India news: Cockroach party backs Jharkhand student leader Devendra Nath Mahto
Abhijeet Dipke said his party stood firmly behind Mahto, who was hospitalized after police used tear gas, batons and water cannons to disperse protesters marching towards the state Assembly on Monday. DW has more.
In Jharkhand, student leader Devendra Nath Mahto, a key figure in the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), received support from the CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke on Tuesday. Mahto was hospitalized following a nine-day hunger strike and a march to the state Assembly in Ranchi over alleged irregularities in government recruitment exams. During the protest, police employed tear gas, batons, and water cannons to disperse the demonstrators.
Meanwhile, the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) invited India's space agency to participate in its planned Moon Base program. The US Embassy in India shared NASA's announcement, emphasizing that the base would drive lunar scientific breakthroughs and prepare for crewed missions to Mars.
Airbus, a European aerospace company, dispatched a team of experts to India to aid in the investigation of an Air India flight that lost about 300 feet (100 meters) in altitude during a flight from Phuket to New Delhi last week. The incident injured 12 people, and the Airbus A320 stabilized and landed safely. India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau classified the incident as serious, awaiting confirmatory results of a psychoactive substance test for the flight's captain.
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