Three drown, one missing after car falls into dam in Jharkhand
Ranchi, Nov 15 (PTI): Three persons, including two bodyguards of the principal district judge in Jamshedpur, drowned and one went missing after their car fell into a dam in Jharkhand's capital Ranchi, police said on Saturday.
The incident occurred at Ranchi's Hatia dam under the Nagri police station limits late on Friday, they said.
"As we were informed, there were four people in the car. We have so far recovered the bodies of the driver of the car and two police personnel. One is still missing," Hatia Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Pramod Mishra told PTI.
He said an initial investigation suggests that the driver lost control over the car and the vehicle overturned before falling into the water body.
The car was coming from Jamshedpur when the accident occurred, he said.
Dhurwa police station in-charge Bimal Kindo, who was overseeing the rescue operation on Friday night, said that two bodies were recovered from inside the car, while one was floating.
He said the bodyguards of the principal district judge were identified as Robin Kujur said Upendra Kumar Singh.
Both were posted as constables in the Jharkhand police.
The driver was also identified as Satyendra Kumar Singh (45).
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Tejas jet suffered damage to airframe while landing at frontline air base
New Delhi (PTI): A Tejas light combat aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) sustained major damage to its airframe after it overshot the runway at a frontline airbase following a suspected brake failure earlier this month, authoritative sources said on Sunday.
The pilot of the aircraft ejected safely, they said.
It is learnt that the aircraft was returning to the base after carrying out a training sortie.
There was no official word from the IAF on the accident that took place on February 7.
Following the incident, the IAF grounded the entire fleet of around 30 single-seat Tejas jets to carry out an extensive technical scrutiny, the sources said.
It was the third accident involving the Tejas jets. The first one took place in March 2024, when a Tejas jet crashed near Jaisalmer.
The second incident took place in November 2025, when a Tejas jet crashed during an aerial display at the Dubai Airshow.
The latest accident comes at a time when Tejas maker Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) has missed several deadlines to supply the Tejas Mark 1A variant of the aircraft to the IAF.
In February 2021, the defence ministry sealed a Rs 48,000 crore deal with HAL for the procurement of 83 Tejas Mk-1A jets for the IAF.
The delivery of the jets is facing delays primarily due to GE Aerospace missing several deadlines for the supply of its aero engines to power the jets.
The defence ministry in September last year sealed another deal worth Rs 62,370 crore with HAL to procure 97 Tejas MK-1A light combat aircraft for the IAF.
Tejas is a single-engine multi-role fighter aircraft capable of operating in high-threat air environments.
It has been designed to undertake air defence, maritime reconnaissance and strike roles.
