Air India plane crash claims at least 241 lives as one passenger survives An Air India plane travelling from India to London crashed within moments of take-off on Thursday, killing 241 passengers and crew, and more people on the ground. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, which took off from the city of Ahmedabad, in western India,…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan, the only Islamic country with nuclear weapons, “strongly condemned” on Friday a wave of Israeli strikes on its neighbour Iran. The strikes, which left key military commanders and nuclear scientists dead, stoked fears of a full-blown war in the region and jeopardised US-Iran nuclear talks set for Sunday in Oman. “Strongly condemn unjustified…
TEHRAN: Israel pounded Iran in a series of air raids on Friday, striking 100 targets including Tehran’s nuclear and military sites, and killing the armed forces’ chief of staff, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and top nuclear scientists. Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Israel it faced a “bitter and painful” fate over…
TEHRAN: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards chief Hossein Salami, who was killed in an Israeli air strike on Tehran Friday, was a veteran officer close to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei known for his tirades against Israel and its US ally. “If you make the slightest mistake, we will open the gates of hell for you,“ the…
TEHRAN: At least six nuclear scientists were killed Friday in Israel’s attacks on Iran, media outlets in the Islamic republic reported. Tasnim news agency named the six scientists including Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, who was the president of the Islamic Azad University of Iran. Fereydoun Abbasi, a former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran,…
BANGKOK: An Air India flight from Thailand’s resort island of Phuket to Delhi requested an emergency landing on Friday due to a bomb threat, Phuket’s airport said, Xinhua reported. Local media reported that Flight AI 379 has later safely landed and the airport has responded with a related plan.
TEHRAN:- Iranian Armed Forces spokesperson, Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi, has confirmed Israeli strikes on Iranian territory, including residential buildings, and says the Islamic Republic’s response to the attacks will be heavy. According to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), Shekarchi said on Friday morning that overnight strikes by the Israeli regime, which he claimed were…
HAMILTON: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday expressed sorrow over the deadly Air India plane crash in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, which claimed more than 200 lives. “The Secretary-General is deeply saddened by the news of the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, on 12 June, which claimed the lives of more…
JERUSALEM: Israel’s army chief said the military’s strikes against Iran on Friday may not achieve “absolute success” and warned citizens to brace for likely retaliation from the Islamic republic. “I can’t promise absolute success — the Iranian regime will attempt to attack us in response, the expected toll will be different to what we are…
NEW DELHI: Aviation authorities have found one of the two black boxes of the Air India flight that crashed in the western Indian state of Gujarat, killing 241 on board, according to local newspaper Hindustan Times, as reported by Xinhua. The London-bound flight crashed on Thursday afternoon shortly after takeoff from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel…
