"I request the government to take steps so that he continues to be an Indian," Ali told a news channel.
The aircraft was forced to land at Jaipur airfield by air defence aircraft of the IAF, they said.
A blast took place outside the Israeli Embassy in the heart of Lutyens' Delhi on Friday evening, a fire service official said.
A Central Industrial Security Force head constable on Wednesday allegedly shot dead three of his colleagues attached to the Kalpakkam Nuclear complex in Tamil Nadu and injured two others in their camp.
All airports operating flights to and from Nepal have been put on an alert in the wake of intelligence tipoff about possible attempts by Maoist rebels in the Himalayan kingdom to hijack an Indian aircraft
The police had sought Namdeo's custody to interrogate him for the illegal confinement of his colleagues.
He had killed his senior and held six colleagues hostage for seven hours at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai.
The ace shooter won the gold in the air rifle event, on the opening day of the ISSF World Cup.
'With just 2.4 per cent of global landmass, India houses six to eight per cent of planetary biodiversity and hence is a prime target of wildlife criminals.'
An alert has been sounded at the Mumbai international airport in Mumbai after a message threatening to carry out an attack on the coming Saturday was found scribbled on a wall of a washroom on the airport premises, police said.
Ramnarayan Namdeo, who killed his senior and held six colleagues hostage last week, claims he would have been better off if he had shot himself after the crime, according to police.
The CISF Court of Inquiry will try to ascertain what exactly provoked the constable to take the extreme step.
The prime minister also launched a blistering attack on Banerjee, saying she did not care to express regret after a "leader very close to her" called Scheduled Castes "beggars".
A high-level meeting of the Committee of Secretaries decided that the celebrations must be participated by at least 1,000 central paramilitary force personnel at each locations in ensuring the 'grandeur' of the event across the country.
Indian Airlines whipped Bangladesh XI while Air-India prevailed over CISF in the semi-finals of the Shastri hockey tournament.\n\n
On Wednesday night a jawan had turned his gun on himself after shooting and injuring his colleague.
The areas under threat, include the prime minister's house, the residences of home minister and vice-president, Rashtrapati Bhavan, Rajpath, India Gate and the CGO Complex that houses the headquarters of key agencies such as the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Central Industrial Security Force and the Border Security Force.
Maharashtra continues to remain the worst-affected state with 41,642 cases, followed by Tamil Nadu (13,967 cases), Gujarat (12,905 cases), and Delhi (11,659 cases).
The militants fought a pitched gun-battle with CISF jawans in the camp, destroyed an empty crude oil tank and ransacked an office block before fleeing into a nearby jungle, a senior police officer said.
The Union home ministry on May 13 had declared that these canteens will only sell indigenous or "swadeshi" products from June 1 in a bid to give fillip to domestic industries.
Namdeo was subjected to a number of medical tests to ascertain his physical and mental health.
India forward Prabhjot Singh scored thrice in a 5-1 victory in the Bombay Gold Cup hockey tournament.
The cost of deploying Central Industrial Security Force for aviation security at all functional airports across the country would rise by Rs 138 crore (Rs 1.38 billion) per annum, Civil Aviation Minister Shahnawaz Hussain said.
Stating that at least 16 people of different political parties have lost their lives in the post-poll violence in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party, saying unable to digest defeat in the state elections they were sending central ministers to incite unrest in Kolkata.
A clarification issued by the office of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that a procedure has been put in place for "streamlining and facilitating" the entry of media persons inside the ministry of finance and "no ban is in place" on the entry of media persons in the ministry.
The trial run for one week would be applicable for domestic passengers.
In another match in the Bombay Gold Cup, Prabhjot Singh's brace gave IOC a 2-1 win over Karnataka XI.
The dashing India forward scored three goals in a 4-0 win over CISF in the Bombay Gold Cup hockey tournament.
At major airports like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai and Ahmedabad, Central Industrial Security Forces and local police have shored up security apparatus and passengers are being observed and screened minutely.
Kargil Vijay Diwas is observed on this day every year, marking successful conclusion of the war with Pakistan in the Kargil-Drass sector of Jammu and Kashmir in 1999.
Both teams made the grade via the tie-breaker in the Beighton Cup.
A Central Industrial Security Force trooper was injured on Sunday as terrorists hurled a grenade at a polling booth in Tral constituency of Pulwama district, where polling is to be held on Tuesday.
Five people were killed, including 4 in the firing by Central Industrial Security Force personnel, during the fourth phase of polling
As of now, there is no restriction on the number of people entering the iconic monument complex at any point of time. The average footfall at the monument has increased at a rate of 10-15 per cent per annum.
As part of a new rotation policy of paramilitary forces' squads at the Republic Day parade, the contingents of two other forces -- the Central Reserve Police Force and Central Industrial Security Force -- have been taken out of the event this time, officials said.
