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  Mortal remains of CDS General Bipin Rawat, wife Madhulika Rawat consigned to flames

  News | December 10, 2021 18:50 IST

  A huge crowd of people lined up on both sides of the dedicated road route to bid final goodbye to the top Army General. Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat was cremated with full military honours in Friday, two days after the tragic helicopter crash that killed 12 others, including his wife Madhulika Rawat.
  
  

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  'It's ok to be mediocre': Group Captain Varun Singh wrote to his school

  India | December 10, 2021 10:41 IST

  Group Captain Varun Singh is the Shaurya Chakra awardee. He had won the gallantry award for showing courage by handling his Tejas fighter jet after it faced a major technical issue during his sortie in October 2020.  

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  'I saw him, he asked for water...': Eyewitness says he saw CDS Rawat amid burning remains of chopper

  India | December 09, 2021 15:06 IST

  The flight data recorder of the IAF Mi-17V5 helicopter that crashed in a wooded, hilly area near Coonoor has been recovered.

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  Who is Group Captain Varun Singh? The lone survivor of IAF chopper crash in TN

  India | December 09, 2021 15:21 IST

  Group Captain Varun Singh is the Shaurya Chakra awardee. He had won the gallantry award for showing courage by handling his Tejas fighter jet after it faced a major technical issue during his sortie in October 2020.

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  IAF helicopter crash: Parliament pays tribute to General Rawat, others; tri-service inquiry ordered

  India | December 09, 2021 12:54 IST

  Thirteen of the 14 people including CDS General Bipin Rawat on board the helicopter died in the crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday. 

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  Aaj Ki Baat: How did helicopter crash that killed Gen Bipin Rawat, 12 others occur?

  Aaj Ki Baat | December 09, 2021 6:23 IST

  Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat, his wife and 11 others were killed in a helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu's Coonoor on Wednesday, the Indian Air Force said. The helicopter copter carrying Gen Rawat and his entourage crashed in apparently foggy conditions, killing the 13 people on board.

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  CDS Bipin Rawat, wife, 11 others killed in military helicopter crash near Coonoor in TN

  Hakikat Kya Hai | December 08, 2021 22:56 IST

  Late CDS General Bipin Rawat and his wife Madhulika Rawat will be cremated in Delhi Cantonment on December 10 (Friday). Their mortal remains are expected to arrive in the national capital in a military plane by Thursday evening.

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  'Outstanding soldier, a true patriot': PM Modi expresses grief over CDS General Bipin Rawat's death

  India | December 08, 2021 21:53 IST

  PM Modi expressed condolences on Bipin Rawat's demise and wrote about Rawat's exponential contribution to the Indian Army as India's first CDS.

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  Prominent personalities who lost their lives to air crashes | Read Here

  India | December 08, 2021 19:55 IST

  General Rawat's condition was earlier said to be critical, but the Indian Air Force later informed that he had succumbed to his injuries. The incident brings to mind several prominent personalities who have perished in air crashes in the past.

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  RIP CDS General Bipin Rawat: The man who was born to serve the Indian Army

  India | December 08, 2021 19:10 IST

  According to reports, CDS Rawat was headed to Defence Services Staff College located in Wellington in Udhagamandalam (Ooty). His wife Madhulika Rawat was also on the chopper that crashed.

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  IAF helicopter with CDS Bipin Rawat on board crashes in Tamil Nadu

  News | December 08, 2021 15:18 IST

  An Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter carrying Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat crashed at Coonoor in Nilgiris district in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday. Besides Rawat, a total of 14 people including his staff and some family members were present in the Mi-series chopper that crashed between Coimbatore and Sulur in Tamil Nadu. The chopper was on its way from the Sulur IAF base to the Defence Services College (DSC) at Wellington when it crashed.

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  J-K: Body of co-pilot of crashed Army helicopter recovered after two months from dam

  India | October 17, 2021 21:09 IST

  The mortal remains of Captain Jayant Joshi were fished out from the dam around 2 pm in one of the longest search operations in recent history and were later taken to Pathankot military station, a police official said.  

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  Jammu and Kashmir: Two Army pilots dead in helicopter crash

  News | September 22, 2021 7:40 IST

  Two pilots were killed when an Army helicopter crash-landed in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district on Tuesday. The incident took place during a training sortie in a densely forested area of Patnitop area.

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  Mi-8 Helicopter with tourists crashes in east Russia; 8 missing

  World | August 12, 2021 6:53 IST

  The helicopter went down in the Kronotsky nature reserve, and the regional administration said workers were searching for survivors in Kuril Lake, which was formed in a volcano caldera and crater.

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  An Indian Army helicopter crashes near Ranjit Sagar Dam in Pathankot

  News | August 03, 2021 12:34 IST

  Ahelicopter of the Indian Army crashed near Ranjit Sagar Dam lake in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district. An NDRF team has been deployed to carry out search and rescue operations.

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  Army helicopter crashes near Ranjit Sagar Dam in Punjab's Pathankot

  India | August 03, 2021 14:00 IST

  A helicopter of the Indian Army helicopter crashed near Ranjit Sagar Dam in Pathankot on Tuesday. There were no immediate reports of any casualty.

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  4 killed in helicopter crash in remote California region

  World | August 02, 2021 6:50 IST

  The Colusa County Sheriff's department confirmed four deaths due to a helicopter crash in California region.

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  Wreckage of helicopter crash that killed 5 found on glacier

  World | April 03, 2021 9:00 IST

  On March 27, the helicopter carrying guides and guests on a heli-skiing excursion north of Anchorage slammed into a mountain and then rolled downhill hundreds of feet, killing the pilot and four of the five passengers, officials said.

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  Richest Czech man among 5 killed in Alaska helicopter crash

  World | March 29, 2021 15:56 IST

  A contracted helicopter carrying guides and guests from a lodge on a heli-skiing trip in Alaska’s backcountry crashed, killing the pilot and four others, including the Czech Republic’s richest man.

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  4 dead as military chopper crashes in Pakistan

  World | December 27, 2020 12:57 IST

  The helicopter crashed on Saturday due to technical reasons when it was evacuating the body of a soldier killed earlier to a military hospital in the region, the military's media wing Inter-Services Public Relations said in the statement.