Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J2-8243 crashed last week, killing 38 people, after accidental shooting from the ground in Russia. A Russian probe is ongoing.
The Embraer passenger jet had flown from Azerbaijan’s capital Baku to Grozny, in Russia’s southern Chechnya region, before veering off hundreds of miles across the Caspian Sea.
IAF had confirmed the incident in September via an X post. The 7-second video is being circulated with the claim that Bashar al-Assad was onboard when it crashed near Homs, Syria.
The aircraft was ordered to return to the capital but went off radar and there was no contact with it. Chilima was seen as a potential candidate in next year’s presidential polls.
The plane, a charter ambulance flight travelling from Thailand’s Utapao Airport to Moscow via India and Uzbekistan, was carrying out a private medical evacuation from Thailand.
Vladimir Putin promised a full investigation, but its outcome is unlikely to shake a widespread belief that Prigozhin was killed as an act of vengeance for staging a mutiny late June.
The plane crashed on Wednesday near Russia’s Kuzhenkino on its way from Moscow to St. Petersburg and killed all 10 people on board – seven passengers and three crew members.
The siblings, who belong to an indigenous community, were rescued near the border between Colombia’s Caqueta and Guaviare provinces, close to where the small plane had crashed.
Roma Gupta, 63, died on the spot while daughter Reeva, 33, and the 23-year-old flight instructor, were pulled out of the smouldering plane by a civilian.
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.
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.
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?
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