The missing IAF AN-32 transport plane with 29 people on board, including six crew members, till date has taught us the lesson that all the fighter planes including the series like Mig-21, Mig-29 etc. made in Russia and Ukraine should be withdrawn from the IAF at once. And no more orders should be placed with these two countries for any kind of fighter planes henceforth. Eight children were killed and several others injured as their school minibus was hit by a train at an unmanned railway crossing. This incident teaches the Railway Ministry to turn all the unguarded railway crossings into the manned ones, all across India on war footing basis.
Hansraj Bhat
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