Wing Commander Syal, a former student of Sainik School Sujanpur Tira, was commissioned into the IAF in December 2009. He had been serving at the Sulur Air Force Station in Tamil Nadu when his squadron received the call-up to head for the air show.

A group of people protested at India Gate on Sunday against the rising air pollution in Delhi-NCR, but the police later removed them.

The defence minister further said Hindus of Sindh, especially those from the generation of veteran BJP leader LK Advani, have never accepted the region’s separation from India. Sindh, situated near the Indus River, went to Pakistan after the Partition of India in 1947.