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Imphal: Manipur Police have seized a huge quantity of highly-addictive methamphetamine tablets valued at over Rs 22 crore and arrested a truck driver, officials said here Saturday. A senior official said that the Manipur Police intercepted a truck at New Keithelmanbi Police picket in Imphal...

Mumbai: Air India Saturday announced that it will provide an interim payment of Rs 25 lakh to the families of the deceased and survivors of the Ahmedabad plane crash. This interim payment is in addition to the Rs 1 crore compensation already announced by the...

New Delhi: The fire onboard a Singapore-flagged cargo vessel that occurred June 9 following a container explosion off the Kerala coast has now been 'largely contained' and efforts are underway for boundary cooling to avoid any flare-up, Indian Coast Guard (ICG) officials said Saturday. A...

New Delhi: The Aviation Ministry Saturday said that the last words of the ill-fated Air India flight AI-171 radioed by the cockpit crew were a desperate ‘Mayday, Mayday’, moments before the London-bound aircraft crashed shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad which led to the deaths...

Bhopal: In a significant breakthrough in the ongoing anti-LWE operations, security forces in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district neutralised four insurgents during a fierce encounter in the dense forests of the Pachama Dadar range under Rupjhar police station area. Speaking to IANS, a senior police officer...

New Delhi: Air India Saturday said it is in the process of completing the one-time safety inspections, as mandated by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), for its Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet. This move comes in the wake of the tragic crash of a...

New Delhi: Air India's ill-fated Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner that crashed soon after takeoff from Ahmedabad airport June 12 underwent comprehensive maintenance checks in June 2023 and was due for the next scheduled comprehensive checks in December this year, according to airline officials. The plane en...

New Delhi: Indian gymnast Pranati Nayak clinched a bronze medal in the vault final at the 12th Senior Women's Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Jecheon, South Korea, Saturday. The 30-year-old, who had earlier claimed a bronze at the FIG World Cup in Antalya, Turkey, in...

New Delhi: Air India Saturday said it has done one-time safety checks on nine of its Boeing 787 Dreamliners and the airliner is on track to complete the checks on the remaining 24 such planes as directed by aviation regulator DGCA. In the wake of...

Mumbai: The breach of privilege proceedings against stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra over his parody song targeting Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde will begin soon, a senior official said Saturday. Reacting to the development, Kamra retweeted a news report about the breach of privilege proceedings...