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TopicIC 814 hijack

Topic: IC 814 hijack

NDA govt isn’t the villain of IC 814 hijack. Jaswant Singh promised to keep hostages safe

During the hijack, relatives of the hostages were pushing the government to give in to terrorists' demands. They even wanted to trade Kashmir.

Netflix to add new disclaimers to ‘IC 814’ web series after outrage over Hindu names

#BoycottNetflix was trending on X and several users criticised ‘IC 814,’ saying it ‘showed hijackers in a positive light and misled audiences into thinking they were Hindu.’

Netflix’s ‘IC 814’ is an expensive PR job for the ISI—shows R&AW torturing civilians

Nobody involved with the show seems to have any idea of how the intelligence agencies or the Government of India function. Or, for that matter, newspaper offices.

IC 814 web series row: Hostages knew terrorists only by their code names, govt had said after hijack

Makers of Netflix show accused of 'whitewashing' religion of the 5 Pakistanis by not using their actual names, referring to them only as ‘Chief’, ‘Doctor’, ‘Burger’, ‘Bhola’ & ‘Shankar’.

Vajpayee cabinet members deny Yashwant claim that Mamata offered to go to Kandahar during hijack

Yashwant Sinha claimed while joining Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress that she had offered to go and secure the release of IC-814 hostages.

Jaswant Singh — communicator, crisis manager, man of letters and a student of history

Jaswant Singh, a former Army officer, served as external affairs, defence and finance minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's governments from 1998 to 2004.

Why Vajpayee govt chose to swap 3 terrorists with 160 passengers of IC 814 two decades ago

For 55 minutes, when it seemed that the hijacked plane could land in Amritsar, the crisis management group in Delhi acted without urgency.

‘Hijack baby’: How IC 814 Kandahar tragedy shaped Jaswant Singh grand-daughter’s life

After listening to people’s views for years, I now wish to ask my grandfather Jaswant Singh about his personal experience of the Kandahar hijack episode.

On Camera

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Karnataka startups feel the chill as global funding winter sets in. Fintech emerges as sole bright spot

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India and Indonesia inch closer to BrahMos deal, defence ties to ramp up

Indonesia delegation led by Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin visited BrahMos facility & met with top officials & undertook a detailed briefing on the missile system.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.