All seven persons on board an air ambulance were killed after the aircraft crashed near Simaria in Jharkhand’s Chatra district on Monday (February 23, 2026) evening while en route to Delhi from Ranchi, a top State government official said. The crash took place shortly after the aircraft operated by Redbird Airways Pvt Ltd took off from Ranchi airport at 7.11 p.m.. “All seven on board the air ambulance were killed in the crash. The plane was on the way to Delhi from Ranchi,” Chatra Deputy Commissioner Keerthishree G told PTI.
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to visit Israel amid escalating tensions and a U.S. military build-up across the West Asian region, members of Parliament’s Standing Committee on External Affairs on Monday (February 23, 2026) raised concerns over the timing of the trip. Mr. Modi is expected to arrive in Israel on February 25. This will be Mr. Modi’s first visit to Israel in nine years— his 2017 trip marked the first-ever visit by an Indian Prime Minister to the country—and comes after the 2023 terror attack in Israel, and Israel’s bombardment of Gaza for two years, in which more than 70,000 people were killed.
