New Delhi, Jul 12 (PTI) Following are the top stories at 9 pm:
NATION
DEL30 LDALL-AIRINDIA-CRASH-REPORT
* Air India crash report points to fuel flow cut off, confusion among pilots
New Delhi: Seconds before Air India flight 171 crashed while ascending from Ahmedabad, the fuel control switches of both its engines were cut off, a preliminary investigation report said on Saturday, suggesting a catastrophic pilot error in the cockpit of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. *
DEL42 AIRINDIA-CRASH-POLITICS
* Boeing, GE, Air India failed us, not pilots: Priyanka Chaturvedi on Ahmedabad plane crash
New Delhi: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Priyanka Chaturvedi on Saturday accused Boeing, GE and Air India of "failing" and gave a clean chit to the pilots, after the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) released its preliminary report on the Ahmedabad plane crash that killed 260 people. *
DEL41 NCR-TENNIS PLAYER-MURDER-UNCLE
* My brother had confessed to killing his daughter: Slain tennis player Radhika Yadav's uncle
Gurugram: In a new revelation in tennis player Radhika Yadav's murder case, her uncle said on Sunday that accused Deepak Yadav had confessed to him about killing his daughter and said he should be hanged. *
MDS22 AP-FLIGHT CRASH-MINISTER
* Immature to jump to conclusions on AAIB's preliminary report on flight crash: Union Minister Naidu
Visakhapatnam: Union Aviation Minister K Ram Mohan Naidu on Saturday said that it is immature to jump to conclusions at the juncture over the recent Air India flight crash in Ahmedabad, as the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has only released the preliminary report. *
DEL37 UP-RAJNATH
* Indian armed forces have special blessings of Goddess Kali: Rajnath Singh
Lucknow: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday that the Indian armed forces have the special blessings of Goddess Kali and during Operation Sindoor, they displayed amazing valour, courage and bravery in destroying terrorist camps on Pakistani soil. *
DEL35 ONOE-CHAUDHARY
* One Nation, One Election: Next JPC meeting likely on Jul 30
New Delhi: The next meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on 'One Nation, One Election' is likely to be held on July 30, panel chairman P P Chaudhary said. *
DEL34 AVI-AIRINDIA-CRASH-REPORT-LD-ALPA
* Pilots' grouping ALPA India seeks fair, fact-based probe into AI plane crash
Mumbai: Airline Pilots' Association of India on Saturday demanded a fair and fact-based probe into the Air India plane crash as it claimed that the tone and direction of the investigation into the Air India plane crash suggests a bias towards pilot error. *
DEL32 DL-BUILDING-6THLD COLLAPSE
* 6 dead, 8 injured in building collapse in Delhi; rescue operation underway
New Delhi: Six people, including a two-year-old girl, died and eight sustained injuries when a four-storey building collapsed in the Welcome area of northeast Delhi on Saturday morning, an official said. *
DEL33 AVI-AIRINDIA-CRASH-AIRLINE
* Air India says will review preliminary plane crash report with pilots
Mumbai: Air India on Saturday said it will take on board its pilot community by holding dedicated sessions in the coming days to review the preliminary investigation report of the Ahmedabad plane crash on June 12. *
CAL18 WB-RAPE-PARTIES
* Woman raped in IIM Calcutta hostel; Cong, CPI(M) deplore lack of security in central institute
Kolkata: The opposition Congress and CPI(M) on Saturday said the alleged rape of a woman in IIM (Calcutta) campus, shows the "worsening" law and order situation in West Bengal, and "lapse in security" in a central educational institute where criminals are not scared to commit brutalities on women. *
BOM19 GJ-PLANECRASH-SURVIVOR
* Sole survivor of Air India plane crash seeks psychiatric help to overcome trauma
Diu: Many would think of him as one of the luckiest persons alive in the world. But for Vishwas Kumar Ramesh, the sole survivor of the June 12 Air India plane crash, it has been a struggle to get over the monumental tragedy. *
CAL23 OD-STUDENT-LD SELF IMMOLATION
* Woman student commits self-immolation over sexual harassment; principal suspended, teacher held
Balasore: A woman student of a college in Odisha's Balasore district, who had lodged a sexual harassment complaint against a teacher, on Saturday allegedly set herself on fire in the educational institute campus and sustained 90 per cent burn injury, police said. *
CAL22 AR-2NDLD LYNCH
* Arunachal: Migrant youth lynched for sexually assaulting girls, curfew imposed in Roing
Itanagar: Curfew was imposed in Roing town in Arunachal Pradesh's Lower Dibang Valley district as tensions flared after a migrant youth from neighbouring Assam was lynched by a mob for allegedly sexually assaulting several girls, police said. *
DEL44 RJ-DHANKAR-COACHING CULTURE
* Coaching centres stifle student's thinking, 'black hole' for talent: VP in Rajasthan's Kota
Kota (Rajasthan): Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday slammed rapidly growing coaching centres, terming them "poaching centres" and "black hole" for talent. *
FOREIGN
FGN29
USISPF-BIRLA
* Kumar Mangalam Birla joins USISPF Board of Directors
New York: US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) announced that Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla has joined its Board of Directors as a member of the board’s Executive Committee. By Yoshita Singh *
FGN10 CHINA-JAISHANKAR
* Jaishankar to visit China to attend SCO FMs meeting
Beijing: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will travel to China to participate in the foreign ministers' meeting of the SCO bloc in the Chinese city of Tianjin next week, an official announcement here said on Saturday. By K J M Varma *