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Topic: Ahmedabad

India to host 2029 World Police & Fire Games in Gujarat, first South Asian country to win bid

The athletes will represent police, fire, customs and correctional services departments from 70 countries. India is also bidding to host Olympic Games for the first time in 2036.

Rs 6,000-cr stadium, weekly meetings, 2030 CWG pitch—Ahmedabad’s Olympic plan speeds up

How Ahmedabad is racing to become India’s next sporting capital. It’s all hands on deck.

32 DNA samples matched, 14 bodies handed over to families of Air India crash victims

Process of handing over bodies after DNA testing started Saturday. Civil Hospital Ahmedabad has also ordered coffins in bulk, which have begun arriving in batches at its mortuary complex.

Air India crash: All 4 hostel buildings of BJ Medical College emptied amid site investigation

The aircraft had descended with explosive force onto the residential blocks—Atulyam 1,2,3 and 4—where intern and resident doctors were living.

The crash, the rescue & aftermath—Inside the first 36 hours at ground zero of Air India crash

The Air India flight took off by 1.38 pm Thursday & had crashed by 1.40 pm. Airport’s own fire dept responded immediately & 1st 2 fire engines of Ahmedabad civic body reached by 1.43 pm.

This Air India crash eyewitness cheated death by a whisker—’a blast, then a fireball, just 200 m away’

Meghaninagar resident Krish Patani is still in shock. Had the plane crashed in main residential area, many more lives would have been lost, he says.

Medical college’s exam hall turns into DNA sampling centre. For victims’ kin, it’s the longest test yet

Family members were at the hospital to give their blood for DNA samples, so that the victims could be identified and they could claim the bodies of their loved ones.

Confusion, debris & bodies at Air India crash site. Rescue worker first thought it was cylinder blast

A SDRF staff recalls how an ominous thick black smoke blanketing the sky outside his office gave him a hunch that something was amiss. Team reached crash site at 1.45 pm,he adds.

Singapore PM writes to Modi, extending condolences to families of victims of Air India crash

Lawrence Wong writes that Singapore stands in solidarity with India and the countries whose citizens were impacted by the accident.

Civil aviation advisory body calls for urgent outcome-based probe into Ahmedabad Air India crash

CAPA - Centre for Aviation says it expects Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau to launch, conclude ‘comprehensive probe to determine root cause(s) of this accident’.

On Camera

Can Syria’s tiny Druze minority survive West Asia’s new storms? There’s little hope

Indians see West Asia as one uninterrupted wash of Islam, but the reality is more complex. For the Druze, support from Israel—where they are a recognised minority—is now critical.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.