Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a British national, appears to be the only survivor of Air India flight 171, which crashed with 242 people aboard.

The deadly crash of an Air India flight carrying more than 240 people on Thursday arrives after years of attempts to turn around the country's flag carrier — which had been plagued by tragedy and financial losses under prior state ownership.

The Tata Group, which bought the airline three years ago, has been trying to improve operations at a time of great change in India’s aviation market.

India’s inflation eased further in May, marking a seventh consecutive monthly decline and validating the central bank’s unexpectedly large interest rate cut last week.

Financial institutions like HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Axis Bank make up more than a third of India’s 70 companies on the Global 2000.

Narendra Modi, the prime minister, wants the country to lead in AI and insists that any global progress in the field is incomplete without India. In February Ashwini Vaishnaw, the minister in charge of technology,