Man Claims IndiGo Denied Boarding Despite Arriving On Time, Airline Reacts

A passenger took to LinkedIn to call out IndiGo after allegedly missing his flight by mere seconds, despite being at the boarding gate. In his post, Amit Mishra from Gurugram said he was travelling from Delhi to Bagdogra on June 5 and had reached gate 26 minutes before the scheduled departure. However, he claimed he wasn't allowed to board because IndiGo had rescheduled the flight without properly informing passengers. Mishra also alleged that the staff instructed DGCA personnel to shut the gate right in front of him, even as other passengers were still on the airbridge.

In a detailed post, Mr Mishra recounted how a 60-second delay ended up costing him his business trip, along with a lot more money. "IndiGo Airlines - where's the accountability? I never thought missing a flight by 60 seconds - while the gate was still open - would end up canceling an entire business trip and cost me double for my next leg of travel," he wrote. 

Mr Mishra said he checked in his baggage by 6:25 am for his 7:30 flight. He reached the boarding gate at 7:04 am, 26 minutes before the scheduled departure. However, he said that the staff turned him away. 

"The gate staff refused to let me board, even as passengers were still in the airbridge and boarding just behind me. What stunned me more - after 3 minutes of my repeated requests, the female staff instructed DGCA personnel to shut the gate - right in front of me. No explanation, no consideration. Just 'You're not boarding'" he wrote. 

Further, he alleged that the flight had been rescheduled to 7:20 am, but there was no prior notification via SMS or email. Even with the revised time, he had still reached the gate 16 minutes early, he stated. 

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As a result, he missed a business meeting, had to cancel his next Bagdogra to Hyderabad flight and was also forced to book a new flight from Delhi to Hyderabad at double the cost. "All because of rude behaviour, lack of basic empathy, and no effort to help a genuine passenger who was clearly not late by any practical standard," he wrote, demanding a refund and compensation. 

"I am now requesting a full refund for the Delhi-Bagdogra flight and also seeking compensation for the financial loss caused by this negligence," he said. 

Mr Mishra's post prompted IndiGo to respond. "Sir, we tried reaching out to you on your registered contact number; however, we were unable to establish a connection. Please share an alternate number along with a convenient time via DM so that we can connect with you," the airline said. 

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"Where Do We Go?" Ahmedabad Crash Strikes Fear In People Living Near Airports

Densely populated pockets are located around airports in many cities across India and Thursday's Ahmedabad plane crash, in which at least 30 people were killed on the ground as well, has got residents worried about a tragedy like that hitting closer home.

Air India Flight 171 - a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner - took off from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport and could achieve an altitude of merely 625 feet before it began descending and crashed into the complex of the BJ Medical College in Meghani Nagar - an aerial distance of less than two km. Of the 242 people on the plane, 241 were killed and at least 30 others died on the ground. 

The airport in Mumbai, which can handle more than 40 flights every hour, is surrounded by slums as well as posh homes, and residents of both say flights taking off sometimes give them the jitters now. 

"We are within 1 km of the runway. There is a service road nearby which sees a lot of fish sellers, there are other hawkers selling food items as well. The leftovers are then thrown there, attracting birds," said a resident of an area around the Mumbai airport, implying that the chances of bird hits increase because of this.  

"The vibrations from the aircraft also cause damage. Cracks develop in the buildings... we have to spend a lot on maintenance every year," said another resident. 

Residents of slums in Vile Parle (East) said they have been living there for decades but were still willing to shift if the government gives them a safer place to stay. 

"Of course, we are scared. But we have been living here for over 70 years, where do we go?" said one. 

The story is similar in Jaipur, where people living near the airport say the incident in Ahmedabad has shaken them.

"We have been scared since Thursday. The planes take off day and night," a woman said.

Memories Persist

For people living close to the Patna airport, Ahmedabad does not just make them question 'what if', because many of them have lived through a similar disaster and are worried it may happen again.

In July 2000, an Alliance Air Plane had crashed into Gardani Bagh near the airport while landing, killing 60 people, including five on the ground.

"It happened right here," a resident of the area said. "I remember hearing a loud sound. We got scared. We are still a little scared, but what's the point? We have to live here." 

At ground zero, in Ahmedabad, the fear is palpable.

A woman who ran a roadside stall near the airport lost her son as the plane crashed. "He was on the main road when the flames got to him. My daughter-in-law has also suffered severe burn injuries," she said. 

A resident of Meghani Colony, very close to the airport, said, "When the plane crashed, I thought it was a bomb or an earthquake. If it had hit this area, so many people would have died."

"The plane was really close to our house. One of the wings clipped a tree. The number of people dead would have been much higher if it had landed in this area," said another.

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'It's Nothing Compared With What's Coming': Israel on Strikes On Iran

Israel pounded Iran for a second day on Saturday and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said its campaign would intensify dramatically, while Tehran called off nuclear talks that Washington had held out as the only way to halt the bombing.

A day after Israel wiped out the top echelon of Iran's military command with a surprise attack on its old foe, it appeared to have hit Iran's oil and gas industry for the first time, with Iranian state media reporting a blaze at a gas field.

Netanyahu said Israel's strikes had set back Iran's nuclear programme possibly by years and rejected international calls for restraint.

"We will hit every site and every target of the Ayatollahs' regime, and what they have felt so far is nothing compared with what they will be handed in the coming days," he said in a video message.

In Tehran, Iranian authorities said around 60 people, including 29 children, were killed in an attack on a housing complex, with more strikes reported across the country. Israel said it had attacked more than 150 targets.

Iran had launched its own retaliatory missile volley on Friday night, killing at least three people in Israel. Air raid sirens sent Israelis into shelters as waves of missiles streaked across the sky and interceptors rose to meet them.

US President Donald Trump has lauded Israel's strikes and warned Iran of much worse to come. He said it was not too late to halt the Israeli campaign, but only if Tehran quickly accepted a sharp downgrading of its nuclear programme at talks with Washington due to be held on Sunday.

Host Oman confirmed on Saturday that the next round of talks had been scrapped. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said holding talks was unjustifiable while Israel's "barbarous" attacks were ongoing.

In the first apparent attack to hit Iran's energy infrastructure, Iranian media reported a fire on Saturday after Israel bombed the South Pars gas field in southern Bushehr province.

Worries about potential disruption to the region's oil exports had already boosted the price of crude by about 7% on Friday, even though Israel had spared Iran's oil and gas industry on the campaign's first day.

An Iranian general, Esmail Kosari, said Tehran was reviewing whether to close the Strait of Hormuz, controlling access to the Gulf for tankers.

With Israel saying its operation could last weeks, and urging Iran's people to rise up against their Islamic clerical rulers, fears have grown of a regional conflagration dragging in outside powers.

"If (Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali) Khamenei continues to fire missiles at the Israeli home front, Tehran will burn," Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said.

Tehran warned Israel's allies that their military bases in the region would come under fire too if they helped shoot down Iranian missiles.

However, 20 months of war in Gaza and a conflict in Lebanon last year have decimated Tehran's strongest regional proxies, Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, reducing its options for retaliation.

NIGHT OF BLASTS AND FEAR IN ISRAEL AND IRAN

Iran's overnight fusillade included hundreds of ballistic missiles and drones, an Israeli official said. Three people, including a man and a woman, were killed and dozens wounded, the ambulance service said.

In Rishon LeZion, south of Tel Aviv, emergency services rescued a baby girl trapped in a house hit by a missile, police said.

In the western suburb of Ramat Gan, near Ben Gurion Airport, Linda Grinfeld described her apartment being damaged: "We were sitting in the shelter, and then we heard such a boom. It was awful."

The Israeli military said it had intercepted surface-to-surface Iranian missiles as well as drones, and that two rockets had been fired from Gaza.

In Iran, Israel's two days of strikes destroyed residential apartment buildings, killing families and neighbours as apparent collateral damage in strikes targeting scientists and senior officials in their beds.

Iran said 78 people had been killed on the first day and scores more on the second day, including 60 when a missile brought down a 14-storey apartment block in Tehran, where 29 of the dead were children.

State TV broadcast pictures of a building flattened into debris and the facade of several upper storeys lying sideways in the street, while slabs of concrete dangled from a neighbouring building.

"Smoke and dust were filling all the house and we couldn't breathe," 45-year-old Tehran resident Mohsen Salehi told Iranian news agency WANA after an overnight air strike woke his family.

Fars News agency said two projectiles had hit Mehrabad airport, located inside the capital, which is both civilian and military.

Israel sees Iran's nuclear programme as a threat to its existence, and said the bombardment was designed to avert the last steps to production of a nuclear weapon.

A military official on Saturday said Israel had caused significant damage to Iran's nuclear facilities at Natanz and Isfahan, but had not so far taken on another uranium enrichment site, Fordow, dug into a mountain.

The official said Israel had "eliminated the highest commanders of their military leadership" and had killed nine nuclear scientists who were "main sources of knowledge, main forces driving forward the (nuclear) programme".

Tehran insists the programme is entirely civilian and that it does not seek an atomic bomb. However, the UN nuclear watchdog reported it this week as violating obligations under the global non-proliferation treaty.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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Not Concerned About War, Gave Iran 60 Days, Today's 61st: Trump Backs Israel

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he is "not concerned" about a regional war breaking out after Israel targeted and destroyed Iran's military and nuclear sites, while also killing its top nuclear scientists and commanders.

In an interview to news agency Reuters, President Trump said he had initially tried to delay an Israeli strike, giving Iran ample time for diplomacy and dialogue, but added that he had given a 60-day ultimatum to Tehran, "And today was the 61st day," he said.

However, the US President said he is still hopeful for furthering nuclear talks with Iran. He said that Washington will go ahead as planned for talks scheduled in Oman for Sunday, but after Israel's major offensive, he is doubtful that Iran will participate. US special envoy Steve Witkoff is scheduled to meet an Iranian delegation on June 15.

It is still not too late for Iran, President Trump said hours after he had advised Tehran to "make a deal before it is too late". Mounting pressure on Iran, President Trump had posted on his Truth Social account earlier on Friday that "Iranian hardliners spoke bravely, but they didn't know what was about to happen. They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!"

On Friday morning, the US President said he knew in advance that Israel was going to strike Iran's nuclear facilities and ballistic missile factories. The President had convened his top national security advisers at Camp David on the night of June 8 for what he said were discussions that included Iran. He added that he also spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Iran the following day.

"We knew everything, and I tried to save Iran from humiliation and death. I tried to save them very hard because I would have loved to have seen a deal worked out. They can still work out a deal however, it's not too late," Trump said.

Extending his full support to Israel, President Trump told Reuters that the United States has "been very close to Israel. We're their number one ally by far". On being asked about Iran's counteroffensive, the US President said, "We'll see what happens."

In retaliation to Israel's first attack on Friday, Tehran launched 100 drones towards Tel Aviv, with the Israeli Military saying its air defences were intercepting them outside Israeli territory. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has warned Israel of a "bitter and painful" fate over the attacks.
 

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Cummins Collides With South Africa Star, Then Uses DRS To Get Him Dismissed

Australia skipper Pat Cummins proved yet again why he is the man made for big stages. In the ICC World Test Championship final against South Africa, Cummins bagged a 6-for on Day 2 of the title-decider, pulling the game in his team's favour. However, en route to a heroic performance, Cummins also found himself in the center of an eventful episode that saw him collide with Proteas star Kyle Verreynne after hitting him on the pads in front of the stumps. However, shortly after, the two bumped against each other and fell down.

After an inswinging delivery from Cummins hit Verreynne, the batter ran for a single while the bowler turned his face towards the umpire and began appealing for LBW. Without realising that the South African batter was also running in the same line, Cummins bumped into him as both fell down.

Pat Cummins sent back Verreynne and Jansen in a single over.pic.twitter.com/9wuqNyGMmP

— THAKUR (@JThakur29) June 12, 2025

While the on-field umpire ruled the LBW call in the batter's favour, Cummins decided to make use of DRS. With three reds on the screen, the Australia skipper was rewarded for his performance with another prized scalp.

Kyle Verreynne departs for 13

Excellent review by Pat Cummins pic.twitter.com/AqALlJABP4

— Caught & Bowled (@caught1bowled) June 12, 2025

Cummins finished with figures of 6-28 as he reached 300 career Test wickets and secured a coveted place on the Lord's honours board with a five-wicket haul.

"He does it time and time again," said fellow pacer Mitchell Starc of Cummins. "He led from the front before he was captain, and now as captain as well. The quality and skills he has in his pocket -- I'm thrilled for him to get a bagful. To go to 300 is a special effort."

South Africa lost their last five wickets for 12 runs as Cummins ripped through the batting order.

Only South Africa captain Temba Bavuma (36) and David Bedingham (45) offered meaningful resistance during a fifth-wicket stand of 64.  

As the match starts on Day 3, Australia would start on 144/8, with a lead of 218 runs over South Africa.

With AFP Inputs

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He Was My Uncle's Son: Vikrant Massey On Co-Pilot Of Plane That Crashed

After the horrific crash in Ahmedabad, actor Vikrant Massey has condoled the death of the first officer of the plane, who was the son of his uncle, and the other 240 people feared dead, saying his "heart breaks" for the families.

Air India flight AI 171 had 242 people - 230 passengers, 10 crew and two pilots - on board and, so far, there have been reports of only one survivor. The first officer was Clive Kunder, the son of Mr Massey's uncle Clifford Kunder.

In a post on Instagram, Mr Massey wrote, "My heart breaks for the families & loved ones of
the ones who lost their lives in the unimaginably tragic air crash in Ahmedabad today. It pains even more to know that my uncle, Clifford Kunder lost his son, Clive Kunder, who was the first officer operating on that fateful flight."

"May God give strength to you and your family uncle and to all deeply affected," he added.

The plane, a Boeing Dreamliner 787-8 which had 169 Indians, 53 British nationals, a Canadian and 7 Portuguese on board, crashed into the hostel of the BJ Medical College in Meghani Nagar just over 30 seconds after it took off from the Ahmedabad airport on Thursday. The plane exploded in a fireball at 1.38 pm, and at least five doctors and trainee doctors died at the hostel while many others were injured. 

Home Minister Amit Shah reached Ahmedabad and visited the site of the crash. He said the plane had 1.25 lakh litres of fuel and the temperature after it began burning was so high that there was no opportunity to save anyone. 

Expressing grief over the incident, he said, "The work of pulling out the passengers' remains is almost over. The task of collecting DNA from the bereaved families will take two or three hours and it will soon be over... We have informed the families that lost their loved ones."

Mr Shah also went to a hospital and met the lone survivor from the plane - 40-year-old Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a British-Indian who was returning to the UK after a visit.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sources said, is likely to visit Ahmedabad on Friday morning.

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NDTV Ground Report: Suitcases Strewn, Food Uneaten At Hostel After Crash

In the compound of the Ahmedabad's Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College and Civil Hospital, JCBs moved charred, mangled remains spread over metres of land, now wet and muddy after hours of firefighting operations. Near a tree that mysteriously survived fire and a rainfall of debris, suitcases were strewn about, while in the mess of the first floor, plates of food remained untouched.

The Air India Ahmedabad-London flight plummeted from a height of 625 feet within seconds of taking off from Ahmedabad's Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Airport. It brushed past one of the six buildings in the hostel compound before crashing and bursting into flames. Of the 242 people on board, only one survivor has emerged so far.

But the impact was also felt outside the aircraft too. A part of the plane that crashed into the hostel mess left five medical students, included four undergraduate students and a postgraduate resident, dead while many suffered injuries.

At the hostel building, which is just meters away from the airport compound wall, a heavy burning smell lingered while the temperature felt higher than other parts nearby. On the ground was a mix of concrete, bricks, shoes, personal belongings and mangoes fallen from a large tree. Other trees closer to the crash site were charred and without any leaves, NDTV reported from the BJMC compound.

Amid the debris of the crash, sat a piles of hundreds of travel bags that fell from the plane when it hurtled towards the ground. Authorities on the site told NDTV that 90 per cent of the salvage work was done.

Inside the mess, a part of the roof was collapsed on one of the tables. Some suitcases, clothes and personal belongings of the plane's passengers were lying around while in one part, plates lay ready for around 50-60 men at the hostel. On many tables, plates with half-eaten and even uneaten food pointed to a sudden alarm caused by the aircraft's collision into the wall, possibly leading all those inside scurrying towards safety. Mattresses, now dusty, lay stacked in one corner.

108 Ambulance workers told NDTV that among those they rescued were two doctors who had burns on their faces.

Three buildings within BJMC bore the brunt of the impact, including the mess hall. The adjoining two five-storey buildings, home to hospital staff, also suffered severe damage as the resultant inferno raged through them. The buildings were completely blackened.

Rescue teams, comprising personnel from the Gujarat Police, Fire Department, and multiple emergency agencies, were still at work late into the night. Earth movers were deployed to break through collapsed walls and concrete rubble in a desperate bid to reach survivors and recover bodies.

As many as 265 bodies had been brought to the civil hospital in the city, police said. Union home minister Amit Shah, who arrived in Ahmedabad in the evening, said the temperature inside the crashed Boeing 787 Dreamliner was so high that there was no chance to rescue anyone, though one passenger did miraculously survive.

According to Air India, of the 230 passengers, 169 were Indians, 53 British, seven Portuguese and one Canadian. The other 12 people on board were two pilots and 10 crew members.

Search was also on for the aircraft's black box -- the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder -- for clues to understand what happened in the last crucial moments of the doomed flight to London's Gatwick airport.

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