A flash of light lit up the sky as the Indian Air Force’s Jaguar fighter jet crashed near Gujarat’s Jamnagar on Wednesday night. A CCTV camera footage from a house in the Suvarda village where the jet crashed captured moments before the incident.

The fighter jet crashed at around 9.30 pm in an open field after experiencing a technical malfunction, with one of the pilots on the training mission ejecting safely. The pilot who ejected suffered injures, while the second pilot died as he failed to exit the jet in time.

As soon as the jet crashed in an open field, it erupted into flames, which was later doused by firefighters.

The injured pilot, currently admitted at the Guru Gobind Singh Government Hospital, is in a stable condition and out of danger.

There was no civilian casualty on the ground and the cause of the crash was not immediately known.

A Court of Inquiry has been ordered by the IAF to investigate the cause of the accident and determine the circumstances leading to the technical failure.

As the Mamata Banerjee government suffered a setback in the Supreme Court in the teachers’ recruitment case, former Trinamool Congress MP Jawhar Sircar said he left the party because “corruption and authoritarianism were getting too bad”.

“People ask me why I resigned as MP of TMC. Would my conscience allow me to be a part of such rot? I went with TMC as it is the toughest fighter against communal, fascist BJP. I left because TMC’s corruption and authoritarianism were getting too bad,” Mr Sircar posted on X.

People ask me why I resigned as MP of TMC.

Would my conscience allow me to be a part of such rot?

I went with TMC as it is the toughest fighter against communal, fascist BJP.

I left because TMC’s corruption & authoritarianism were getting too bad. pic.twitter.com/nufFFYpnYQ

— Jawhar Sircar (@jawharsircar) April 3, 2025

A retired IAS officer, Mr Sircar has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Prasar Bharati. Mr Sircar joined the Trinamool Congress in 2021 and was named a Rajya Sabha MP. In 2024, however, he resigned from the Upper House and the party in the aftermath of a doctor’s rape-murder in Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

In an open letter to Ms Banerjee, Mr Sircar had spoken out against the alleged corruption within the ruling party. He had said that when he pointed to evidence of corruption against former Education Minister Partha Chatterjee, he was heckled by a section of Trinamool leaders.

In a big setback to the Mamata Banerjee government, the Supreme Court today upheld the Calcutta High Court order, cancelling the appointment of more than 25,000 teachers and non-teaching staff under the West Bengal School Service Commission. The Supreme Court said the entire selection process is “vitiated by manipulation and fraud” and its credibility and legitimacy “denuded”.

The bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justice PV Sanjay Kumar said that it saw no reason to interfere with the High Court order. The court said the appointments resulted from cheating and are thus fraudulent.

Analysts have questioned claims that new tariffs are reciprocal and based on those charged against the US. 

​Analysts have questioned claims that new tariffs are reciprocal and based on those charged against the US.