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At least 290 people have been confirmed dead after an Air India passenger jet crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad airport on Friday morning, Indian health officials said. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, bound for London, struck a nearby doctors’ hostel on the airport’s perimeter, leaving its tail section protruding from the building. The death toll includes passengers, crew, and individuals ...

Police in Indian city of Ahmedabad said they had collected 204 dead bodies after a London-bound passenger plane with 242 people on board crashed into residential buildings after takeoff on Thursday, reports AFP. “We have found 204 bodies,” city police commissioner GS Malik told AFP, adding that 41 injured people were “under treatment”. The dead included those from the plane ...

Ahmedabad’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport is currently non-operational, with all flight operations suspended until further notice, a spokesperson confirmed on Thursday, reports BBC. The suspension follows a tragic incident involving Air India Flight AI171, which was travelling from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick. The aircraft, carrying 242 people on board, crashed shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad in western India. According ...

An Air India plane crashed at the airport in India’s western city of Ahmedabad, television channels reported on Thursday. The plane was heading towards London, an aviation source told Reuters. The aircraft, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner registered as VT-ANB, had just departed from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport en route to Gatwick Airport in London when it went down in ...

Several thousand people took to the streets of New York City on Tuesday to protest the immigration policies of US President Donald Trump. The demonstration followed a wave of nationwide outrage over recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids targeting undocumented immigrants. Protesters initially gathered at Foley Square, a plaza near a courthouse where several migrants were detained the previous ...

US President Donald Trump has ordered law enforcement authorities to arrest the protesters who are wearing masks as tensions in Los Angeles escalated on Sunday amid mass demonstrations over the immigration crackdown. On Sunday, Trump imposed a ban on the use of masks at protests, while commending the National Guard, a reserve military force typically under the authority of state ...

Saudi Arabia has temporarily suspended the issuance of work and Umrah visas for applicants from 14 countries, including Bangladesh. The Restrictions have also been placed on the issuance of family visit visas. The order, effective from May 31, will remain in place until June 30. The other affected countries are Pakistan, India, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Nigeria, Jordan, Algeria, Sudan, Ethiopia, ...

President Donald Trump can bar The Associated Press from some White House media events for now, a federal appeals court ruled Friday, pausing a lower court order to give access to the US news agency’s journalists. AP journalists and photographers have been barred from the Oval Office and from traveling on Air Force One since mid-February because of the news ...

Eidul Adha is being celebrated today in Saudi Arabia, Uk, Usa, UAE and other Gulf nations with religious fervour. Large congregational prayers were held at Masjid al-Haram in Makkah and Masjid an-Nabawi in Madinah. According to details, Eid prayers were performed this morning in the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah, where thousands of worshippers gathered. Sheikh Maher Al-Muaiqly led ...

Muslim pilgrims prayed atop Mount Arafat on Thursday during the high point of the annual hajj pilgrimage, as Saudi officials called on participants to refrain from being outside during the hottest hours of the day. Thousands of pilgrims were beginning to gather before dawn around the hill and the surrounding plain where the Prophet Mohammed is believed to have given ...