Mumbai: Aviation watchdog DGCA Monday directed airlines to inspect the fuel switch locking system in their Boeing 787 and 737 planes, two days after AAIB's preliminary report said fuel switches were cut off before the Air India plane crash that killed 260 people last month....
New Delhi: The Centre Monday informed the Supreme Court that the government could do nothing much in the case of an Indian nurse facing execution on July 16 for murder in Yemen. Attorney General R Venkataramani informed a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep...
New Delhi: Air India replaced the Throttle Control Module (TCM) of the crashed Boeing 787-8 plane twice in the last six years following a directive from Boeing in 2019, according to sources. TCM includes fuel control switches, which have come to focus in the ongoing...
New Delhi: Tibet-related issues, including the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, are a "thorn" in India-China bilateral relations and they have become a "burden" for New Delhi, the Chinese embassy said Sunday. The remarks came ahead of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's visit to China...
New Delhi: The Election Commission has activated its poll machinery across states for a possible roll-out of pan-India special intensive revision (SIR) next month just like the one being carried out in Bihar. The move comes after the Supreme Court last week called the SIR...
New Delhi/ Mumbai: The preliminary probe report on the fatal Air India aircraft crash has turned the spotlight on the action of pilots, while the absence of any recommendation for Boeing 787-8 operators seems to have left several questions unanswered as the investigation progresses, experts...
New Delhi: Within seconds of lift off, the engine fuel control switches of Air India's ill-fated Boeing 787-8 plane got switched off, with one of the pilots asking the other why he cut off and the latter responding, saying he did not do so, according...
Bhubaneswar: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi Friday urged party members in Odisha to fight unitedly against the BJP government in the state. Kharge and Gandhi held closed-door meetings with state party leaders shortly after addressing the ‘Samvidhan Bachao Samavesh' in Bhubaneswar....
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday allowed the Election Commission of India to continue with its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, calling it a 'constitutional mandate'. A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi, however, questioned the timing of the...
New Delhi: An Indian commerce ministry team will soon visit Washington for another round of talks on the proposed trade agreement with the US to iron out differences in sectors, like agriculture and automobiles, a government official said Thursday. "We are not differentiating between an...
By Aakar Patel While Gandhi Jayanti is still fresh on our minds and the right to peaceful assembly is in...
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By Dilip Cherian A 10-officer reshuffle at the Additional Secretary level may look like routine housekeeping, but if you look...
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Lately, the Supreme Court’s intervention in high-profile cases does not necessarily arouse confidence and reassurance that wrongs may be righted....
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The recent meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping turned out to be a rather tame...
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