People stand next to a condolence banner as they wait for the body of Sumeet Sabharwal, a pilot who died when an Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed during take-off from an airport, to be handed over to his family in Mumbai, India, June 17, 2025. REUTERS/Hemanshi Kamani

A loss of engine power is increasingly being seen as the most probable cause of the Air India Boeing 787-8 crash in Ahmedabad that killed more than 270 people on Thursday.Video footage and preliminary findings suggest that the aircraft failed to gain altitude,

The Tata Group, which bought the airline three years ago, has been trying to improve operations at a time of great change in India’s aviation market.

India is planning to build a 113 km-long canal to redirect the surplus flow of the three western rivers of the Indus water system from Jammu and Kashmir to Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan. A feasibility study is reportedly underway.

India's wholesale inflation in May slowed to 0.39% year-on-year from 0.85% in April, government data showed on Monday.

Three days after the crash, only 35 bodies had been handed over to relatives from an overall official death toll of 270.

A note was found inside a bathroom on the aircraft, which ended up returning to Phuket in Thailand, before the emergency was later called off