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Friday, September 12, 2025
TopicAir India

Topic: Air India

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.

Air India crash: Family supplying tiffin to medical college awaits news on missing kin, including 2-yr-old

55-year-old Sarla Ben & her granddaughter were at the hostel mess of BJ Medical College at the time of the crash, say family members, and have been missing ever since.

Air India flight from Phuket to New Delhi makes emergency landing after bomb threat

All 156 passengers on flight AI 379 have been escorted from the plane, in line with emergency plans, says Airports of Thailand official.

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.

From retrieving black box to setting up ‘court of inquiry’, how probe into Air India crash will unfold

An aviation safety firm's CEO says a team from the Indian aviation regulator & those from every regulator where the aircraft is operated are expected to visit the crash site soon.

Tea, food and crowd control—RSS cadres aid families, relief work after Air India plane crash

Scores of RSS cadres spread out across incident site & at BJ Medical College, keeping crowds organised, providing families of victims with food and water as they navigate a tragedy.

Vijay Rupani, Modi’s go-to man & the CM who stood tall among the tallest of Gujarat leaders

Rupani steered the BJP through challenging times in Gujarat including the Patidar agitation. He was also jailed during the Emergency.

How victims of Mangaluru, Kozhikode Air India crash are seeing Ahmedabad crash

Abdur Rahman Edakkauni, a survivor of the 2020 Air India plane crash, has advice for Ahmedabad victims. "It’ll be a long road, but you must stand with each other."

What Air India’s fleet looks like in 2025

In April 2025, Air India announced a $400 million fleet upgradation programme, which lists a total of 198 aircraft as part of its fleet.

‘Working with local officials in India to provide support’ — UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy on plane crash

‘Working with local officials in India to provide support’ — UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy on plane crash

On Camera

Coup, conspiracy & the foreign hand—What Indian TV news channels saw in Nepal this week

‘Gen Z v/s Govt’ TV news coverage went for two days—not sure about the source of the telecast from Kathmandu since no credit was given.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Punjab is fast becoming the new Northeast. And there’s a message in it for Modi

In its toughest time in decades because of floods, Punjab would’ve expected PM Modi to visit. If he has the time for a Bihar tour, why not a short visit to next-door Punjab?