Vistara to operate Kolkata-Port Blair flights for stranded passengers; cancels Kolkata-Delhi flight
New Delhi (PTI): Full-service carrier Vistara has said it had to cancel one of its flights from Kolkata to Delhi scheduled for Sunday in order to operate additional flights for passengers stranded in Kolkata and Port Blair.
"Vistara Flight UK747 operating from Kolkata to Port Blair and the return flight UK787 on 30 September 2023 were cancelled due to bad weather in Port Blair. We are operating one additional flight on the two sectors on 01 October 2023 for the stranded customers in the two cities," an airline spokesperson said in a statement late on Saturday.
"In order to accommodate these additional flights, we had to take the difficult call of cancelling one of our flights scheduled to fly from Delhi to Kolkata and then back to Delhi," the spokesperson said.
The statement came against the backdrop of Trinamool Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member Derek O'Brien mentioning the flight cancellation in the context of the party's proposed protests on Monday and Tuesday in the national capital.
"First, they abruptly cancel special train services from Kol to Del to prevent those who were to travel to participate in protests on Oct 2 & 3, demanding 10s of 1000s of crores owed to Bengal by BJP Union govt. Now a flight gets cancelled! Try as you might, we WILL TAKE YOU ON," he said in a post on X on Saturday.
He also shared a screenshot of the details about the cancelled Vistara flight which was scheduled to depart from Kolkata at 6.45 pm to Delhi on Sunday.
According to the Vistara spokesperson, the airline is in touch with all the affected customers to offer them alternate options, including offering them seats on the next flights, basic availability, or refunds and deeply regrets the inconvenience caused to the customers.
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
