USS Gerald R. Ford is the US Navy's flagship carrier, its most advanced and lethal so far. It carries up to 90 aircraft and has nearly 6000 sailors on board. It had entered service in May this year.
Madurai-born Sundar Nagarajan also known as Kasiviswanathan Naga and Nagarajan Sundar Poongulam, now faces extradition to the US where he faces charges of helping to launder money to evade US sanctions and fund Hizbollah.
A spokesperson of the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah said that the group had no additional information on the stabbing of Salman Rushdie.