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The wreckage will be in custody of the the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), which is investigating the June 12 Ahmedabad plane crash. The process of shifting the wreckage of the Air India plane, that crashed on June 12 on a medical college hostel in Ahmedabad, to the airport premises here was still on for the third day, officials said on Tuesday. The Gujarat police on Sunday started moving the wreckage on trucks from the crash site in Meghaninagar to GUJSAIL (Gujarat State Aviation Infrastructure Company Limited) building, which is in the airport premises. The ill-fated plane’s tail fin, which…

India, South Africa exchange agreements in domain of submarine cooperation. New Delhi, India and South Africa have exchanged two agreements in the domain of submarine cooperation during a key meeting in Johannesburg as both sides sought to further strengthen bilateral defence ties, according to the defence ministry. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh led an Indian delegation to South Africa for the 9th Joint Defence Committee meeting held in Johannesburg on June 23 and 24, the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. The delegation from South Africa was headed by Acting Secretary for Defence, South Africa, Thobekile Gamede. The first…

The defence ministry said that this decision marks a shift from the earlier system wherein instructions/orders pertaining to two or more services were issued by each service separately. Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday authorised the chief of defence staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan, who also heads the department of military affairs, to issue “joint instructions and joint orders” for the three services, a step aimed at boosting jointness in the armed forces. “This marks a shift from the earlier system wherein instructions/orders pertaining to two or more services were issued by each service separately,” the defence ministry said, calling…

The deadline for non-audit cases is extended to September 15, 2025, while self-assessment tax payments are due by July 31, 2025. The Income Tax Department of India has offered an Excel-based offline utility for filing Income Tax Return-1 (Sahaj) and Income Tax Return-4 (Sugam) for the assessment year 2025-26, i.e the financial year 2024-25. Under this newly introduced utility, employees, pensioners, freelancers, and small business owners will be able to validate their returns by creating a JSON file, uploading to the e-filing portal, and hence, prepare their income tax returns, even without internet access. According to the official website, this…

The list includes drone detection & interdiction systems, low-level lightweight radars, very short-range air defence systems & remotely piloted aerial vehicles. The defence ministry has signed a raft of contracts worth almost ₹2,000 crore through the emergency procurement route to boost the Indian Army’s readiness in counter-terrorism operations in Jammu and Kashmir, with some of these deals concluded after the recent four-day military confrontation with Pakistan under Operation Sindoor, officials aware of the matter said on Tuesday. The weapons and systems ordered include integrated drone detection and interdiction systems, low-level lightweight radars, very short-range air defence systems and remotely piloted…

Search for 2 missing landslide victims continues, yatra to Yamunotri remains suspended. Search for 2 missing landslide victims continues, yatra to Yamunotri remains suspended. Uttarkashi, The search for two missing landslide victims on the Yamunotri trek route continued on Tuesday as the daylong operation yielded no results. The landslide occurred on Monday afternoon at a point known as 9, Kainchi Bhairav Mandir, hitting a group of five pilgrims returning from Yamunotri. Two of them died on the spot. The yatra to the Bahirav temple through the trek route remained suspended during the day with the road and railing near the…

The wedding was scheduled for February, but the man’s family was seeking to call it off at the last minute as the bride reportedly left home for a week. Almost a month after the news of the murder of Indore’s Raja Raghuvanshi shook the country, a seemingly similar case has been reported in Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool. The 28-year-old victim, identified as Tejeshwar, hailed from Gadwal in Telangana, and was found murdered days after he was reported to be missing on June 18, about a month after his marriage. During the investigation, his body was found near Panyam town in Kurnool…

His comments come amid reports suggesting that granting statehood would require the dissolution of the existing assembly. In a strong and direct message on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah clarified that he is ready to step aside if that’s what it takes to restore full statehood to the Union Territory. Speaking to the reporters after attending an event in Gulmarg, Omar Abdullah said, “… I read in a newspaper that if the statehood is to be granted, then the state assembly has to be dissolved. Then let it happen. I am not worried about…

The incident occurred on Monday. The woman had arrived in Udaipur from Delhi on June 22. A French woman, who was allegedly raped in Udaipur, was trapped by the accused in his flat as she went inside to charge her phone, the police said on Tuesday. The suspect, identified by the police as Pushparaj Ojha aka Siddharth, is missing. The incident occurred on Monday. The woman had arrived in Udaipur from Delhi on June 22. She was staying at a hotel in the city’s Ambamata area. The woman said that she had attended a party at The Greek Farm Cafe…

The commander of Basij counterintelligence protection forces was reportedly killed in an Israeli strike on Monday afternoon. Shortly after US President Donald Trump announced once again that a ceasefire between Israel and Iran was “in effect”, several Iranian media reports on Tuesday said that explosions were heard in northern Iran. Later, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) confirmed that Mohammad Taghi Yousefvand, the commander of intelligence protection for Iran’s Basij paramilitary forces, was killed in an Israeli missile strike. “The commander of Basij counterintelligence protection forces was martyred in a Zionist regime attack,” a statement from the IRGC said. The…