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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday said that no one can blame the pilot-in-command of the Air India Boeing Dreamliner that crashed moments after taking off in Ahmedabad and killing 260 people. The apex court told the 91-year-old father that his son, Sumeet Sabharwal, is not to be blamed and “you should not carry…
An engine on the UPS cargo jet that crashed in Louisville, Kentucky, this week reportedly got detached moments after takeoff. The plane’s left wing also caught fire before it went down, the National Transportation Safety Board said on Wednesday.At least 12 people were killed in the crash, officials said Wednesday. A coroner was at the…
JAIPUR: The Jaipur police Tuesday arrested the dumper driver who ploughed into over 17 vehicles in Harmada on Monday, killing 13 and injuring several others. Chomu ACP Usha Yadav said the accused, Kalyan Meena, was booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and confirmed that the driver was under the influence of alcohol at…
CHEVELLA: A scream. Then, silence — broken only by cries muffled under stone and steel. The bus lay crushed beneath a mountain of gravel, its passengers trapped — some buried up to their necks — as minutes stretched into nearly an hour before rescuers could reach them.“It felt like the whole world had collapsed on…
JAIPUR: At least 10 people died and many others suffered serious injuries after after an out-of-control dumper truck ploughed through nearly a dozen vehicles on the busy Sikar Road in Jaipur’s Harmada area on Monday afternoon.As per media reports, the incident occurred around 1pm near the Lohamandi locality, when traffic was moving normally along the…
Lone AI-171 crash survivor speaks out LEICESTER: Four-and-a-half months after the June 12 crash of Air India flight AI 171 from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, the only survivor, 39-year-old Vishwashkumar Ramesh, remains physically injured, financially strained and deeply traumatised.Vishwash, who was in seat 11A next to the emergency exit, walked away from the burning wreckage…
NEW DELHI: 20 people were killed and several others injured after a tipper lorry collided head-on with a state-run bus in Telangana’s Ranga Reddy district on Monday morning. The bus, belonging to the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC), was travelling from Tandur to Hyderabad when it was struck by a gravel-laden truck near Chevella.According…
Sukhdev Yadav, convicted in the 2002 Nitish Katara honour killing, died in a road accident in Kushinagar just four months after his 20-year prison sentence ended LUCKNOW: Sukhdev Yadav, one of three men convicted in the 2002 Nitish Katara honour killing case that sparked national outrage, died Tuesday night in a road accident in UP’s…
NEW DELHI: Air India MD & CEO Campbell Wilson on Wednesday said the preliminary report of the June 12 Ahmedabad crash showed there’s “nothing wrong” with the airline’s operations and its existing practices. The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) had released its interim report within a month of the crash.“Anything that happens in the industry,…
Lucknow: In a bizarre case, a family in Lucknow’s Gomtinagar area has alleged that their 22-year-old son was driven to suicide on September 3 by an AI chatbot.The youth’s father has demanded through a letter to the police commissioner and integrated grievance redressal system, an independent grievance portal governed by the CM’s office, that an…
