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Topic: AN-32

At 16,700 ft, on mud strip: IAF pilot on how his AN-32 reopened Daulat Beg Oldi after 43 yrs

Suryakant Chafekar -
Daulat Beg Oldi is adjacent to the Chip Chap river and lies 8 km south and 9 km west of the LAC with China, making it strategically important for India.

IAF chief says AN-32 will continue flying over mountains because there’s no option

Amrita Nayak Dutta -
Air Chief Marshal B.S. Dhanoa said only when new transport aircraft are inducted will the IAF redeploy the AN-32s for training and other purposes.

India v/s Pakistan: No match, says Express; Times looks at ‘maidens’ & ‘fine legs’ at Miss India

Simrin Sirur -
Your daily news capsule.

AN-32 has served IAF for 35 years. We can’t turn our back on ageing workhorse now

ACM S. Krishnaswamy (retd) -
IAF’s search and rescue teams are in urgent need of modernisation. A nationwide integrated civil/military system with a centralised structure is the way out.

Jagran says Kathua rape judgment lesson to all, Dinamani asks why no death penalty

Renu Agal -
A round up of the Hindi and Tamil newspapers opinion pages to reflect a North-South viewpoint on topical issues

IAF plans to stop flying AN-32 over mountains and seas after Arunachal crash

Rahul Singh, HT -
IAF plans to replace AN-32 with Airbus C295 medium transport aircraft and price negotiations for buying 56 of them have been wrapped up.

Times Now got Yogi coverage right, but botched its breaking news on IAF’s AN-32 wreckage

Shailaja Bajpai -
Republic’s ‘Editor Live’ gave us a detailed weather report and description of the terrain where the IAF aircraft had fallen.

TV news preoccupied with Dhawan’s thumb, Pak TV World Cup promo stars Abhinandan lookalike

Simrin Sirur -
Your daily news capsule.

Missing AN-32 wreckage found in Arunachal valley where aircraft was not supposed to be

Snehesh Alex Philip -
IAF's AN-32 aircraft went missing on 3 June while on a routine flight from Assam to Arunachal Pradesh with 13 personnel on board.

Wreckage of missing IAF’s AN-32 aircraft spotted in Arunachal Pradesh

Snehesh Alex Philip -
The IAF aircraft went missing on 3 June with 13 personnel on board while on a routine flight from Assam to Arunachal Pradesh.
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Opinion

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

Gitanjali Das -
When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande

Economy

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

Katharine Gemmell -
President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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