Though things are still at the preparation and organizing stage, plans are inching towards finalization for development of an international airport near Shimla, the tourist hill town, well-known as Queen of Hills in Himachal Pradesh.

About 200 bighas of land have already been identified at three places in Shimla and Solan district, and a final decision will be announced soon.

The state has many other ambitious air borne plans including starting heli taxi services by December 2011. Also the number of helipads in the state will be increased to 70, with new ones to be set up in Sirmour, Mandi and Kinnaur districts.

With a mountainous terrain, plans are also there to connect all tourist and religious places in the state by ropeways.

In order to give a further boost to tourism Himachal Pradesh state government will put up a request to the Railway Ministry to start heritage trains on UNESCO listed World Heriatge Sites such as Shimla-Kalka and the Pathankot-Joginder Nagar railway lines.

The Himachal Pradesh government has lately started participating in many domestic and international tourism festivals to promote the state’s multi cultural offerings to interested tourist. The state had just held an exhibition in Delhi, promoting tourism in Himachal Pradesh including state handicrafts and cuisines.

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Four army soldiers parachuting from a plane during an airborne training process were injured Wednesday when they fixed a wind gust and hit the earth hard, officials said.

3 soldiers suffered probable mild concussions, while the 4th complained of a strained neck muscle after landing at Rickenbacker International Airport, said David Johnson, a spokesman for the Army Reserve 412th Civil dealings Battalion in Columbus. The injured soldiers were taken to local hospitals.

The 3 Army Reserve paratroopers and one Ohio National Guard Special Forces paratrooper be taking part in a routine monthly jump that had 56 soldiers parachuting 1,250 feet from a C-130 military cargo plane, Johnson said.

The Ohio National Guard said the men jumped at on 1 p.m. from a plane that had flown from Pittsburgh.

The injured men "caught some additional wind and land hard," Johnson said. "The wind will catch it and the parachute won't deflate, and the paratrooper keeps going," are getting dragged.

Wind speed at the airport at the time was 15 mph, with gust up to 22 mph, said National Weather Service Meteorologist Jeffrey Sites. He said such speeds are not significant but would feel breezy.

One of the men landed on the airport tarmac, while the other 3 came down on the grass. The injured soldiers are ages 26 to 45.

Hard landings are not unusual during the monthly jumps, but the injuries are usually less serious, like sprained ankles and scrapes, Johnson said.

Rickenbacker is home to an Air National Guard base. It is mainly a cargo airport that also has a charter passenger incurable, and it is south of Columbus' main airport, Port Columbus International Airport.

Former Paraguay goalkeeper Jose Luis Chilavert had to be alienated from an Argentine mediator in an Asuncion airport, after an alleged dispute over owed money from previous player transfers.

Pablo Seijas claim that the goalkeeping legend demanded money from transfer the agent was not concerned in.

“Chilavert demanded money from me for his supposed part in the transfers of Argentine players Rolando Zarate to Mexico & Sebastian Romero to Greece, but I told him I had not anything to do with those moves," Seijas told radio station Primero De Marzo.

Meanwhile Chilavert claim that Seijas had offended him in Argentina's Ezeiza airport shortly before a planned flight to Asuncion, calling him a "starving Paraguayan".

The 2 men both got on the plane and continuous their stand-off in the Paraguay capital's Silvio Pettirossi airport, coming to blows when Chilavert challenged the mediator to repeat his abuse on home soil.

"It bothers me that in a foreign land they say whatever, but in our country I am not going to permit," Chilavert stated to 1.020 AM on Monday afternoon.

"He landed a punch on me, but he absolutely got the worst of it."

Chilavert represented Paraguay 74 times and scored 8 goals in a playing career that enclosed over 20 years, and also played in the 1998 and 2002 World Cups. He also managed to score over 60 times from free-kicks and penalties, a record for goalkeepers until Sao Paulo's Rogerio Ceni surpassed him.

A check-in worker at Auckland Airport will come into view in court later this week accused of assaulting radio host Iain Stables.

The man was under arrest by police behind the controversial shock jock here at the airport on Saturday night to catch a Jetstar flight to Wellington and was told by the employee he was too late.

A stable allegedly called the man "loser" and was then allegedly assaulted by the worker who had to be pulled off by airport security.

A county Manukau spokeswoman established this afternoon that a man had been arrested and would appear in Manukau District Court on Friday.

A 2nd straight day of stormy climate caused some lunchtime delay today at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

Winds and storms rolled through the Phoenix area late Tuesday morning. That caused for some departure delays and fewer arrivals until the climate cleared.

Assistant airport director Deb Ostreicher said at 1:30 p.m. that 40 to 50 planes were lined up to take off after the weather had cleared. The prospects of more high winds required those planes to be spread out more which makes catching things up at the airport a little longer, Ostreicher said.