
Bala Chauhan
Senior Special Correspondent at The New Indian Express
Senior Editor (Inv), The New Indian Express. curious learner, non conformist, love mystery, intrigue, nature & literature. RPs are not endorsements
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2 weeks ago |
newindianexpress.com | Bala Chauhan
"The fumes from a burning aircraft are extremely toxic and suffocating. There are trained fire personnel to douse the flames. They use foam to kill the fire. I had reached the spot and we immediately called for fire personnel and ambulances. Since Mangaluru has a good number of hospitals and medical facilities, the eight survivors were rushed and given timely treatment. Their escape was providential," he said.
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2 weeks ago |
newindianexpress.com | Bala Chauhan
BENGALURU: A tragedy of the scale of Air India's Boeing 787-8 crash in Ahmedabad on Thursday is unfathomable and massive. Handling the aftermath of such accidents is an extremely tough job that requires trained, responsible and sensitive expertise. Fortunately, we do have the expertise in India. On the one hand is the shock and scale of the tragedy, on the other is the need to have immediate boots and hands on the ground.
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3 weeks ago |
newindianexpress.com | Bala Chauhan
By Bala Chauhan BENGALURU: The victory celebrations of Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) took a tragic turn on Wednesday with the death of 11 people in Bengaluru after a stampede outside the M Chinnaswamy Stadium where people in lakhs had converged to celebrate the RCB victory by the Karnataka State Cricket Association.
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1 month ago |
newindianexpress.com | Bala Chauhan
By Bala Chauhan India's stunning strikes at nine terror bases in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) and inside Pakistan's Punjab on May 7 in response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack had two firsts. One, precision strikes on the other side of the international border (IB) between India and Pakistan since the 1971 war; and two, use of loitering munitions or "kamikaze" drones to destroy the terror infrastructure of the enemy under Operation Sindoor.
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1 month ago |
newindianexpress.com | Bala Chauhan
All it took was a few hours after India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire for elements in the Pakistani military to go rogue. That this came after the Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif profusely thanked US President Donald Trump for facilitating the agreement was striking. At around 9 pm came the news that drones were back in action in Srinagar and Gujarat and that there was indiscriminate firing of shells across the North-western border of India.
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