PM Modi inaugurates 15 airport projects, including new Delhi terminal

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated 15 airport projects, including 12 new terminal buildings of almost worth Rs 10,000 crore in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh.

The inaugural marks the event to be the single biggest infra addition that will see a mix of new airports, expanded terminals, laying of foundation stones for upcoming airports and other related facilities.

The project includes 12 new terminal buildings of Pune, Kolhapur, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Delhi, Lucknow, Aligarh, Azamgarh, Chitrakoot, Moradabad, Shravasti and Adampur Airports.

The projects initiate the groundwork for multiple airport projects nationwide in a significant boost to the civil aviation sector India and the four-nation European bloc EFTA today signed a free trade agreement to help promote investments and exports of key domestic services sectors such as IT, audio-visual, and movement of skilled professionals.

Announcing the deal, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said that, 'despite structural diversities in many aspects, our economies possess complementarities that promise to be a win-win situation for all nations.

Protesting farmers, who resumed marching towards Delhi on March 6, are set to hold a nationwide ‘rail roko’ agitation for four hours today.

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha had called for the agitation to continue pressing their demands to the Centre. 

The ‘rail roko’ protest, which comes a few days after the ‘Delhi Chalo’ march, started  between 12pm and 4pm.