An Air India Express flight from Delhi to Jammu (IX-2564) returned to Delhi due to suspected GPS interference, a growing concern for airlines operating near conflict zones. The flight landed safely, and an alternative flight was arranged for passengers. GPS spoofing, which involves broadcasting counterfeit satellite signals, is difficult to detect and relies on pilot…
NEW DELHI: In a setback for Kerala’s ruling LDF, the Congress-led UDF on Monday won the Nilambur assembly bypoll, with Congress candidate Aryadan Shoukath defeating CPI(M)’s M Swaraj by 11,077 votes. This is the first time the LDF has lost a sitting seat during its current term.Shoukath, son of veteran Congress leader Aryadan Mohammed, secured…
NEW DELHI: India on Monday strongly rejected “unwarranted and factually incorrect references” made about the country during the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of foreign ministers’ meeting.“These statements, driven by Pakistan, which has turned terrorism into statecraft, reflect the continued misuse of the OIC platform for narrow political ends,” the ministry of external affairs…
NEW DELHI: In a setback for Kerala’s ruling LDF, the Congress-led UDF on Monday won the Nilambur assembly bypoll, with Congress candidate Aryadan Shoukath defeating CPI(M)’s M Swaraj by 11,077 votes. This is the first time the LDF has lost a sitting seat during its current term.Shoukath, son of veteran Congress leader Aryadan Mohammed, secured…
NEW DELHI: All India Trinamool Congress candidate Alifa Ahmed secured a sweeping victory in the Kaliganj Assembly bypoll, defeating BJP’s Ashish Ghosh by a margin of 50,049 votes—surpassing the 2021 win margin of her late father, Nasiruddin Ahmed, whose passing in February prompted the election in West Bengal’s Nadia district.Congress candidate Kabil Uddin Shaikh, backed…
NEW DELHI: Asia is currently warming nearly twice as fast as the global average with the 1991–2024 trend almost double that of 1961–1990, fuelling more extreme weather and wreaking a heavy toll on the region’s economies and ecosystems, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Monday.It said that the year 2024 with recording rise of…
NEW DELHI: An Air India Express flight from Delhi to Jammu was forced to return to the capital on Monday after a technical issue, later identified as suspected GPS interference, was detected mid-air.Flight IX2564, operated by an Airbus A320, had taken off from Delhi at 11:04 am, slightly behind its scheduled departure time of 10:40…
There’s a running meme on X, the hellhole formerly known as Twitter, where a doctor asks a patient: “Do you have a history of mental illness in your family?” To this, the patient replies: “I have an uncle who believes Iran is close to a nuclear weapon for the last 50 years.”Perhaps that’s why Operation…
SANGLI: A 16-year-old girl was bludgeoned to death by her father, a school teacher, for scoring low marks in a test in Maharashtra’s Sangli district, police said on Monday.The incident occurred at Nelkaranji village in Atpadi tehsil on Saturday night, an official said.He said that the accused, Dhondiram Bhosale (45), was upset with his daughter…
NEW DELHI: Congress criticised the Yogi Adityanath-led UP government’s health infrastructure citing several incidents of power cuts in key public hospitals. Calling out the Bhartiya Janata Party government for “boasting about its ‘world class’ health system”, the grand old party said that the state’s facilities were, in reality, “gasping for breath”.“The BJP government of UP…
