Starting this year, California consumers will pay a 1.5% fee on all products with an embedded battery under a law aimed at ...

The fee that customers began to pay in the new year is just one piece of the state’s evolving response to an emerging risk.

DGCA has asked airlines to reassess safety protocols, provide better training to crew for early fire detection and ensure ...

India’s aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has introduced stricter in-flight safety norms regarding the use of power banks and other lithium battery-powered devices ...

The DGCA said the widespread usage of lithium batteries in various rechargeable devices has led to an increase in carriage of ...

DGCA has clarified that passengers are not allowed to use power banks to charge mobile phones or any other electronic devices ...

Power banks and spare lithium batteries will now be allowed only in hand luggage and cannot be stored in overhead ...

Passengers will no longer be allowed to connect their power banks to the aircraft's seat power sockets. Additionally, only ...

The DGCA, in a ‘Dangerous Goods Advisory Circular’ issued in November, said that power banks and spare batteries will be ...

Airlines have begun restricting the use of power banks on board flights after a DGCA circular warned of fire risks from ...

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has now completely banned the use of power banks, including aircraft seat ...

Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya mocked California's new battery fee, questioning how the state will actually use the ...