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Faith takes flight: IAF carries Buddha relics to Mongolia for Historic exposition

In a significant gesture of cultural diplomacy and civilisational outreach, India on Saturday transported the sacred relics of Lord Buddha’s chief disciples, Arahant Sariputta and Arahant Mahamoggallana, to Mongolia aboard an Indian Air Force IL-76 'Gajraj' aircraft for a special public exposition scheduled to begin on Buddha Purnima.

Echoes from Jorhat

The miraculous survival of a lone passenger in the recent Ahmedabad air disaster has revived India’s distant but significant memory of another rare aviation escape ~ the 1977 Jorhat air crash.