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‘I want to talk to daddy’: Pain of 8-year-old boy whose father died in Ahmedabad plane crash
India News Abhinav died in Ahmedabad plane crash. Ahmedabad: The heartbreaking stories of the families affected by the Ahmedabad plane crash continue to come to light. One such story is of eight-year-old Vivaan, who returned to India from London...

Ahmedabad plane crash: Air India announces additional Rs 25 lakhs each for families of victims
India News Air India, owned by Tata Goup, announced additional Rs 25 lakh for families of those who died in the incident, as well as the sole survivor. A crane being used to clear the debris of the crashed Air India plane in Ahmedabad on Saturday....

America needs to adopt Japanese convenience culture
One of the most widely discussed cultural differences online between Japan and the United States is the idea of convenience, from vending machines on every street to a transportation system that gets people from one place to another quickly. Japan...

These are the safest seats on an aeroplane, train, car, bus, and ship; details inside
Home Viral These are the safest seats on an aeroplane, train, car, bus, and ship; details inside Adjust the height of the seat according to the best possible safe view. (Representational image: unsplash) New Delhi: People who travel around using...

Google's comeback in smart glasses partners with a Chinese startup
More than a decade after the initial market challenges of Google Glass, Google is re-entering the smart glasses space, now collaborating with a Chinese startup, XREAL. First announced at Google I/O 2025 and later detailed at this week's Augmented...

Don’t let China dominate the hydrogen future
The race for global leadership in hydrogen is underway—and the United States is dangerously close to falling behind. China is making a massive, coordinated push to control the hydrogen supply chain and dominate the next era of energy. In 2024...

“When You Almost Miss Your Train In Japan Because Your Husband Stopped To Look At A Giant Salamander…”
Mason & Jordan are traveling around the world on a budget. Their current adventure has them in Japan. They are hiking and using inexpensive public transportation to tour the country. On their way to catch a train, they stopped because Jordan...

Book Excerpts: Apple in China by Patrick McGee | Tied to the Dragon
By Patrick McGee (author of the book) There are five reasons to predict Apple’s relationship with China will face major risks this decade: (1) The Chinese company that poses the biggest threat to Apple, Huawei, is back with a vengeance. Just four...

Small detail in Brit survivor's memory of Air India plane crash could solve mystery
The British national who managed to walk away from the Air India plane crash has dropped a clue on what may have caused the horror accident. Vishwash Ramesh was the sole survivor of Thursday's incident, which saw the Boeing 787 Dreamliner in...

Black boxes of ill-fated Air India Boeing 787 aircraft might be the first big test of AAIB’s brand new, cutting-edge laboratory
The black boxes of the ill-fated Air India Boeing 787-8 aircraft that crashed in Ahmedabad on Thursday may be decoded and analysed by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) at its brand new state-of-the-art laboratory that was...

Self-Driving Truck Startup Plus Goes Public In $1.2B SPAC Merger, Backed By Wall Street Titan Michael Klein And Hyundai
Plus Automation last week announced it would merge with special purpose acquisition company Churchill Capital Corp IX CCIX that values the startup at $1.2 billion and brings $300 million in fresh capital for its push into autonomous trucking by...

Govt forms high-level committee to probe Air India AI171 crash; report expected in three months
The Central government on Saturday constituted a high-level committee, headed by Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan, to investigate the crash of Air India flight AI171 in Ahmedabad on June 12, which claimed the lives of 241 people. The committee,...

Air India pilot's chilling mistake led to horror crash, aviation expert claims
The co-pilot on the doomed Air India flight AI171 pulled the plane's wing flaps instead of retracting the landing gear, according to an aviation expert. This simple - but devastating - mistake caused the plane to crash into the medical college in...

Ahmedabad Plane Crash: Centre orders Boeing 787 checks as black box is recovered, says ‘every theory will be analysed’
Ahmedabad Plane Crash: A high-level panel has been set up to investigate the causes of the Ahmedabad plane crash and the investigation is progressing smoothly, the government said on Saturday. The black box of Air India's Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner...

HBL Engineering secures Rs 132.95 crore kavach contract from South Central Railway
HBL Engineering Limited has received a Letter of Acceptance (LoA) from the South Central Railway for the implementation of Kavach, the indigenously developed Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system, along the Vijayawada–Ballarshah section. The...

“Modi Govt’s 11 Years of Good Governance puts India on Track to become World’s Third-Largest Economy by 2029”: Sarbananda Sonowal
Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways, Shri Sarbananda Sonowal declared that India is firmly on track to become the world’s third-largest economy by 2029, crediting 11 years of Narendra Modi’s “decisive and corruption-free” governance for...

Coordinate with Air India for transferring bodies to another state or country: Gujarat government
Gujarat government on Saturday asked families of those killed the aircraft crash in Ahmedabad to coordinate with Air India for transporting bodies of their kin to another state or country. The state government said it arrange local transport, free...

Plane crash: Air India to provide Rs 25 lakh interim compensation
Investigators scour debris for clues to cause of plane crash
Agencies recover black box, Prime Minister visits scene Ahmedabad: Investigators on Friday recovered Black box of the London-bound Air India plane from the rooftop of a medical college hostel here a day after it crashed and rammed into the...
Bhutan King, Queen and fourth Druk Gyalpo attend prayer ceremony in memory of Air India plane crash victims
Thimphu [Bhutan], June 14 (ANI): Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, his father, and Queen Jetsun Pema Wangchuck attended the prayer ceremony here on Saturday in memory of the victims of the plane crash in Ahmedabad and offered condolences...