NEW DELHI: India has moved from “silence to surgical precision” in giving bold and proportionate responses to cross-border terrorism, BJP said Thursday, referring to Operation Sindoor, as it highlighted the achievements of Modi government in the last 11 years.The party said the country has grown faster on all fronts and people’s lives have been transformed…
File photo: Civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu (Picture credit: ANI) New Delhi: Civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu late Thursday announced a probe into the Ahmedabad air crash by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) and also constituted a high-level committee of experts to strengthen aviation security.“Following the tragic incident in Ahmedabad, a formal…
Gokhale Institute & SIS now lock horns over cash control PUNE: Tensions between the Pune-based Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE) and parent Servants of India Society (SIS) have flared again with both trading allegations over control of a key bank account.The feud comes against the backdrop of an FIR filed on GIPE’s complaint…
Air India plane crash (Photo: AP) Britain is sending a team of experts to India to support the investigation into the Ahmedabad plane crash. The UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has formally offered its assistance to the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau in India.“We are deploying a multidisciplinary investigation team to India to support the…
NEW DELHI: “I hope this plane goes to a boneyard 25-30 years later and gets recycled there.” This is what the senior commander, who took delivery of the Dreamliner Boeing 787-8 (VT-ANB) had told one of his crew members while doing a walk around the plane before flying it home in January 2014.Fate, however, had…
An hour before takeoff from Ahmedabad on Thursday, Captain Sumeet Sabharwal had called home and told his family he would ring again once he reached London. That was not to be. His last call was to air traffic control before AI171 crashed and burned. Sabharwal, a senior pilot, had 8,200 flying hours, aviation regulator DGCA…
3 resident docs & a pregnant woman among victims on campus, 1 missing AHMEDABAD: Three resident doctors and the pregnant wife of another doctor were killed Thursday in the trail of destruction left by Air India flight AI 171 crashing into the Atulyam-4-4 residential quarters and a hostel mess on the campus of Ahmedabad’s B…
Fiongal Greenlaw-Meek (39) a tarot reader, psychic artiste and spiritual adviser and founder of Wellness Foundry, and his husband Jamie Meek (Picture credit: Instagram/@wellnessfoundry) LONDON: A gay British couple working as spiritual healers who uploaded an Instagram video from Ahmedabad airport saying how happy and calm India had left them just before boarding the doomed…
British Indian relative’s family shell-shocked as elderly couple killed LONDON: A British Indian relative of an elderly Indian couple killed on board the Air India flight has spoken of his anger with the airline, saying the fleet that Air India uses is terrible.Tushar Jogi and his family were shell-shocked on Thursday when the news came…
LONDON: Concerns had been raised by whistleblowers for years over the safety of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft which crashed in Ahmedabad on Thursday.John Barnett, who had worked for Boeing for more than 30 years and had been employed as a quality manager at the North Charleston plant, which builds the 787 Dreamliner, had alleged…
