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NEW DELHI: Air India flight bound for San Francisco returned to Delhi on Wednesday morning after remaining airborne for more than three hours due to a technical issue, the airline said.Flight AI173, operated by a Boeing 777-300 ER aircraft, was carrying around 230 passengers when it was forced to turn back to the national capital in line with standard safety procedures, according to sources.“Flight AI173 from Delhi to San Francisco on May 27 has returned to Delhi due to a technical issue in accordance with the laid down procedures,” Air India said in a statement.The airline said the aircraft landed…

Lucknow: Two passengers were killed and nine others sustained injuries after a Uttar Pradesh Roadways bus carrying passengers collided with a stationary trailer truck on the Lucknow-Gorakhpur National Highway under the Raunahi police station area in Ayodhya on Wednesday triggering panic and chaos at the accident site.According to police officials, the bus belonging to Rapti Nagar Depot (registration number UP-78-LT-1376) was travelling from Lucknow to Gorakhpur when the accident took place near Zuberganj market on the highway. Preliminary findings suggest that the speeding bus crashed into a trailer parked along the roadside.The impact of the collision was severe, leaving the…

Virat Kohli pulls off Cristiano Ronaldo’s ‘SIUUU’ after GT collapse (Image: X/Screengrab) Virat Kohli, known for his passionate on-field celebrations and animated gestures, was once again in the spotlight during RCB’s Qualifier 1 clash against Gujarat Titans after pulling off Cristiano Ronaldo’s iconic “SIUUU” celebration.A self-confessed admirer of football legend Cristiano Ronaldo, Kohli has often recreated the Portuguese star’s trademark celebration on the cricket field over the years. During Gujarat Titans’ chase of a massive 254-run target set by Royal Challengers Bengaluru, GT lost five wickets inside the powerplay, and Kohli was seen celebrating wildly with Ronaldo’s famous move as…

NEW DELHI: A 16-year-old juvenile was apprehended for allegedly shooting a boy in the head in Southeast Delhi’s Amar Colony, police said.According to police sources, the juvenile had previously been involved in another shooting incident in Kalkaji. Police are also searching for at least two of his associates. “The apprehended suspect is believed to be the shooter and is being questioned about the motive behind the attack and the source of the firearm,” sources said.The incident was reported around 7.54pm on Tuesday.According to a senior police officer, the Class XII student was eating with a female friend when a group…

AIADMK factions are moving towards reconciliation, signaling an end to internal rifts CHENNAI: Warring factions within the AIADMK on Wednesday moved towards reconciliation, with leaders from both camps signalling unity and a possible end to the internal rift. “It is over. We are all together like mother and child,” former minister K C Veeramani said after reaching senior leader C Ve Shanmugam’s residence, where MLAs from the rebel camp were asked to assemble. The AIADMK’s IT wing also sought to play down the differences, asserting there was “no division” within the AIADMK and describing it as an “iron fortress” built…

SUV carrying members of a family from Delhi crashed into a stationary tractor-trolley on the Ganga Expressway LUCKNOW: Three people, including a woman and a child, were killed while five others sustained serious injuries after an SUV carrying members of a family from Delhi crashed into a stationary tractor-trolley on the Ganga Expressway near the Salon-Pratapgarh border in Raebareli district on Tuesday night.The accident took place around 11:30 pm near Mirzahanpur village on the Ganga Expressway.According to police officials, the impact of the collision was so severe that the SUV overturned after slamming into the parked vehicle.The victims had left…

Uber’s chief operating officer Andrew Macdonald says the company’s use of AI coding assistants like Calude Code and ChatGPT has increased the internal productivity by about 25%, but he also admits there is no direct link yet to delivering more useful consumer-facing features. According to a report by Fortune, speaking on the Rapid Response podcast, Macdonald explained that while AI adoption has sped up development, it’s difficult to measure how those gains translate into new features for riders and drivers. “That link is not there yet,” he said. “Maybe implicitly there’s more that is getting shipped, but it’s very hard…

NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar has convened a meeting of party office bearers, MPs, and MLAs in Mumbai. MUMBAI: Fuel prices and energy policy returned to the political spotlight this week, with the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) [NCP (SP)] launching a twin attack on the BJP, questioning both the Centre’s fuel pricing policy and what it termed “publicity-driven austerity” amid growing global uncertainty over energy supplies.The opposition party criticised recent displays of fuel conservation by BJP leaders following appeals linked to global tensions and concerns over oil supply disruptions arising from the West Asia crisis.Addressing the media, NCP(SP) spokesperson…

Delhi chief electoral officer Ashok Kumar, IAS, holds a media briefing on Phase-III of SIR in New Delhi NEW DELHI: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters list in Delhi will begin with door-to-door visits by booth-level officers from June 30 in a transparent manner, Delhi chief electoral officer (CEO) Ashok Kumar said on Wednesday.While addressing a press conference, Kumar said that training of booth-level officers (BLOs) and printing of enumeration forms and other papers will take place from June 20 to June 29 as the in-house activity for the SIR exercise.He added that there are checks and balances at…

One accused, identified as Juma Nasir Omar (left), was apprehended from the boat. AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) and the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) jointly seized 118kg of cocaine worth nearly Rs 1,000 crore from the Arabian Sea off the Kutch coast. Officials said the contraband was being smuggled from Brazil and was meant to be delivered to foreign nationals based in Delhi.According to ATS officials, intelligence inputs were received about a suspicious fishing boat moving near the International Maritime Boundary Line off the Kutch coast. Acting on the tip-off, ATS officers coordinated with the Coast Guard and intercepted…