Gujarat ex-CM Vijay Rupani, who was known to be ‘affable’ and kept a ‘low-profile,’ was laid to rest with full state honours.

Medical students who survived when an Air India plane crashed into their hostel in Ahmedabad say their first reaction was to help treat the injured.

Rupani was among the 242 people aboard the doomed Flight AI171 that took off from the Ahmedabad airport on June 12 and was en route to London's Gatwick airport. The BJP leader was on his way to meet his daughter in the British capital.

Investigators have now recovered the cockpit voice recorder from last week’s devastating Air India crash and will analyse the pilots’ final words to help determine what caused the disaster that killed more than 270 people.

An Air India flight was forced to turn around and return to Hong Kong after an unspecified technical issue was discovered with the aircraft. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner—the same craft involved in last week’s devastating crash in Ahmedabad which killed over 270 people—was an hour into a flight to New Delhi when the pilot suspected a problem and turned around to avoid a repeat of the tragedy.

Air India Tuesday cancelled as many as six international flights, all using the 787-8 Dreamliner, amid increased scrutiny of Boeing's flagship aircraft following the horrific crash in Ahmedabad last week that killed 241 people on board.

Viswashkumar Ramesh, 40, the sole survivor of Air India Flight 171, is among the ranks of those spared by fate.

Tragedy struck earlier this week when Flight AI171, bound for London’s Gatwick Airport, crashed less than a minute after takeoff from Ahmedabad, in India’s western state of Gujarat There was only one survivor from the 242 onboard,