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Patel Family Cancelled June 6 Flight, Then Boarded Doomed Plane To London
- Jun 14, 2025 13:04 pm IST
- Reported by: Abhishek Sureshkumar Awasthi
- Edited by: Samiran Mishra
Located approximately 76 km from Ahmedabad, Anand is known as Gujarat's 'NRI City'. Of the 274 people who died in the Ahmedabad plane crash on Thursday, 33 from Anand were on board the doomed Flight AI171 en route to London Gatwick.
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Shubhanshu Shukla's Axiom Mission Gets New Launch Date After 5 Delays
- Jun 14, 2025 12:42 pm IST
- Written by: Pallava Bagla
After several delays, Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is likely to fly to the International Space Station on June 19, the Indian Space Research Organisation said in an update.
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Story Of Payal Khatik, The Happy London-Bound Woman On Plane That Crashed
- Jun 14, 2025 12:36 pm IST
- Reported by: Mahendra Prasad
Payal Khatik, a young woman from Rajasthan, was on the ill-fated Air India Ai-171 flight from Ahmedabad to London that crashed June 12; she was one of 242 people flying to London's Gatwick, in her case for higher studies.
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Woman Says Father Came To India For His Favourite Fruit, Died In Crash
- Jun 14, 2025 12:30 pm IST
- Asian News International
Ramesh Chand Patel, a British national came to India on June 4. He was here just for nine days to eat the Jambura fruit, his daughter said.
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"Safest Seat To Sit On A Plane Is...": What Expert Said After Air India Crash
- Jun 14, 2025 12:09 pm IST
- Edited by: Liu Chuen Chen
One passenger on Air India flight 171 walked away as the sole survivor, after the aircraft crashed in Ahmedabad earlier this week, in what was one of the worst air disasters in India in recent times.
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"Windows Were Rattling, Furniture Shaking": When Air India Plane Crashed
- Jun 14, 2025 10:56 am IST
- Asian News International
Rekha Kshtriya, an eye witness of the AI 171 plane air crash recalled the chilling moments after the sheer tragedy and stated that even though her family was accustomed to loud noises, the sound of the crash felt like their eardrums would burst.
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Israeli Military Apologises Over Wrong India Map After Huge Online Backlash
- Jun 14, 2025 09:10 am IST
- NDTV News Desk
In a first, the Israel Defense Forces has apologised for posting an incorrect map of India - which "fails to precisely depict borders", i.e., the image wrongly showed Jammu and Kashmir as belonging to Pakistan.
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North India To Get Relief From Severe Heat Starting Today
- Jun 14, 2025 08:28 am IST
- Indo-Asian News Service
After weeks of extreme heatwave conditions, North India is finally expected to see relief beginning Saturday, as per the latest forecast from the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
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Central Panel To Probe Ahmedabad Plane Crash, Submit Report In 3 Months
- Jun 14, 2025 08:27 am IST
- Asian News International
The government has constituted a high-level multi-disciplinary committee for examing the causes leading to the crash of the Air India Flight AI-171 from Ahmedabad to Gatwick Airport (London) on June 12, that left 241 people dead.
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"Lucky To Be Sitting Close To Cockpit": 1993 Indian Airlines Crash Survivor
- Jun 14, 2025 08:19 am IST
- Press Trust of India
Vasant Chavan, a former mayor of Parbhani, said that he survived the tragedy only because he was sitting near the cockpit and not in the rear part where the fuel tank was located.
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Eerie Parallels Between Ahmedabad Crash And 1978 'Emperor Ashoka' Tragedy
- Jun 14, 2025 08:13 am IST
- NDTV News Desk
The catastrophic crash of Air India flight AI 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, into a residential area near Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad on Thursday bears a startling resemblance to the plunge of Air India flight AI 855.
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Ahmedabad Plane Crash Deaths Rise To 274, Include Those On Board And On Ground
- Jun 14, 2025 07:35 am IST
- Edited by: Liu Chuen Chen
At least 274 people were killed in one of India's deadliest plane crashes involving a London-bound Air India flight in Ahmedabad earlier this week, sources said on Saturday.
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"Hard To Believe": Amit Shah On Death Of Vijay Rupani, Extends condolences
- Jun 14, 2025 06:59 am IST
- Asian News International
Union Home Minister Amit Shah expressed deep sorrow over the death of former Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani in Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad.
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Doctor Family Was Moving To London On Doomed Flight. Father Shares His Story
- Jun 14, 2025 06:10 am IST
- Asian News International
Dr Prateek Joshi, a radiologist working in London, his wife, Dr. Komi Joshi, a pathologist from Rajasthan, and their three children were among the 241 passengers who were killed in Air India plane crash on Thursday.
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India Demands Bangladesh "Rein In Terrorists" After Tagore's Home Vandalised
- Jun 14, 2025 05:33 am IST
- Written by: Abhishek Chakraborty
India has strongly condemned the "despicable" and "disgraceful" act of violence and vandalism on poet, polymath, and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's ancestral home in Bangladesh, describing the perpetrators of the act as "terrorists".
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Exclusive: Veteran Pilot Who Flew Same Dreamliner That Crashed Shares Insights
- Jun 14, 2025 01:02 am IST
- Reported by: Shiv Aroor
- Edited by: Debanish Achom
A senior commercial pilot who has flown the same Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner that crashed in Gujarat's Ahmedabad on Thursday spoke to NDTV for the first time in an exclusive interview on what may have gone wrong with the aircraft.
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"Brilliant, Disciplined": Professor Remembers Co-Pilot Of Plane That Crashed
- Jun 14, 2025 00:12 am IST
- Reported by: Anuj Sahebrao Rayate
"Very difficult for me to digest the news," a professor of Clive Kunder, the co-pilot of the ill-fated Air India Ahmedabad-London flight, broke down as she remembered her "brilliant and disciplined" student.
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Congress, BJP Conspiring To Defame KCR Over Irrigation Project: KTR
- Jun 14, 2025 00:04 am IST
- NDTV News Desk
Telangana's BRS working president KT Rama Rao alleged that the Congress and BJP have conspired to defame former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao over the Kaleswaram lift irrigation project.
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Andhra Journalist Arrested For Defamatory Remark Made On Show Gets Bail
- Jun 13, 2025 23:56 pm IST
- NDTV News Desk
A journalist from Andhra Pradesh has been granted bail by the Supreme Court after being arrested for a derogatory comment made by a panellist on his show.