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Editorial
Jul 25, 2025
This is the front page of The Indian Express published on July 25, 1985.
Editorial
Jul 24, 2025
July 24, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Rajiv-Longowal MeetSubscriber Only
This is the front page of The Indian Express published on July 24, 1985.
Editorial
Jul 23, 2025
July 23, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Kanishka explosionSubscriber Only
This is the front page of The Indian Express published on July 23, 1985.
Editorial
Jul 22, 2025
July 22, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Plane Broke ApartSubscriber Only
This is the front page of The Indian Express published on July 22, 1985.
Editorial
Jul 21, 2025
July 21, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Kanishka mysterySubscriber Only
This is the front page of The Indian Express published on July 21, 1985.
Editorial
Jul 19, 2025
The anti-reservation agitation in Gujarat is likely to be withdrawn following an agreement between the government and anti-reservation leaders.
Editorial
Jul 18, 2025
July 8, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Kanishka ‘Clues’Subscriber Only
This is the front page of The Indian Express published on July 18, 1985.
Editorial
Jul 17, 2025
July 17, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Decoding CVRSubscriber Only
This is the front page of The Indian Express published on July 17, 1985.
Editorial
Jul 16, 2025
July 16, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Black Box AnalysisSubscriber Only
The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and the engineering department of Air India are all set to extract a read-out and a print-out of the cockpit voice recorder and the digital flight data recorder of the ill-fated Air India jumbo Kanishka that perished in the Atlantic off the Irish coast on June 23.
Editorial
Jul 15, 2025
July 15, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Black box analysesSubscriber Only
In all probability, the read-out of the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) will take place at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), where similar analyses of the two air crashes in 1976 and 1978 were carried out
Editorial
Jul 14, 2025
July 14, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Black boxes in IndiaSubscriber Only
The box is in the safe custody of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation
Editorial
Jul 12, 2025
The Sri Lankan government said that a plot by Tamil separatists to assassinate President Junius Jayewardene was foiled when the police discovered 120 kg of gelignite wired to a timing device in a parked van.
Editorial
Jul 11, 2025
July 11, 1985, Forty Years Ago: One Black Box FoundSubscriber Only
This is the front page of The Indian Express published on July 11, 1985.
Editorial
Jul 10, 2025
July 10, 1985, Forty Years Ago: PM on Punjab problemSubscriber Only
This is the front page of The Indian Express published on July 10, 1985.
Editorial
Jul 9, 2025
July 9, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Emergency ThreatSubscriber Only
This is the front page of The Indian Express published on July 09, 1985.
Editorial
Jul 8, 2025
July 8, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Punjab SolutionSubscriber Only
This is the front page of The Indian Express published on July 08, 1985.
Editorial
Jul 7, 2025
July 7, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Indo-Pak troops clashSubscriber Only
This is the front page of The Indian Express published on July 07, 1985.
Editorial
Jul 5, 2025
July 5, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Jet wreckage locatedSubscriber Only
A robot submersible has “almost certainly” located the wreckage of the lost Air-India Jumbo jet 1830 metres deep in the Atlantic Ocean off the Irish coast, the Cable and Wireless Telecommunications Company said.
Editorial
Jul 4, 2025
July 4, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Blast Caused CrashSubscriber Only
This is the front page of The Indian Express published on July 04, 1985.
Editorial
Jul 3, 2025
July 3, 1985, Forty Years Ago: President GromykoSubscriber Only
This is the front page of The Indian Express published on July 03, 1985.
Editorial
Jul 2, 2025
July 2, 1985, Forty Years Ago: India-Pakistan TalksSubscriber Only
Talking to reporters, the foreign minister said Pakistan would take a constructive approach to the deliberations in order to consolidate the gains and further expand cooperation in agreed areas
Editorial
Jul 1, 2025
July 1, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Black Box MysterySubscriber Only
This is the front page of The Indian Express published on July 01, 1985.
Editorial
Jun 30, 2025
Three people were killed and 55 injured after Devshayani Ekadashi festivities turned violent
Editorial
Jun 28, 2025
Investigators said that faint, intermittent signals have been detected near where an Air India jumbo jet crashed, but it is not certain if they are being emitted by the missing flight recorders.
Editorial
Jun 27, 2025
June 27, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Air India CrashSubscriber Only
This is the front page of The Indian Express published on June 27, 1985.
