The Centre came down heavily during a virtual meeting called by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology with officials of airlines, and social media giants X and Meta.

Indian investigators have linked a series of bomb threats against airlines in the country to accounts operating from the UK and Germany, according to a report by the Indian Express. This revelation comes amid heightened security measures in response to more than 20 threats that targeted both domestic and international flights over the past week.

Nearly 80 domestic and international flights received bomb threats in less than 24 hours that later turned out to be hoaxes, keeping thousands of passengers and security agencies on tenterhooks