The ATC who handled the flights has been told to undergo 'corrective training'.
Around 1,350 Indians have been evacuated from Yemen and efforts are on to rescue over 2,000 others from various parts of the strife-torn country where situation has deteriorated significantly due to escalation in fighting between warring groups.
'The larger narrative doing the rounds was anti-Hindu, anti-India.' 'Despite the affinity, one could feel the lurking hostility.'
There's wisdom to be found in an unfairly treated man's short and sweet concluding words -- a nation is only as great as our appreciation of the people who make it great, notes Sukanya Verma.
Donald Trump becomes the first American president to visit India with his wife and daughter and son-in-law in tow
'The lay of the runway is not at all safe.' 'Even operating a 737 is dangerous there.' 'During the monsoon, they must ban landing on runway 10.'
In a security scare, a dummy stun-grenade was on Saturday found on board an Air India jumbo plane as it landed at Jeddah in the wee hours, which the airline attempted to downplay but was rebuffed by Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju who called it a "failure".
India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Bangladesh can beat each other on their day
Kumar visited the Paras Hospital, where Prasad has been admitted since Monday, a day after he had a fall at his home and fractured his shoulder.
As India's international role expands, so must our capabilities, says Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
If everything goes as expected, Arya, now a second year graduation student of a Thiruvananthapuram college, would not only become the new mayor of Kerala's capital, a position held by several significant personalities in the past, but also the youngest ever mayor in the country.
India perhaps is the only market in the world where full-service and low-cost fares have become one.
Playing their first season in the ONGC I-League, local outfit Chirag United Sporting Club held favourites Churchill Brothers to a goalless draw at Vidyasagar Stadium in Barasat on Sunday night.
Airlines say they have accepted the directive, though many feel this would give away competitive information on the number of seats at each price point, which could have an adverse impact on business.
Even though troops of India and China have disengaged at three locations in Eastern Ladakh, the Indian side is clear that the tensions on the borders would be done away completely only when the People's Liberation Army de-inducts more than 10,000 troops along with artillery and tank regiments deployed on its side of the Line of Actual Control near the Indian territory.
'I realised what a great leader he was by the way he took decisions to undertake the most-risky of missions.'
I binged on various shows this year -- some for work, some for pleasure, few I couldn't spare time for, others I didn't have access to while some started out fabulously only to fizzle towards the end.
By the time, the story decides it has dilly dallied enough and finally throws light on its long-drawn-out mystery, curiosity has died a natural death, sighs Sukanya Verma.
'Notwithstanding the realisation among the Indian leadership to build up its navy for the force's expanding role, the Indian Navy was allocated only 15% of the interim defence budget presented in Parliament in February 2019.' 'The outlay for the navy's capital acquisition is not even adequate to meet its committed liabilities,' points out Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd).
The planes would now officially be inducted on October 8 into the IAF when Defence Minister Rajnath Singh visits France but the planes would start arriving in India only in May 2020 after validation of the India Specific Enhancements and training of pilots and personnel.
Madhuri Dixit's brief seems to have been to look glamorous, which she does, while others struggle to hold the film together, observes Deepa Gahlot, Maja Ma Review.
The focus of the deliberations was on finalising modalities for disengagement of troops in eastern Ladakh.
IndiGo will complete five years of operations in August 2011, which makes it eligible to fly overseas routes.
According to aviation industry sources, around 630 domestic flights of Monday were cancelled due to the Centre's Sunday night announcement that there would be no flights in West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh, and limited operations at major airports such as Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad.
China's behaviour in the post-pandemic geopolitical landscape which may determine the Quad's future trajectory, notes former foreign secretary Shyam Saran.
'The JF-17 is the aircraft of today and the Tejas is the aircraft of tomorrow.'
Least affected by the recent controversies around her, India's pistol ace Heena Sidhu's primary target is the World Championship
'The 1971 War was our greatest military victory.' 'It had so many stories of exceptional valour and leadership.'
Top commanders of the Indian Army on Monday carried out a comprehensive review of the country's security challenges, including in eastern Ladakh and other sensitive areas along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China, on the opening day of a four-day conference, people familiar with the developments said.
Participating in the continental tournament as guest invitee, the Indians only shot in the MQS section, and hence, their scores were not considered for medals.
Delhi's chief minister claims success, but his ambitious odd even scheme's real test could be on Monday.
Sunder Navalkar devoted her whole life to the cause of workers' rights, remembers Sanober Keashwaar.
The Indian Air Force has 31 fighter squadrons as against authorised strength of 42 squadrons.
One lesson the government should learn from the Air India-Indian Airlines merger fiasco is that combining two sick people ends up making them sicker.
Deepak Chahar first came into prominence as an 18-year-old when took 8/10 in his Ranji Trophy debut to send Hyderabad crashing for a lowly 21 in November 2010.
It was a unique celebration; there is no other instance where Harijans were feted to celebrate India's Independence, says Prakash Bhandari.
The jump in the sale of American weapons to India comes at a time when sale of weapons from the US to other countries has dipped to USD 50.8 billion in 2020 from USD 55.7 billion in 2019.
The search for the black box of the ill-fated Air India flight -- which crashed near Mangalore airport on Saturday morning killing 158 people on board -- will commence at 6.30 am on Monday. Search operations were called off on Sunday due to poor light.Though the search team could detect signals from the black box, it was unable to retrieve the box buried under the massive wreckage at the crash site. The black box is crucial for the investigation.
A model being considered is to have a combined cold chain approach - where the agricultural cold chain would be combined with vaccine cold chains.
Over the years India's governments have turned several public goods into private ones, says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
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