Jul 14, 2025 07:24 IST
First published on: Jul 14, 2025 at 06:50 IST
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The black boxes of the ill-fated “Kanishka” Jumbo jet are likely to be taken to the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) or the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) for analysis. The box is in the safe custody of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation. Both the BARC and TIFR had sophisticated computers to decode the messages recorded in the cockpit voice and digital flight data recorder.
Sri Lanka talks
The dialogue between the Sri Lanka government and its minority Tamils battling for greater autonomy was kept alive as the first phase of their talks in the Bhutanese capital of Thimpu ended with an agreement to resume on August 12. The Sri Lankan government is expected to bring up fresh proposals on devolution of powers to meet the autonomy demand when the talks resume.
No harsh measures
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi made it clear that there was no question of imposing emergency now and he was in favour of settlement of all issues through negotiations . The PM pointed out that at no stage either at his press conference in Delhi or in the past had he said that he would impose an emergency.
Union Carbide sued
A total of 21,477 Indians were named in a new personal injury lawsuit, filed in a Federal court against the Union Carbide Corporation concerning the 1984 leak of a toxic gas in Bhopal. Melvin Belli, the first US lawyer to file a suit after the accident in India on December 3 that killed about 2,500 people and injured 200,000 represents nearly 25,000 Indians in two separate lawsuits. The suit asks $15 billion in damages to compensate the victims and to punish the company for negligence.
