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Onam 2025 is approaching, celebrating King Mahabali's return with vibrant festivities. Kerala transforms into a spectacle of flower carpets, boat races, and grand feasts. The festival blends tradition with modern expressions through wishes, messages, and social media statuses. It emphasizes community, joy, and the spirit of sharing during this auspicious time. The auspicious Onam festival is round the corner, which honours King Mahabali, the benevolent ruler who returns every year to check in o ...Read More >
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], August 4 (ANI): The Jharkhand government declared a three-day state mourning, starting Monday, following the passing of the state's former Chief Minister and co-founder of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Shibu Soren. "In honour of the late Honourable former Chief Minister-cum-Rajya Sabha MP, the State Government has decided to observe 03 (three) days of state mourning from August 4 to August 6," the message from the Jharkhand government read. Also Read | Kerala Shocker: 47- ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], August 4 (ANI): Air India Express flight IX2718, which took off from Bengaluru, was forced to return to the airport on Sunday after encountering a technical issue mid-air, the airline said on Monday. According to a spokesperson from Air India Express, the aircraft executed a precautionary landing after circling in the air to burn fuel and reduce its weight. The manoeuvre was carried out in line with standard safety procedures. Also Read | Kerala Shocker: 47-Year-Old Man Dies ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A Kolkata-bound Air India Express flight returned to Bengaluru on Sunday evening due to a technical issue. Flight IX2718, operated by an Airbus A320, turned back after being airborne for over two hours, according to data from flight tracking website Flightradar24.com. "One of our flights from Bengaluru returned to the airport following a technical issue. The aircraft circled to reduce fuel and weight before executing a safe, precautionary landing," an Air India Express spokesperson ...Read More >
An Air India Express flight from Hyderabad to Phuket returned to Rajiv Gandhi Airport due to a technical issue. Passengers waited without clear communication. A Phuket-bound Air India Express flight from Hyderabad returned to city's Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on Saturday morning shortly after takeoff due to a technical issue. According to flight tracking data from FlightRadar24, Air India Express flight IX110 (Hyderabad-Phuket), operated by a Boeing 737 Max 8 (registration VT-BWA), too ...Read More >
India's Most Wanted, Pakistan's Most Protected: 7 Dreaded Terrorists Who Roam Freely In Islamabad Hyderabad-Phuket Air India Express Flight: A Phuket-bound Air India Express flight returned to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad on Saturday shortly after take-off due to a technical issue. The flight was originally scheduled to land in Phuket at 11.45 am. Flight IX110, operated by a Boeing 737 Max 8, took off to its destination but returned to Hyderabad with a total airborne time of ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Actor Vijay Deverakonda is all set to return to the silver screen in a never-seen-before avatar with Kingdom, an action drama film that focuses on the themes of betrayal, vengeance, and redemption. The upcoming film is scheduled to release across India on July 31, and its Hindi version has officially been titled Saamrajya. Directed by Gowtam Tinnanuri, best known for the National Award-winning Jersey, Kingdom/Saamrajya features Deverakonda in a rugged and physically intense role. The ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Jul 19 (PTI) An Air India Express flight (IX 110) from Hyderabad to Phuket on Saturday returned to its origin shortly after it took off due to technical snag, Rajiv Gandhi International Airport sources said. The aircraft, Boeing 737 Max 8, which was carrying 98 passengers, landed safely back at 6.57 AM, they said. "One of our flights returned to Hyderabad shortly after take-off due to a technical issue. The crew elected to return out of an abundance of caution," an Air India Express ...Read More >
Patna, July 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a major action against corruption, the State Vigilance Unit (SVU) on Saturday arrested Sub-Inspector Putul Kumari, the SHO of the Women's Police Station in Samastipur, for accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000. Her driver was also arrested in the case. The arrest has created a stir within the police department. According to an official, Putul Kumari was caught red-handed while taking the bribe from Rajiv Ranjan, a resident of Chhatauna village under Mufassil police ...Read More >
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], July 19 (ANI): An Air India Express flight IX 110 from Hyderabad to Phuket on Saturday was diverted back to Hyderabad shortly after departure due to technical issue. Air India Express Spokesperson in its statement said, Shortly after take-off, crew on one of our flights exercised abundant caution and elected to return to Hyderabad on account of a technical issue. We arranged an alternative aircraft on priority, provided refreshments to guests during the delay, an ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Jul 19 (PTI) An Air India Express flight (IX 110) from Hyderabad to Phuket on Saturday returned to its origin shortly after it took off due to technical snag, Rajiv Gandhi International Airport sources said. The aircraft, Boeing 737 Max 8, which was carrying 98 passengers, landed safely back at 6.57 AM, they said. Also Read | 'Mumbai Ke Samundar Mein Dubo Dubo Ke Maarenge': Amid Verbal Spat Between Raj Thackeray and Nishikant Dubey Over Hindi Language Debate in Maharashtra, Ramdas A ...Read More >
Shillong, Jul 19 (PTI) Meghalaya Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong has said the state government will press for the retransfer of block I and II from Assam's Karbi Anglong district, asserting that the long-pending boundary issue remains a top priority. Tynsong, who also chairs the regional committee on the matter, said the government is awaiting a response from his Assam counterpart to schedule a joint inspection of the disputed areas. Also Read | Prayagraj Road Accident: Speeding Car Run ...Read More >
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], July 19 (ANI): An Air India Express flight IX 110 from Hyderabad to Phuket on Saturday was diverted back to Hyderabad shortly after departure due to technical issue. Air India Express Spokesperson in its statement said, "Shortly after take-off, crew on one of our flights exercised abundant caution and elected to return to Hyderabad on account of a technical issue". Also Read | 'BJP Trying to Suppress Me but I Will Neither Get Scared nor Suppressed', Says Bhupesh ...Read More >
Mumbai, July 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Amid the ongoing verbal spat between Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray and BJP MP Nishikant Dubey over the Hindi language debate in Maharashtra, Union Minister and Republican Party of India (Athawale) president Ramdas Athawale on Saturday has called for restraint, urging all parties to maintain peace and avoid statements that could disrupt Mumbai's communal harmony. Responding to the exchange of inflammatory remarks, Athawale said, "Such state ...Read More >
New Delhi: A Phuket-bound Air India Express flight returned to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad on Saturday shortly after take-off due to a technical issue. The flight was originally scheduled to land in Phuket at 11.45 am. Flight IX110, operated by a Boeing 737 Max 8, took off to its destination but returned to Hyderabad with a total airborne time of just 16 minutes, leaving passengers frustrated. Air India Express Spokesperson's Statement An Air India Express spokesperson sai ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) A Phuket-bound Air India Express flight returned to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad on Saturday shortly after take-off due to a technical issue. The flight was originally scheduled to land in Phuket at 11.45 am. Flight IX110, operated by a Boeing 737 Max 8, took off to its destination but returned to Hyderabad with a total airborne time of just 16 minutes, leaving passengers frustrated. An Air India Express spokesperson said in a statement th ...Read More >
Hyderabad: An Air India Express flight heading to Phuket, Thailand, made an emergency return to Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Airport just 16 minutes into the flight from takeoff on Saturday morning, July 19, owing to a reported technical malfunction. Flight IX110, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 (VT-BWA), departed at about 6:41 a.m. and arrived back at 6:57 a.m., after flying into airspace above Andhra Pradesh. The flight, which was initially due to depart at 6:20 a.m., was already delayed by abou ...Read More >
AHMEDABAD, India - Air India Flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, vanished from the skies above Ahmedabad and crashed into a residential neighbourhood just seconds after takeoff on June 12, 2025. With 260 lives lost, including 241 people on board and 19 on the ground, questions continue to surround what went wrong in those brief, chaotic moments. The latest findings from India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) reveal that both engines lost power after the fuel control switches w ...Read More >
The DGCA is expected to advise airlines using Boeing 787s to inspect the locking mechanism of fuel control switches, in the wake of the Air India crash preliminary report. Amid the ongoing probe with the Air India plane crash, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is likely to instruct airlines to check the locking mechanism of fuel switches, according to CNBC-TV18. The report quoted sources as saying that the DGCA directive would be issued to airlines using Boeing 787 aircraft, and ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Four people died in Himachal Pradesh as rain continues to wreak havoc in the state, while five were swept away in Rajasthan's Kota at a barrage after a heavy downpour caused the authorities to release water from a reservoir. In Himachal, more than 200 roads are out of bounds for vehicular traffic, a majority of them in Mandi, while a flash flood warning has been issued for 12 districts in Jharkhand. An individual each drowned in Kullu and Kangra districts, one died after being bitte ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has directed all Indian carriers operating Boeing 787 and 737 aircraft to inspect the fuel switch locking system by 21 July 2025. This move follows a preliminary investigation into the recent Air India Boeing 787 crash, which revealed that fuel supply to both engines was cut off moments before the accident. According to PTI, DGCA noted that several global and domestic operators have started inspecting their fleets in line with the FAA' ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, July 14 (Xinhua) -- India's civil aviation watchdog, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), on Monday asked airlines to inspect the fuel switch locking system in their Boeing airplanes. The DGCA said airlines should complete the inspection and confirm compliance by July 21 in line with the Special Airworthiness Information Bulletins (SAIB) issued by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The SAIB was regarding the potential disengagement of the fuel control switch loc ...Read More >
Mumbai: The much-anticipated secondary airport for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), the Navi Mumbai airport, is now expected to be inaugurated on Sept 30. Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis had confirmed the new date.Sources said scheduled domestic flights will begin only months later. Commercial operations will begin gradually, with the airport to be open only for a 12-hour window from 8am to 8pm in the initial months. When international flights start, sometime early next year, the airport i ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Air India has begun inspection of all Boeing aircraft in its fleet following the release of the preliminary report on the Ahmedabad flight crash by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AIIB). The report cited a December 2018 directive from the US-based Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on possible disengagement of fuel control switches in Boeing aircraft. This weekend, Air India initiated checks on the locking mechanisms of all its Boeing 787 aircraft. Its subsidiary, Air ...Read More >
Mumbai: Aviation regulator DGCA on Monday asked airlines to inspect the fuel switch locking system in their Boeing 787 and 737 planes, a move that comes days after the preliminary probe report into the Air India's Boeing 787 crash found that the switches were cut off before the accident last month. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), back in 2018, had flagged the potential disengagement of the fuel control switch locking feature on certain models of Boeing aircraft, including 787s and 73 ...Read More >
New Delhi/Mumbai, Jul 13 (PTI) A five-member team, headed by 56-year-old Sanjay Kumar Singh, is probing the fatal crash of the Air India aircraft last month in Ahmedabad that killed 260 people. Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) Director Singh is the Investigator-in-Charge and Deputy Director Jasbir Singh Larhga is the Chief Investigator. Also Read | Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Approves To Install CCTV Cameras in All 74,000 Coaches To Enhance Passenger Safety. There are also ...Read More >
New Delhi/Mumbai, Jul 13 (PTI) A five-member team, headed by 56-year-old Sanjay Kumar Singh, is probing the fatal crash of the Air India aircraft last month in Ahmedabad that killed 260 people. Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) Director Singh is the Investigator-in-Charge and Deputy Director Jasbir Singh Larhga is the Chief Investigator. There are also three Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) officials in the investigation team -- Deputy Director Vipin Venu Varakoth, Assi ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 13 (PTI) It will be too premature to draw conclusions on the role of pilots from the preliminary investigation report into the fatal crash of Air India plane last month and the final report will mention about the most probable cause for the accident, former AAIB chief Aurobindo Handa said on Sunday. A day after the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) released its preliminary report into the crash that killed 260 people, he said, "We should allow AAIB to complete the inv ...Read More >
NEW DELHI - A preliminary report into the Air India crash that killed 260 people in June showed three seconds after taking off, the plane's engines' fuel cutoff switches almost simultaneously flipped from run to cutoff, starving the engines of fuel. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner immediately began to lose thrust and sink down, according to the report released on July 12 by Indian aviation accident investigators. One pilot can be heard on the cockpit voice recorder asking the other why he cut off th ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian investigators of the deadly Air India airliner crash that killed 260 last month told a meeting of lawmakers that the plane's black boxes were not damaged, two people familiar with the discussions said. The revelation about the devices critical to reconstructing the events leading up to an air crash, comes after Indian media said they were damaged when the London-bound Boeing Dreamliner crashed on June 12, to erupt in a massive fireball. The Aircraft Accident Investi ...Read More >
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