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In what is being described as one of the worst aviation disasters in recent memory, a London-bound Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad on Thursday, killing at least 260 on board and in the area impacted by the crash.

At community centre in north-west London, dozens share names of flight AI171 victims they knew, from relatives to dignitaries

NEW DELHI: By winning 156 of the 182 seats in the Gujarat assembly election on Thursday, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has created several records. However, the party also surmounted several hurdles to create these records.

NEW DELHI: Gujarat, which faced assembly election in two phases, registered a voter turnout of about 63 per cent. Since the BJP’s inception in 1980, a direct correlation is observed between the polling percentage and the number of seats the party wins in every assembly election in the state.

Gujarat’s Rajkot West is a BJP stronghold, and that is underselling it. The constituency has never had a legislator from another party. It’s where Narendra Modi won his first assembly election in 2002.

In 2017, then Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani declared the state open-defecation free. Two years later, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the same claim about the whole country.

NEW DELHI: The Congress is facing rebellion while replacing Ashok Gehlot as the Rajasthan chief minister. The change of guard in Punjab last year, coincidentally in September itself, was also not without internal rumblings. In contrast, the BJP has replaced as many as six CMs in five states in less…

BJP president’s first meeting with newly-appointed State in-charges

NEW DELHI: BJP on Friday assigned organisational responsibilities to a number of senior functionaries, including former chief ministers Vijay Rupani (Gujarat) and Biplab Kumar Deb (Tripura) besides former Union ministers Prakash Javadekar and Mahesh Sharma, making them in-charges of party affairs in different states.