July 5, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Jet wreckage located

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Jul 5, 2025 06:52 IST First published on: Jul 5, 2025 at 06:52 ISTShareA robot submersible has “almost certainly” located the wreckage of the lost Air-India Jumbo jet 1830 metres deep in the Atlantic Ocean off the Irish coast, the Cable and Wireless Telecommunications Company said. “Weak signals which could be from the crashed plane’s black box flight recorder are now being picked up some 3.2 km from the wreckage,” the statement said.Indo-Pak agreementThe three-day ministerial meeting of the Indo-Pakistan Joint Commission ended in New Delhi after the signing of an agreement on cooperation in the field of agricultural research and development. The agreement was signed by the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Buta Singh, and Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Sahabzada Yaqub Khan on behalf of their countries.Advertisement’Dismiss Bhajan Lal’Leaders of national opposition parties and Haryana opposition leaders have demanded the dismissal of the Haryana Chief Minister, Bhajan Lal. They have also demanded the appointment of an inquiry against him under the Commission Enquiries Act of 1952 on charges of corruption, favouritism and nepotism. The opposition leaders alleged that Lal, after becoming CM, had cast aside all democratic norms and decency in public life.Resignation declinedThe Congress (I) high command is in no mood to accept the resignation of Pranab Mukherjee as West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (I) chief following the party’s defeat in the Calcutta Corporation election. The AICC(I) general secretaries said that Mukherjee had done well and there was no reason why he should feel disappointed.