NEW DELHI: Hoax threat calls continue to wreak havoc on Indian carriers. Since late Friday night till early Saturday, three flights of Air India group received threat messages. Vistara‘s Delhi -London flight diverted to Frankfurt and after a thorough check the aircraft proceeded to its destination. Air India’s Newark-Mumbai was delayed at the origin for…
NEW DELHI: An Air India Express flight IX-196 flying from Dubai to Jaipur, with 189 passengers onboard, received a bomb threat via email in the wee hours of Saturday. However, the authorities have confirmed that nothing suspicious was found after the plane landed at the Jaipur International airport. ‘After a thorough check by the security…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL seeking to fix a three-year outer limit for all courts to clear their cumulative backlog of more than five crore cases, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra.A bench led by CJI D Y Chandrachud told the petitioner that what he was seeking to achieve was very desirable…
DEHRADUN: A traders’ body in Uttarakhand’s Khansar town in Chamoli district, around 260km from Dehradun, has “passed a resolution” asking about 15 Muslim families to leave the town by Dec 31. Some of them have been in Chamoli for decades.The resolution was passed on Wednesday during a meeting of the vyapar mandal, following a ‘chetna’…
MUMBAI: In a night-long operation, Mumbai crime branch arrested five suspected members of the Maharashtra module of Lawrence Bishnoi’s gang allegedly involved in the killing of NCP politician Baba Siddique, taking the total arrests to nine.Three of them — Sambhaji Parthi (44), Pradeep Thombre (37), Chetan Pardhi (27) — are from Ambernath.Nitin Sapre (32) was…
NEW DELHI: A drive to identify children at risk of child marriage, conducted on the directions of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, shows that more than 11.5 lakh children in 27 states and seven UTs, most of them girls, were found “vulnerable” as they had either dropped out of school, were out or…
GUWAHATI: An IAF personnel and his son were swept away by the strong currents of Kameng river in Arunachal and have been missing since Thursday, said disaster management authority officials on Friday.The family of sergeant Bappi Ghosh, stationed at the IAF base in Tezpur, had ventured to Bhalukpung. The son, Hritik Ghosh, went to play…
NEW DELHI: In yet another case of threat being received on social media, Vistara‘s Delhi-London flight of Oct 18 was diverted to Frankfurt late on Friday night. Flight tracking sites show the Boeing 787 landed Frankfurt at 9.02 pm (local time). After being thoroughly checked and getting security cleared, it took off from there 2.5…
MUMBAI: Mumbai police on Thursday received an anonymous ransom message purportedly from an associate of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang demanding Rs 5 crore “to end the feud” with actor Salman Khan.The message said that if the actor did not agree to pay up, he would face the same fate as that of slain former minister…
NEW DELHI: Sugar content in packaged baby foods, safeguarding consumer rights in the banking sector and rising prices of medicines are some of the issues that have come under the scanner of the parliamentary panels.The parliamentary standing committee on consumer affairs, food and public distribution, chaired by DMK leader Kanimozhi, has decided to examine issues…
