Dammam-Mangaluru Air India Express flight once again delayed at Dammam Airport
Passengers made to wait for seven hour
Dammam: Mangaluru bound Air India Express flight that was scheduled to take off from Dammam International Airport at 10.10 pm on Monday night was once again delayed. This the flight was delayed for about seven hours, passengers of the flight told Vartha Bharati.
According to the passengers the flight carrier Air India Express sent Emails to them at 9.30 pm informing them about the delay in flights causing inconvenience to about 200 passengers who were by then had already reached airport.
The passengers further alleged that women, children, senior citizen and patients were made to wait at the airport without adequate arrangements of food and accommodation for more than seven hours. The passengers further added that the Air India Express officials did not respond to their queries about the delay.
People from Coastal Karnataka and neighboring state Kerala prefer taking flight from Dammam to Mangaluru International Airport as it has direct flight between the two airports.
In a similar incident earlier this month, the same flight was delayed for more than two and an half hour before taking off. The passengers then were made to wait inside the flight with food and water supplies, the passengers had alleged.
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
