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Topic: Aviation disaster

ThePrint Quiz, 13 July, 2025: Aviation disasters

As AAIB releases preliminary report on AI-171 crash, in this edition of ThePrint Quiz, we look at some of the worst aviation disasters the world has seen over the years.

Why do airplanes still crash?

In 2024, the DGCA proposed new Flight Duty Time Limitation norms to align with global practices. However, under pressure from airlines, implementation was postponed indefinitely.

Rupani’s death reopens old chapter—wartime shootdown of another Gujarat CM & Pakistani pilot’s apology

Balwantrai Mehta remains the 1st & only Indian politician to have been killed in wartime action in the subcontinent. Incident unfolded during a particularly volatile phase of 1965 war.

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Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.