Navi Mumbai New Airport

Navi Mumbai is set to get an international airport, which is being built with an eye on the high air traffic demand. The new airport will be located in the center of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) at Ulwe in Navi Mumbai.

Amid a proposal to name the upcoming Navi Mumbai international airport after Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray, the BJP on Thursday formed a human chain in Alibaug town in Maharashtra's Raigad district to press for its demand to give late PWP leader

Mumbai finally started work on a new airport more than two decades after first proposing it, as jets ran out of space to operate in one of the busiest aerodromes using a single runway.

India has asked for interest from global companies to build and operate a new airport in Navi Mumbai, estimated to cost nearly $2 billion initially, in the outskirts of the financial capital to meet growing air traffic.

The Centre has cleared two new airports in Pune and Nagpur following Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's meeting with Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan in New Delhi today.

Maharashtra government today offered to provide 22.5 per cent of the developed land to those whose lands would be acquired for the Navi Mumbai International Airport project.

Government is considering giving the management control of the new Kolkata and Chennai airports, built by the Airports Authority of India (AAI), to global operators through a competitive bidding process.

The meeting on infrastructure is also expected consider launch of bullet train between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, elevated rail corridor in Mumbai and starting of two new major ports.

The clearance to Navi Mumbai airport had been dragging on for long but it has finally got the green signal and work will start soon on this much-awaited second airport in Mumbai.Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel on Monday said that the Navi Mumabai airport is not only important for Mumbai and Maharashtra state but also for the country. (Watch)Wh...

Barely a fortnight after an unimpressed Union Environment Ministry put it on hold voicing concerns, the Maharashtra government is fighting hard to resurrect the airport project at Navi Mumbai.The Environment Ministry wasn't at all convinced about the site at Navi Mumbai and asked the state government to consider three other alternatives: Kalyan, Wa...

It appeared, after a meeting between the warring parties two weeks ago, that Mumbai would get its new airport after all. Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel consulted with Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, and a compromise seemed possible, if not imminent.At the heart of the conflict lies the environmental impact of the airport, planned 20 km aw...

After a meeting, the Environment Minister and the Civil Aviation Minister seem close to a compromise on the plans for a new airport at Navi Mumbai, say sources.The Navi Mumbai airport is scheduled to begin operations in 2013 at Panvel, about 20 kilometres away from the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport. It's expected to handle an additional...

Ever since the public spat between Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, the Navi Mumbai airport plan is making headlines. NDTV travels to this satellite city on the outskirts of Mumbai, where the conflict is playing out.Touted as the location for Mumbai's second international airport, Navi Mumbai, is more tha...

Navi Mumbai is set to get an international airport, which is being built with an eye on the high air traffic demand. The new airport will be located in the center of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) at Ulwe in Navi Mumbai.

Amid a proposal to name the upcoming Navi Mumbai international airport after Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray, the BJP on Thursday formed a human chain in Alibaug town in Maharashtra's Raigad district to press for its demand to give late PWP leader

Mumbai finally started work on a new airport more than two decades after first proposing it, as jets ran out of space to operate in one of the busiest aerodromes using a single runway.

India has asked for interest from global companies to build and operate a new airport in Navi Mumbai, estimated to cost nearly $2 billion initially, in the outskirts of the financial capital to meet growing air traffic.

The Centre has cleared two new airports in Pune and Nagpur following Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's meeting with Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan in New Delhi today.

Maharashtra government today offered to provide 22.5 per cent of the developed land to those whose lands would be acquired for the Navi Mumbai International Airport project.

Government is considering giving the management control of the new Kolkata and Chennai airports, built by the Airports Authority of India (AAI), to global operators through a competitive bidding process.

The meeting on infrastructure is also expected consider launch of bullet train between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, elevated rail corridor in Mumbai and starting of two new major ports.

The clearance to Navi Mumbai airport had been dragging on for long but it has finally got the green signal and work will start soon on this much-awaited second airport in Mumbai.Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel on Monday said that the Navi Mumabai airport is not only important for Mumbai and Maharashtra state but also for the country. (Watch)Wh...

Barely a fortnight after an unimpressed Union Environment Ministry put it on hold voicing concerns, the Maharashtra government is fighting hard to resurrect the airport project at Navi Mumbai.The Environment Ministry wasn't at all convinced about the site at Navi Mumbai and asked the state government to consider three other alternatives: Kalyan, Wa...

It appeared, after a meeting between the warring parties two weeks ago, that Mumbai would get its new airport after all. Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel consulted with Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, and a compromise seemed possible, if not imminent.At the heart of the conflict lies the environmental impact of the airport, planned 20 km aw...

After a meeting, the Environment Minister and the Civil Aviation Minister seem close to a compromise on the plans for a new airport at Navi Mumbai, say sources.The Navi Mumbai airport is scheduled to begin operations in 2013 at Panvel, about 20 kilometres away from the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport. It's expected to handle an additional...

Ever since the public spat between Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, the Navi Mumbai airport plan is making headlines. NDTV travels to this satellite city on the outskirts of Mumbai, where the conflict is playing out.Touted as the location for Mumbai's second international airport, Navi Mumbai, is more tha...