Delhi airport on Saturday declared a full emergency after the Dubai-bound FedEx aircraft suffered a bird hit soon after the take-off. The incident happened at around 10:46 am on Saturday.

The FedEx aircraft no FX5279 had to make an emergency landing at the Delhi airport after it was hit by a bird. The Dubai-bound flight landed safely and took off again at 1:44 pm, said reports. The scheduled arrival of the flight in Dubai is at 3.29 pm. 

The full emergency was announced at the airport so that the technicians could check the plane for any technical glitch before the clearance.

Directorate General of Civil Aviation in a statement said the cargo flight was involved in an air turnback due to a suspected bird hit at 1000 ft today. Delhi airport (DIAL) declared an emergency. Aircraft landed back safely. After inspection, it has been released for flight, he said.

Bird-hit accidents, according to reports, are not uncommon, but they present significant technical problems and can be quite dangerous.

Earlier, as similar bird hit incident happened in February when an IndiGo flight from Surat to Delhi had to be diverted to Ahmedabad after it suffered a bird strike during takeoff.

Union Minister Smriti Irani on Friday slammed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the widespread violence in the state during Ram Navami. Irani accused the West Bengal CM of giving clean chit to the accused who disrupted the Ram Navami celebrations in the state.

Irani in her statement said that the organisers of the Ram Navami procession asked for permission for the procession to happen. The Union Minister of Child and Woman development further said that a request was also sought for protection as a 100-meter stretch was likely to be attacked by stone pelting.

Union Minister Smriti Irani said that despite of the appeal of protection by the people taking out the Ram Navami procession, the administration failed to provide protection. Irani further said and claimed that the West Bengal Government protected those who took law into their own hands, as well as, the ones who attacked the procession by pelting stones.

She further lambasted the Chief Minister of West Bengal and slammed her for targeting the ones who took out the procession during Ram Navami instead of the real culprits. The Union Minister, in her scathing attack on the West Bengal Government, also accused WB CM of giving a clean chit to the real culprits

Irani in her statement also added and said that this is not the first time where people of the Hindu community were attacked and raked up previous accounts of people getting attacked last year during Lakshmi Puja.

BJP MP Jagannath Sarkar also wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah seeking an intervention of Central forces to stop the repression in Howrah. The BJP MP has sought NIA’s probe into the cause of the riot.

Parts of West Bengal saw violence on the occasion of Ram Navami. Following the violence, the West Bengal government gave the investigation over to Criminal Investigation Department (CID). As per the reports, the inspector General of CID, Sunil Choudhury has initiated the investigation into the case.

Patna MP/MLA court has ordered Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to appear before the court on April 12 to record his statements in the 2019 criminal defamation case filed against him by Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Kumar Modi.

Gandhi’s statements will be recorded under Section 313 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). The court has directed Rahul Gandhi’s lawyer to appear before it.

Sushil Modi levelled a criminal defamation case against Gandhi under Section 500 of the Indian Penal Code (Defamation) over his alleged remark “why all thieves share the Modi surname” made during a political campaign in Karol ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Gandhi, in his statement, referred to IPL founder Lalit Modi and fugitive Nirav Modi who fled the country after taking thousands of crores of rupees. Gandhi obtained bail in the case in the year 2019.

Several witnesses on behalf of Sushil Modi, including, the then road construction minister in Bihar Government Nitin Nabin, president of BJYM Bihar Manish Kumar, Senior Advocate Subodh Jha, Senior Advocate SD Sanjay, Advocate Ratnesh Kumar and Advocate Arjun Kumar appeared in the court and have recorded their statements.

Last week, The 52-year-old leader was convicted by the Surat court over his remarks and was subsequently disqualified from the Lok Sabha membership after a complaint was filed by BJP MLA Purnesh Modi.

Following disqualification, Rahul Gandhi was also asked to vacate his official residence which he had occupied since 2005.