India urged dialogue and diplomacy to be utilised to work towards de-escalation between Israel and Iran as the two arch-rivals exchanged fire for two days.

With DNA profiling of nine victims of Thursday’s Air India crash complete, the hospital authorities handed over the first body to a family in Ahmedabad Saturday.

Visuals from inside one of the rooms of the hostel building damaged by the crash showed bare door and window frames bent out of shape by intense flames after the plane crashed.