Hyderabad-Tirupati flight diverted to Chennai airport
The Hindu
IndiGo flight from Hyderabad to Tirupati diverted to Chennai due to poor weather conditions, later departed with passengers.
An IndiGo flight from Hyderabad, which had to land at Tirupati, was diverted to the Chennai airport on Saturday morning, sources said. The flight, which departed from the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad around 9.45 a.m., had to arrive at Tirupati airport around 10.40 a.m., but due to bad weather conditions, the flight could not land and was diverted to Chennai, sources added. The flight, which came to the city with about 170 passengers, later left around 4 p.m.
Udupi-Chikkamagaluru MP Kota Srinivas Poojary said on Saturday that the State government has decided to reject the Centre’s fresh draft notification on Kasturirangan committee report on conservation of the Western Ghats. Hence, people’s apprehension on the implementation of the report is unnecessary.