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Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna Trump backs away from further Ukrainian plane crash in Iran kills conflict after Iran hits U.S. troops all 176 on board; no hint of foul play Attack was in retaliation for the American killing of its top General in Iraq Victims are mostly Iranians, Canadians; Ukraine warns against speculation Reuters Agence France-Presse BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON/DUBAI Will end U.S. Tehran U.S. President Donald Trump A Ukrainian airliner crashed said on Wednesday that Ira­ presence in shortly after take­off from nian missile strikes on bases Tehran on Wednesday killing in Iraq had not harmed any West Asia: Iran all 176 on board, mainly Ira­ U.S. troops stationed there nians and Canadians. and damage was minimal, an “America’s corrupt Search and rescue teams outcome he said showed Teh­ presence must come to an were combing through the ran wanted to prevent an es­ end in this region,” Iran’s smoking wreckage of the calation into conflict. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Boeing 737 flight from Tehran Iranian forces fired missiles Ali Khamenei said in a live to Kiev but officials said there at military bases housing U.S. broadcast on state was no hope of finding troops in Iraq early on Wed­ television. “If America has anyone alive. nesday, saying it was in reta­ committed a crime... it The vast majority of the liation for the killing in a U.S. should know that it will passengers on the Ukraine In­ drone strike of powerful Ira­ receive a decisive response. ternational Airlines (UIA) nian commander Qassem So­ They cut off the hand of flight were non­Ukrainians, leimani on January 3. our dear Soleimani. The including 82 Iranians and 63 “All of our soldiers are safe revenge for him is to cut off Canadians, officials said. and only minimal damage was America’s feet from this The crash occurred amid region,” President Hassan sustained at our military bas­ Striking back: An explosion at a military base housing U.S. high tensions in West Asia Fatal flight: Rescue personnel shifting the body of a plane crash victim from a farmland Rouhani said. Ī Page 14 * AP/PTI es,” Mr. Trump said. “Iran ap­ * and shortly after Tehran at Shahriar near Iranian capital Tehran on Wednesday. troops in Iraq after Iran fired missiles. IRAN PRESS/REUTERS DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD pears to be standing down, launched missiles at bases in which is a good thing for all Kerman on Monday after days Iraq housing U.S. troops. But UIA, the ex­Soviet coun­ personal items — including passengers were students parties concerned and a very work for a new deal, an issue earlier in the day addressed a of national mourning. there was no immediate indi­ try’s privately owned flagship luggage, clothes, a Santa from Tehran’s Sharif Univer­ good thing for the world.” that has been at the heart of gathering of Iranians chanting Iranian state television said cation of foul play and Ukrai­ carrier, said flight PS752 took Claus doll and a boxing glove sity, the most prestigious in “The fact that we have this rising tensions between “Death to America”, said Iran had fired 15 ballistic mis­ nian President Volodymyr off from the Tehran airport at — were scattered in the the country. great military and equipment, Washington and Tehran. Iran Iran’s attacks were a “slap on siles from its territory at U.S. Zelensky warned against 6.10 a.m. and disappeared debris. Iran’s civil aviation author­ however, does not mean we has rejected new talks. the face” of the U.S. and said targets in Iraq. “speculating” on the cause of from radars just two minutes ity said the airliner’s two have to use it. We do not want U.S. troops should leave the The Pentagon said al­Asad the disaster. later. It slammed into a farm­ Students among victims black boxes had been found to use it,” the U.S. President ‘Big retreat from threats’ region. air base and another facility in land at Khalaj Abad in Shah­ The passengers included 10 but it would not hand them said in an address, flanked by There was no immediate reac­ Iranian Foreign Minister Erbil, Iraq, were struck. Ira­ U.S. imposes flying ban riar county, about 45 km Swedes, four Afghans, three over to Boeing or U.S. author­ Vice­President Mike Pence, tion from Iranian officials to Mohammad Javad Zarif had nian television had said 80 The U.S. aviation authority northwest of the airport, Ira­ Germans and three Britons, ities. The airline said the Boe­ Defense Secretary Mark Esper Mr. Trump’s comments. The said the strikes “concluded” “American terrorists” had said it had banned U.S.­regis­ nian state media said. Ukraine’s Foreign Minister ing 737 was built in 2016 and and Secretary of State Mike semi­official Fars news agency Tehran’s response to the kill­ been killed, without saying tered carriers from flying ov­ Footage released by the said. Eleven Ukrainians, in­ checked only two days before Pompeo and military officers. described the U.S. President’s ing of Soleimani, who was res­ how it obtained this er Iraq, Iran and the Gulf, and Iranian state media showed a cluding the nine crew, were the accident. It was Kiev­ He urged world powers to remarks as a “big retreat from ponsible for building up Iran’s information. airlines, including Lufthansa field on fire and the smoul­ on board. At least 25 were un­ based UIA’s first fatal crash. quit a 2015 nuclear accord threats”. network of proxy armies FROM THE BRINK OF WAR and Air France, suspended dering wreck of the plane. der the age of 18. with Iran that Washington Iranian Supreme Leader across the Middle East. He Ī EDITORIAL flights through the Iraqi and Rescue workers carried body Iran’s semi­official news WON’T GIVE BLACK BOXES TO withdrew from in 2018 and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was buried in his hometown SEE ALSO Ī PAGES 12 & 14 Iranian airspace. bags, and the passengers’ agency ISNA said 13 of the U.S. OR BOEING: IRAN Ī PAGE 14 NEARBY Bihar shelter home girls Strike by unions evokes DU students march against JNU violence partial response in Delhi NEW DELHI Police have not yet identified the masked perpetrators or made any arrests related to the attack alive: CBI to apex court The strike by industrial workers, bank employees and STAFF REPORTER ment showing no indication The Delhi police continued or make any arrests. A police Legal Correspondent names of these had myste­ students on Wednesday NEW DELHI of removing Vice­Chancellor to treat Sunday’s attack as a official told The Hindu that a NEW DELHI riously disappeared from the against the anti­labour Thousands of Delhi Universi­ M. Jagadesh Kumar from the “clash” between two student total of 11 complaints had Thirty­five girls believed to balikagarh (girls’ home). policies of the government ty students took to the streets post as demanded by stu­ groups, prompting JNUSU to been received — seven “from have been murdered in the In March 2019, the agency and the CAA evoked a partial on Wednesday in support of dents. tweet, “For the last time, the Left” and three from Muzaffarpur shelter home told the court that 35 girls response in Delhi. JNU students and teachers, A government statement what happened on Sunday ABVP — but no fresh FIRs had sexual abuse case had been with identical or similar NEWS Ī PAGE 12 found to be alive, the CBI names had indeed lived in DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD who were brutally beaten by claimed that “about 3,300 night was no ‘clash’. It was a been registered. masked attackers on Sunday, students” had registered for brutal attack, an assault, an In her complaint, JNUSU told the Supreme Court on the shelter home at one and also demanded the scrap­ the upcoming winter semes­ act of terrorism on students president Aishe Ghosh, who Wednesday. point of time or the other. On ping of the CAA­NRC­NPR re­ ter, which is less than half of and teachers assembled for a suffered grievous head inju­ Allegations about the Wednesday, Attorney­Gener­ gime. JNU’s total strength of 8,700 peace march. Such wording ries, stated that she had been ‘murders’ had first surfaced al K.K. Venugopal, for the As demands for bringing students. The date by which only goes on to obfuscate attacked by a mob of 20­30 last year in the statements of CBI, said the agency had the masked perpetrators to students can register has facts and distort the truth.” persons, who used filthy lan­ girls rescued from the shel­ tracked each and every one DU students during a justice continued, the stand­ been extended till January 12 Till Wednesday night, the Del­ guage about her. ter home run by kingpin Bra­ of the 35 girls. protest on Wednesday. off in JNU is expected to conti­ even as no exams have been hi police had not identified jesh Thakur in Bihar. The CBI * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA nue with the Central govern­ held for the semester gone by. any of the masked attackers CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 had also found that the CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 Cabinet nod for FDI in coal mining Ordinance to ease rules approved Special Correspondent March 31, 2020.