Machchhar remains under medical care following the cockpit assault NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs (MEA) on Saturday said flydubai pilot Captain Smit Machchhar was recovering well after he was attacked by his co-pilot during a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv.The MEA said Machchhar remained under “excellent medical care” and that it was…
An Italian Jesuit priest once turned one of the Amazon’s most feared fish into an unlikely source of income for an isolated community. Giovanni Gallo organised the preservation and export of about 12,000 piranhas from Brazil’s Marajó Island, with the proceeds helping fund bridges, a community dock, a cemetery and an airstrip, according to Brazilian…
Suvendu accuses Mamata of faking 2021 injury NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday accused his predecessor Mamata Banerjee of faking her injury during the 2021 state assembly elections.Adhikari added that a fresh inquiry would be launched to probe Mamata Banerjee’s “false claims” of injury. He claimed that no evidence of fracture…
Built in the late 1920s by architect John Byers, the estate occupies just under an acre in Beverly Hills’ prestigious Post Office neighbourhood. John Barrymore, one of the celebrated actors of Hollywood’s Golden Age, was once its owner, giving the property an especially notable place in the city’s cinematic history. Some Los Angeles homes accumulate…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi NEW DELHI: Congress MP and leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Saturday launched “Satyagraha,” a digital platform aimed at consolidating information on various issue-based protests taking place across the country.The website was launched a day after the 157th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, whose philosophy of “Satyagraha”…
Hamam al-Hammami, the accused co-pilot in the flydubai incident (Image source: LinkedIn) Hamam al-Hammami, the Omani co-pilot accused of stabbing Captain Smit Machchhar and attempting to crash a flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv, had already come to the attention of authorities for his radical extremist tendencies. Despite this he was cleared to fly to…
IIT Bombay has sent Professor Doolla on leave NEW DELHI: IIT Bombay Professor Suryanarayana Doolla told the Mumbai Police Crime Branch that he had followed the institute’s prescribed guidelines and procedures while dealing with student Sahil Wakode, who later died by suicide in his hostel room.Also Read | IIT Bombay suicide: Prof Suryanarayana Doolla grilled…
The woman has been called “Jane Doe” in court documents The complainant in the alleged sexual assault case at Cornell University is “under siege” on social media, where people are attempting to identify her, according to her lawyer.“She’s under siege on social media, where people are trying to identify her,” her lawyer, Thomas Giuffra, told…
Raw emotions took over him for a while as Machchhar spoke to Modi about those dramatic moments and called him his idol. The PM responded that his courage had made Smit a global hero, with people worldwide offering prayers for his good health. Bleeding on the cockpit floor after being attacked by his co-pilot, Captain…
Representative Image (AI-generated) A logging job that was supposed to take place on neighbouring property ended with 1,299 trees cut from a Mississippi couple’s land, turning a boundary mistake into a legal dispute over more than $40,000. According to the Court of Appeals of Mississippi’s October 7, 2025 decision in Payne Logging LLC v. Gerald…
