Tag: India
Why cockpit audio deepens the mystery of Air India crash
Investigators have made a chilling discovery in the preliminary investigation into the Air India Flight 171 crash which killed 260 people in June. Just seconds after take-off, both of the 12-year-old Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s fuel-control switches abruptly moved to the “cut-off” position, starving the engines of fuel and triggering total power loss. Switching to “cut-off”…
Preliminary report says fuel switches were cut off before Air India Boeing 787 crash
By Joel Rose , Russell Lewis A pair of switches that control the fuel supply to the engines were set to “cutoff” moments before the crash of Air India Flight 171, according to a preliminary report from India’s Air Accident Investigation Bureau released early Saturday in India. A total of 260 people were killed when…
Death toll from plane crash in India climbs to 270 as search teams find more bodies
By The Associated Press AHMEDABAD, India — Search and recovery teams continued scouring the site of one of India’s worst aviation disasters for a third day after the Air India flight fell from the sky and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said Saturday. The London-bound Boeing 787 struck a medical college…
Canada and India to share terrorism intelligence despite 2023 murder plot, says report
Accord comes as Mark Carney seeks shift in Ottawa’s relationship with New Delhi after long diplomatic spat Canada and India plan to share intelligence in an effort to combat the rising threat of international crime and extremism, according to a new report from Bloomberg, days before a meeting between the two countries’ leaders. Canadian officials…
‘I just walked out’: The sole survivor of the Air India crash shares his story
By Rachel Treisman The sole survivor of the Air India crash that killed over 240 people also doesn’t know how he made it out alive. But, lying in a hospital bed on Friday morning, Viswashkumar Ramesh did his best to explain. “I can’t believe myself how I came out of it alive, because for a…
What could have caused Air India plane to crash in 30 seconds?
What exactly happened to Flight AI171 between Ahmedabad and London Gatwick on Thursday afternoon will only be revealed by a detailed investigation, but the moments after take-off can be the most challenging in aviation. Indian investigators will be joined by experts from the US and UK in the coming days, as authorities attempt to establish…
Air India Plane Crash: One Surviving Passenger Reportedly Found Alive
In the hours since an Air India flight crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12, carrying 242 people, officials have been sharing information on the casualties. More information is emerging about the deadly plane crash in India. In the hours since an Air India flight carrying 242 people bound for London crashed shortly after takeoff in…
What we know so far about Air India flight AI171
An Air India passenger plane bound for London Gatwick crashed shortly after taking off in Ahmedabad on Thursday, leaving at least 204 people dead. The flight was carrying 242 passengers and crew, including 53 British nationals, when it came down in the western Indian city. Ahmedabad’s police chief told the BBC that 204 bodies had…
London-bound Air India flight with more than 240 aboard crashes in Ahmedabad, India
By The Associated Press AHMEDABAD, India — An Air India passenger plane bound for London with 244 people onboard crashed Thursday in India’s northwestern city of Ahmedabad, the airline and local media reported. Visuals on local television channels showed smoke billowing from the crash site near the airport in Ahmedabad, a city with a population…
India and Pakistan Remind Us We Need to Stop the Risk of Nuclear War
Opinion India and Pakistan Remind Us We Need to Stop the Risk of Nuclear War The U.S. needs to set an example for the rest of the world by taking our nuclear missiles off hair-trigger alert and negotiating a reduction of our arsenal By Alan Robock & Lili Xia We are living in a scary…
India and Pakistan accuse each other of ‘violations’ after ceasefire deal
India and Pakistan have accused each other of “violations” hours after the two nations said they had agreed to a ceasefire following days of cross-border military strikes. After sounds of explosions were heard in Indian-administered Kashmir, India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said there had been “repeated violations of the understanding we arrived at”. A short…
India and Pakistan accuse each other of violating ceasefire hours after reaching deal
By The Associated Press ISLAMABAD — India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire Saturday after U.S.-led talks to end the most serious military confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades but accused each other of violating the deal just hours later. The ceasefire had been expected to bring a swift end to weeks of escalating…
India and Pakistan trade attacks amid risk of war between nuclear states
By Bilal Kuchay , Diaa Hadid Pakistan’s army said it shot down 25 military drones that fanned over population centers — including the city that houses Pakistan’s general army headquarters. By Thursday evening, residents in Indian border towns reported hearing blasts. Authorities announced blackouts along parts of the border, and the Secretary of State Marco…
What happens next between India and Pakistan? Four key questions
In a dramatic overnight operation, India said it launched missile and air strikes on nine sites across Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, targeting what it called militant positions based on “credible intelligence”. The strikes, lasting just 25 minutes between 01:05 and 01:30 India time (19:35 and 20:00 GMT on Tuesday), sent shockwaves through the region, with…
UK and India agree trade deal after three years of talks
The UK and India have agreed a trade deal that will make it easier for UK firms to export whisky, cars and other products to India, and cut taxes on India’s clothing and footwear exports. The UK government said the “landmark” agreement, which took three years to reach, did not include any change in immigration…
Homes destroyed and 1,500 detained in Kashmir as India cracks down following attacks
By Bilal Kuchay , Omkar Khandekar PULWAMA, India — Indian authorities have detained at least 1,500 people in India-administered Kashmir after a militant attack killed 26 people last week, a top police officer told NPR. Several homes linked to alleged militants were also destroyed. India accused Pakistan of having a connection to the attack —…
After deadly Kashmir attack, India reports exchange of fire with Pakistani soldiers
Diaa Hadid MUMBAI, India — A day after the United Nations appealed for “maximum restraint” between Pakistan and India, the Indian military reported an exchange of fire with Pakistani soldiers on Friday across the de-facto border of the disputed region of Kashmir. Tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors have soared after India blamed Pakistan for…
US extradites Canadian citizen to India for alleged role in deadly Mumbai attacks
Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 64, to stand trial for plotting multiday slaughter carried out by 10 Islamist gunmen A Pakistan-born Canadian citizen wanted for his alleged role in the deadly 2008 Mumbai siege has landed in New Delhi after his extradition from the United States. Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 64, arrived at a military airbase outside the…
India is hoping its manufacturing industry will profit from Trump’s tariffs on China
Diaa Hadid Here in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, many seek work at one company: FoxConn, which manufactures iPhones for Apple. Women make up some 70% of the Sriperumbudur plant’s workforce. Twenty-one-year-old Keerthana, who only has one name, was sleepily waiting for a bus to the FoxConn dormitory housing women employees. She’d arrived in…
Modi Hopes a White House Visit Will Keep India Out of Trump’s Sights
Trump Tariffs India is acutely aware that trade and immigration issues are a potential double whammy. But it believes it can preserve growing ties. By Mujib Mashal Reporting from New Delhi As he prepared to go to Washington this week, India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, spoke of building on the warm relations he shared with…
U.S. Military Plane Deports Migrants to India
Trump Administration The flight appeared to be the first use of an American military aircraft to deport people to India, which is one of the top sources of illegal immigration to the United States. By Suhasini Raj Reporting from New Delhi A U.S. military plane with at least 100 migrants aboard landed in India on…
India, a Big Source of Illegal Migration, Hopes to Navigate the Trump Storm
Trump Administration Trump Administration Trump Administration Fear and uncertainty are rippling through India, which sends more undocumented migrants to the United States than any other country outside Latin America. A temple in the Mehsana district of the Indian state of Gujarat that was built with funding from villagers living abroad, including in the United States.…
India rescuers race to save men stuck in flooded ‘rat-hole’ mine
Rescuers in India are racing against time to bring out miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine in the north-eastern state of Assam. Three of the nine men inside were feared dead, Reuters reported, after the state government said rescue teams had spotted some bodies they have been unable to reach. The men were trapped…
Australia race to victory and series win over India
This video can not be played Australia beat India to claim series victory Border-Gavaskar Trophy: Fifth Test, day three, Sydney India 185 (Pant 40; Boland 4-31, Starc 3-49) & 157 (Pant 61; Boland 6-45) Australia 181: (Webster 57; Siraj 3-51, Krishna 3-42) & 162-4 (Head 34 not out, Webster 39 not out) Australia win by…
India mourns former PM Manmohan Singh with Delhi state funeral
People line streets to pay tribute to man who steered India through some of its most turbulent economic times India bade farewell to former prime minister Manmohan Singh, the architect of the country’s economic transformation, with a state funeral in New Delhi, complete with full honours and a 21-gun salute. Sikh priests chanted hymns as…