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The Supreme Court said that public premises such as hospitals, schools and railway stations must be fenced to prevent the entry of stray dogs. The court said that there had been an “alarming rise” in dog bite incidents in the country.

The court said that the local authorities will be responsible for removing stray dogs from such areas and placing them in shelters after vaccinating and sterilising them. Read on.

Also read: What the outrage over stray dogs says about the moral compass of middle-class Indians

The Supreme Court verbally observed that no blame could be placed on the pilot who was among the 275 persons who died in the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad on June 12. The court said that no official report had held the cockpit crew responsible and said it was willing to record this formally.

The bench was hearing a petition filed by the father of Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, the pilot-in-command, and the Federation of Indian Pilots, who sought a court-monitored judicial inquiry into the crash. The petitioners argued that the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau’s preliminary findings were “biased and incomplete”.

The court reiterated that the tragedy was “extremely unfortunate” but verbally said that “nobody, and especially the pilot, can be blamed for the tragedy”. It added that the preliminary report did not contain any “insinuation” against the pilot and stressed that the purpose of such investigations was preventive, not punitive. Read on.

Hundreds of flights were delayed at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport after a technical glitch in the air traffic control system. The exact number of affected domestic and international flights was unclear, but reports said that the number was between 200 and 300.

The airport operator said that the automatic message switching system, which supports the air traffic control’s flight planning process, had developed a fault. The Airports Authority of India said that air traffic controllers were processing flight plans manually, leading to delays.

Separately, aircraft flying over Delhi have faced disruptions over the past week because of a series of “severe” Global Positioning System spoofing incidents. GPS spoofing involves deliberate transmission of false GPS signals that mislead navigation systems.

Pilots and air traffic controllers reported receiving false navigation data, including incorrect aircraft positions and misleading terrain warnings, within a 60-nautical-mile radius of the national capital. The disruptions, which are rare in Delhi, led some aircraft to require manual guidance from air traffic controllers. Read on.

Two persons were killed and three were injured on Thursday near Mumbai’s Sandhurst Road railway station after they were hit by a suburban train while walking on the tracks. The incident took place in the evening after local train services were halted for about an hour amid a flash strike by Central Railway employees. The protest disrupted train operations in some sections of the suburban rail network, leading some passengers to deboard.

No trains had left Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus for nearly an hour when the five persons had stepped onto the tracks, according to officials. However, this was when the strike was called off and a fast train bound for Ambernath hit the group.

The strike was called by the workers to demand the withdrawal of a case registered against two railway engineers for alleged negligence that allegedly caused a train accident near Mumbra in June. Read on.

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