Mumbai, Nov 28: The search is still on for pilot Cdr Nishant Singh who has been missing since a MiG-29K fighter aircraft of the Indian Navy crashed into the Arabian sea, a Western Naval Command spokesperson said on Saturday.
"More surface and air assets have joined the search for missing pilot Cdr Nishant Singh," the spokesperson said.
The Russian-origin jet had taken off from aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya, and went down at around 5 PM on Thursday, officials had said.
One pilot of the aircraft had been rescued while a search operation is on for Cdr Nishant Singh, Indian Navy officials had said on Friday.
The MiG-29K is an all-weather carrier-based multirole fighter aircraft developed by Russian aerospace company Mikoyan (MiG). The Indian Navy had procured a fleet of 45 MiG-29Ks from Russia over a decade back at a cost of around USD 2 billion to operate from INS Vikramaditya.
INS Vikramaditya was part of the second phase of the Malabar exercise involving navies of India, the US, Australia and Japan.
The MIG-29K fleet on board the aircraft carrier was also involved in the mega naval drill that took place from November 17 to 20.
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New Delhi: Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy has gifted 15 lakh shares to his four-month-old grandson Ekagrah Rohan Murty valued at around Rs 240 crore, according to a regulatory filing.
Murthy has gifted 15 lakh shares, or 0.04 per cent of his equity holding, to Rohan Narayana Murty son Master Ekagrah Rohan Murty –making him the youngest billionaire shareholder of Infosys.
The value of total gifted shares come to around Rs 240 crore as per company’s closing share price of Rs 1,602.3 apiece.
Ekagrah is the third grandchild of Narayana Murthy.
His first two grandchildren are daughters of Akshata Murty and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.