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Air India Plane Crash: At least 17 people, including both the pilots were killed after an Air India Express plane with 190 on board from Dubai skidded off the runway and broke in two while landing at Kerala's Kozhikode on Friday amid heavy rain.

An Air India Express flight from Dubai with 191 people onboard overshot the runway at Kozhikode airport on Friday amid rainy conditions and went down 35 feet into a slope before breaking up into two pieces, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said.

Screams of pain, blood soaked clothing, terrified children and the blare of ambulance sirens captured the distressing scene that unfolded at Kozhikode after the ill-fated aircraft from Dubai crash landed and fell into a valley with a deafening sound, killing at least 17 people on Friday.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday claimed that Hilal Rather, son of former Jammu and Kashmir minister Abdul Rahim Rather, "siphoned off" money loaned to his company to splurge on foreign tours and acquire personal assets in India, Dubai and the US.

India has told the UN Security Council that Dawood Ibrahim, who perpetrated the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, and other UN-designated terrorists "unsurprisingly" continue to enjoy "patronage" in a neighbouring country, calling for focused international efforts to address threats posed by the fugitive gangster and terror groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed.

Coronavirus Live Updates: India's coronavirus cases breached the 20-lakh mark after a massive surge of 62,538 new cases on Friday, the Union Health Ministry said. The 24-hour jump is the biggest single-day jump, the ministry said, adding that about 13.78 lakh patients have recovered so far.

Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card holders from the US, UK, Germany and France, with whom India has signed 'air bubble' arrangements, will be allowed to visit the country, the Home Ministry announced on Friday.

Two Madhya Pradesh officials were transferred on Friday after BJP's National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya questioned the police action against traders and the local youth of the state's Khargone district for celebrating the groundbreaking ceremony of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya with fireworks on the streets.

A coronavirus positive woman and her two children had to spend a night on the verandah of a hospital in Jharkhand's Dhanbad, prompting Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Friday to pull up the district administration, officials said.

The CBI has charged former director general of Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) PC Chaturvedi and seven others for alleged violation of CVC guidelines in sanctioning 14 projects worth over Rs 6,255 crore between 2007 and 2009, officials said on Friday.

The Ministry of External Affairs on Friday said it was deeply saddened by the Air India Express accident in Kerala's Kozhikode and that its 24X7 helplines are open for those affected by the incident.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday claimed that a Defence Ministry report mentioning Chinese 'transgressions' has "damaged" the image of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.

The Delhi government has extended timings for opening of liquor shops in the national capital by one hour. An official said the move will also help increase the government's revenue.

The CBI has collected the case diary and related documents from the Bihar police in connection with the alleged suicide of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, officials said on Friday.

Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Friday said that perpetrators for hooch tragedy would not be spared at any cost and properties of those responsible would be confiscated.