A mother who died in the Air India plane crash had been reluctant to travel and feared leaving her young son behind for the first time.

Many of the bodies were burnt beyond recognition or damaged otherwise, authorities are carrying out DNA tests to establish the identity of the victims.

Her parents had planned to surprise her by flying to London earlier than they were expected to. But, only the news of their death in the Ahmedabad plane crash reached her.

Baba Ramdev said that India must stop allowing foreign companies to interfere in such sensitive matters.

Former Gujarat Chief Minister, Vijay Rupani, was among the 242 people on board the doomed Air India 787-8 Dreamliner, which crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12. Only one survived, and 241 people died, including the former Chief Minister.

A day after the worst air crash in the country in three decades, authorities struggled to confirm the identities of charred bodies heaped up inside the mortuary

PM Modi, Union home minister Amit Shah, former civil aviation minister Praful Patel and Guajrat CM Bhupendrabhai Patel have met him in the last 24 hours

The 20-year-old flight attendant from Manipur was killed after an Air India plane carrying 242 passengers crashed after taking off from Ahmedabad Airport.

London-bound Air India plane carrying 242 passengers and crew crashed in a residential area in Ahmedabad minutes after taking off

The London-bound Air India plane crashed into residential quarters of the BJ Medical college on Thursday afternoon.

Air India plane crash: Air India's flight AI 171, a Boeing 787-8, crashed into a residential area near the airport in Ahmedabad minutes after taking off.