Negotiators, led by national security adviser Ajit Doval, thought they had a deal — just Masood Azhar. ‘If we'd had whisky there, we’d have popped the bottle,’ a senior govt official recounts Paran ...

A web series about the 1999 hijacking ... plane has sparked a controversy in the country over the portrayal of some of the characters. Directed by Anubhav Sinha for Netflix, IC 814: The Kandahar ...

Captain Devi Sharan, then 37-year-old, was flying the plane when five masked men hijacked the flight and made it fly to ...

(MENAFN- Live Mint) Devi Sharan, the captain of the hijacked ... the ill-fated plane had a harrowing time for eight days as the aircraft stopped at Amritsar, Lahore, Dubai and Kandahar.

On 24 December 1999, Indian Airlines flight IC 814, en route from Kathmandu to New Delhi, was hijacked and taken to Kandahar in Taliban ... clock was ticking as the negotiations forged through ...