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BIZARRE: Indian airlines - What They Never Told You

Indigo: Why India is held hostage by one airline

It was October 1988. Me, my mother, and my younger sister were supposed to fly in an Indian Airlines flight, from Ranchi, in what was then Bihar, to Srinagar, in Jammu and Kashmir, with an overnight stop at Delhi, to attend my father’s younger brother’s wedding.

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TV Newsance 266: Netflix series courts controversy while anchors go hunting for wild wolves

The big story of the week was the controversy gripping a Netflix series documenting the 1999 hijack of Indian Airlines flight IC 814. The right-wing and our Godi anchors were upset that two of the hijackers had Hindu code-names. Of course, that actually happened, but their qualm was that people…

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Netflix India's head summoned by Iɫ Ministry over 'IC 814' web series

The content head of OTT platform Netflix has been summoned on September 3 by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Read further on Dynamite News :

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Modi govt summons Netflix India content head amid The Kandahar Hijack row

The union ministry of information and broadcasting has reportedly summoned Netflix India’s content head Monika Shergill amid accusations that a new Netflix series had distorted facts about the 1999 Indian Airlines hijack as part of an agenda to “whitewash” the crimes of Muslim terrorists.

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Netflix’s IC 814: The incredible true story behind plane hijacking series that’s courting controversy in India

The new series follows the longest hijack in Indian aviation history

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Aviation professionalism which India must draw from

The aviation world should learn a lot from the high professional standards in Japan’s training of air crew

The Hindu

Indian Airlines flight leaves for UK after hoax bomb threat at Amritsar airport

AMRITSAR: A state of panic ensued at Amritsar’s Sri Guru Ram Das Ji International Airport following receipt of a bomb threat on Monday. However, the investigations clarified the threat to be a hoax call.

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Explained | The troubles of India’s aviation industry

How GoFirst became bankrupt and a detailed explantion of the high operational costs that India’s aircraft industry faces

The Hindu

NIA attaches property of IC-814 hijacking accomplice Mushtaq 'Latram'

The National Investigation Agency has attached Srinagar property of Mushtaq Zargar alias Latram, who was released along with Masood Azhar in exchange of passengers of the hijacked Indian Airlines flight 814 (IC 814) at Kandahar in 1999. Read further on Dynamite News:

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'Mona' Kowli passes away

MUMBAI: 'Mona' Mohan Madhusudan Kowli, who was once the captain of the Indian Airlines All-India team and played in the Kanga League for John Bright CC, passed away on Sunday at his residence at 7 pm.

The Times of India

Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar, released during hijacking of IC-814 in 1999, designated as terrorist

Zargar is the founder and chief commander of terror group Al-Umar-Mujahideen and had been affiliated with Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front: MHA

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