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TopicAhmedabad Air India crash

Topic: Ahmedabad Air India crash

Montreal Convention to decide final compensation for Air India crash victims’ kin. What it says

The convention was adopted at a diplomatic meeting in Montreal, Canada, in 1999. India became the 91st country to ratify the convention in 2009.

Dream home left unfinished after Kerala nurse, sole breadwinner with 2 kids, dies in Air India crash

Ranjitha G Nair, 39, from Pullad village was returning to London after a short visit home. She worked as a nurse in Qatar for several years before securing a job in UK 7 months ago.

Meet the forensic dentist racing against time so kin of Air India crash victims can say final goodbye

Dr Jayasankar P Pillai and team are extracting DNA from teeth of deceased so they can be matched with samples taken from family members anxiously waiting to claim mortal remains.

We worked shoulder to shoulder in trying times—Modi after meeting ex-CM Vijay Rupani’s family

On his ties with Gujarat ex-CM, Modi says the two worked shoulder to shoulder, including during some of the most challenging times. Rupani, 68, died in Air India AI-171 crash.

She was all set to fly to London on Air India flight 171. A traffic jam saved her life

Bhoomi Chauhan heard about the crash just as she was exiting the airport building, having been turned away from the check-in counter for a 10-min delay.

Car accident last yr, plane crash now—how fate caught up with 24-yr-old student who was on Air India 171

One of the victims of the crash was London resident and hotel management student Kinal Patel, who was in India for treatment following car accident in which she had escaped with broken jaw.

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.

Charred remains to make DNA matching in Air India crash challenging, says forensic university in Gujarat

National Forensic Sciences University has collected 200 DNA samples from family members of deceased & bodies on the ground.

‘Pulled friends from debris, zero visibility’— how BJMC medical students became first responders

Five people from the medical college have died in the crash—four MBBS students and the six-month pregnant wife of a neurosurgery resident. One student is still missing.

Air India crash will ‘cast a cloud over’ country’s aviation ambitions & Boeing’s ‘revitalisation efforts’

Global media terms the crash as the latest in a string of high-profile aviation disasters, raising the question: 'How safe is it to fly?'. They also highlight eyewitness accounts.

On Camera

Tax terror and India’s same-sex couples

Even without entering the debate on marriage equality, India’s laws are already punishing same-sex couples in small and large ways that are rarely discussed.

All bets off as online gaming bill shakes industry & key players suspend ‘gambling’ on their platforms

The new law, which the government has framed as a moral duty, forced major platforms like Dream11 & Zupee to shut operations, wiping out hundreds of crores in market capitalisation. 

Post-Sindoor, joint doctrine tasks Special Forces with fighting info warfare & countering propaganda

Joint Doctrine for Special Forces Operations, released Wednesday, also outlines plans for the future expansion of AFSOD and the creation of Joint Service Training Institutes.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.