing in cutting the flab, the Union ministry of external affairs has tied up with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to ensure
availability of passports within 72 hours of completion of formalities in six cities, including three in the region, as part of a pilot project.

Talking to TOI, TCS vice-president Tanmoy Chakrabarty said, “The passport sewa centres will come up in Chandigarh, Ambala and Ludhiana, where applicants will be informed within 45 minutes of submission of forms whether their passports can be made or not, along with reasons for rejection.” More

Low-cost Dubai-based carrier FlyDubai, which was scheduled to begin its operations in India from July 13 has decided to delay its foray”due to operational reasons”.
” Flydubai had planned to begin its operations to India with flight to Lucknow on July 13, Coimbatore on July 14 and Chandigarh on July 23, however, due to operational issues, we have had to delay these flights,” Flydubai CEO Al Ghaith said in a statement.Read

Travelling abroad from Punjab and Haryana will not mean travelling to Delhi anymore with Chandigarh airport
being upgraded to an
international airport. The first flight for Dubai will take off July end.

Sunil Dutt, director of Chandigarh airport, said: “We have got confirmation from Fly Dubai. They have got permission from the union civil aviation ministry to fly a daily direct flight to Dubai from Chandigarh.” More

“Congress MP Pawan Kumar Bansal’s claim of bringing an International Airport to Chandigarh is totally a farce. The factual position is that in the Chandigarh International Airport project, the Central Government holds 51 per cent of the share and Punjab and Haryana have 24.5 per cent share each. Read the rest of this entry »