A private coaching class trip from Alandi in Pune to Diveagar turned into a tragedy after eight students who had gone on a picnic drowned. Initial information suggests that all eight students drowned after entering the water.
The Omani co-pilot who allegedly attempted to hijack and crash a flydubai aircraft carrying 174 passengers, mostly Israelis, has been described as a "religious extremist" by a fellow pilot. The colleague, who also works at flydubai, said the accused, a new recruit, prayed excessively throughout the day and refused to shake hands with women.
A mid-air attack on a Tel Aviv-bound flydubai flight has triggered a probe into a possible hijacking or terrorist incident. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu claimed the co-pilot who stabbed Indian captain Smit Machchhar had undergone radical indoctrination, while investigators probe a possible Iran link.
Four women reporters spent hours across Delhi documenting staring, following, propositioning and persistent approaches. Their observations show how ordinary public spaces can force women to assess every man, vehicle and turn.
Opposition parties are rightly demanding a return to paper ballots. India is a hard country, and only a soft country has faith in software.
As questions grow over dissent within the EC over SIR, sources in the poll body have said its three members have taken every decision unanimously since February 19, 2025, even as a media report highlighted 14 objections recorded by Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi over various aspects of the exercise.
After Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said Indian captain Smit Machchhar of flydubai Flight FZ1073 might have been hit with an axe, questions arose over how such a weapon could have cleared Dubai airport security. But UAE aviation rules themselves require an aircraft of this size to carry a crash axe or crowbar. Here's why.
India won six confirmed medals on October 1, including three silver and three bronze, while assuring itself of another medal in men's sepaktakraw. The day's biggest moments came in team sports, with India's men's hockey and cricket teams reaching the gold-medal matches.
Captain Smit Machchhar's career began far from the cockpit. He studied textile engineering with plans to join his family business before pursuing management at Mumbai's Welingkar Institute. That academic detour took him to New Zealand, where an aviation seminar at 19 changed the course of his life and, 13 years later, he went into the cockpit of Flydubai Flight FZ1073 where he saved 174 lives.
A video captures pilot Smit Machchhar injured in the moments after a flydubai cockpit attack. His remark that he was hit repeatedly brings the episode's severity into focus.
An Indian pilot saved over 170 lives, mostly Israelis, on a Dubai-Tel Aviv flight by fighting the co-pilot who wanted to crash the plane. The incident brought back the memories of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks in which an Indian nanny, Sandra Samuel, saved the life of two-year-old Israeli boy, Moshe Holtzberg, even as his family was killed by Pakistani terrorists.
Tanvi's YouTube video came more than a month after her parents went missing while on the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra. They have remained untraceable since flash floods struck near the Nepal-Tibet border on August 26.
At Cornell University, a student newspaper became central to a rape case after a civil lawsuit named seven accused. Here is how The Cornell Daily Sun reported the allegations, challenged the university's response, and why editor-in-chief Sophia Dasser's leadership matters as campus journalism confronts questions of safety, accountability and truth.
flydubai Flight Incident Live Updates: A flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv faced a terrifying mid-air ordeal on Wednesday after the co-pilot stabbed Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar in the cockpit and attempted to crash the aircraft. The plane plunged thousands of feet before Machchhar, despite being wounded, fought back, while a passenger restrained the attacker and another helped stabilise the aircraft. The flight was diverted to Saudi Arabia, with passengers and crew later returning safely to Israel the same day. Additionally, Israeli and Indian leaders hailed Machchhar as a hero for helping avert a potential disaster. The co-pilot was subsequently arrested, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Flydubai has launched an investigation. Follow this live blog for the latest updates on the flydubai flight incident.
Following Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar's heroics aboard a flydubai jet during a mid-air attack, in which his actions helped save nearly 180 lives, the courage of Neerja Bhanot, who saved passengers during the Pan Am Flight 73 hijacking in Pakistan, has resurfaced in public memory. This is how Bhanot rose to the occasion when hundreds of lives depended on her split-second decisions.
From "remember his name" to "what a hero", Israeli flooded social media with tributes to flydubai Captain Smit Machchhar, with users sharing videos to thank the Indian pilot and hail his courage after he was seriously injured while fighting back during the cockpit attack and helping avert a potential catastrophe.
People turned up alone, dragged their friends and parents along, and some even showed up with posters. Safe to say, the Fat Dogs of Delhi election was paw-sitively one of the most unusual elections Delhi has seen.
In politics, you don't always kill rivals by direct assault; sometimes, labelling them an irrelevant branch office does the job better and Vijay shows he knows how to do it.
Israeli leaders praised the passengers who rushed into the flydubai cockpit after the co-pilot attacked Captain Smit Machchhar, helping bring the aircraft back under control. Their quick intervention averted what could have been a major disaster.
Full-body scanners are set to become a more visible part of airport security across India, the Ministry of Civil Aviation said amid concerns following the flydubai hijacking attempt.
From the lanes of North Campus to the heavily barricaded Delhi Secretariat, the streets of the capital have become a stage for a growing chorus of women demanding to be heard. As concerns over violence against women continue to mount, multiple protests have erupted across Delhi, with students and young women stepping out of classrooms and into the streets to ask a question: when will the city be safe enough for women to simply walk freely?
A Bengaluru-based man said he was asked to vacate a flat after the society president objected to him being a bachelor. The post has gone viral.
Captain Smit Machchhar, bleeding profusely after being attacked by his co-pilot, managed to unlock the cockpit door of the flydubai jet in time, which helped prevent a disaster. Why is it important? We decode it for you.
Zoho co-founder Sridhar Vembu says the company built its own cloud infrastructure instead of relying on AWS or Google Cloud. Zoho is now opening the platform to developers through Catalyst and making it free for students.
