air india express terminates 25 cabin crew over mass sick leaves
The Air India Express on May 09 terminated around 25 cabin crew who reported 'sick' and didn't report to work .As per sources, the management terminated cabin crew members due to their ‘unprofessional behaviour’. The mass sick leave was considered a pre-meditated and concerted abstention from work without justifiable reason .The disruption caused by the mass sick leave affected more than 95+ flights of Air India Express between May 07, 08 .Air India Express CEO, Aloke Singh also announced plans to reduce flight operations in the coming days. Watch video
09 May,2024 06:51 PM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched an all-out attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi questioning the party's sudden silence on Adani and Ambani and questioned them on having received money from the industrialists. Addressing a public meeting here today, PM Modi said that for years the Congress’ ‘Shehzada’ used to speak of ‘5 industrialists’ and then he started to speak only of “Ambani and Adani” and now they are silent on them. Congress national general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday replied to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's attack on her brother and former Congress President Rahul Gandhi where he had questioned the Congress' silence on Adani-Ambani and questioned if there was a secret deal between the Congress and the industrialists.
09 May,2024 05:35 PM IST
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath blamed the Congress for the 1947 partition and accused them of consistently dividing the nation along caste, regional, and linguistic lines in response to Sam Pitroda's controversial remarks about people's appearances in different parts of India.Expanding his remarks, he suggested that the Congress party should apologise to the country for what Sam Pitroda said. It shows the dangerous mindset of the Congress party, he added.“Congress is responsible for the partition in 1947, it is responsible for the horrors of partition. Even after the independence, it has committed the sin of dividing the country in the name of caste, region, and language. Sam Pitroda's remark is highly condemnable. Congress party should apologise to the country for the things it is making Sam Pitroda say...This shows the dangerous mindset of Congress. It is highly condemnable”, said Yogi Adityanath.
09 May,2024 03:08 PM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a roadshow in Andhra Pradesh's Vijaywada on Wednesday, along with Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu and Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan. PM Modi was seated on a specially designed vehicle along with the two leaders. He was seen waving to the people who had gathered in huge numbers. The flags of BJP along with that of TDP and Jana Sena party were being carried out in the roadshow. Notably, the Bharatiya Janata Party is in alliance with TDP and Jana Sena Party in Andhra Pradesh. Elections for the 175-member Assembly and 25 Lok Sabha seats in the state are scheduled for May 13 and the counting of votes will be held on June 4. Watch video.
09 May,2024 02:06 PM IST
Sam Pitroda has quit as the chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress amid a huge political row over his controversial racist remarks. The decision has been accepted by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge. The announcement about Mr Pitroda came in a terse post on X from the party's communications-in-charge Jairam Ramesh. For the unversed, Sam Pitroda, in a podcast while describing the diversity of India, had said that the “people in the east look like the Chinese, people in the west look like the Arabs, people in the north look like, maybe, white and people in the south look like Africans.” This remark by Sam Pitroda created a controversial storm all over social media. Big politicians have been bashing Pitroda over his racist remark. PM Modi also slammed Pitroda over his racist slur. Other BJP leaders also came forward to bash Pitroda. Several big politicians from Northeast also called out Sam Pitroda on his racist slur. Watch video.
09 May,2024 01:09 PM IST
Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan was appointed as UNICEF India's National Ambassador on May 04. After being appointed as the new National Ambassador for UNICEF India, she said that she would work towards giving them their fundamental rights. “...I'm very honoured and very humbled to take on this position. I've waited ten years and worked tirelessly and worked very hard with all my heart. And now, finally, I'm joining them as a national ambassador. But of course, with that comes a huge responsibility, which I accept with all my heart, to ensure that every child through the corners of India, however vulnerable, wherever he is, whoever she is. When I say every single child, I do not specify gender. I do not want to voice or no voice, abled or disabled, I specify every single child. I will work towards giving them their fundamental right...” said Kareena Kapoor Khan.
09 May,2024 12:23 PM IST
Amid the Lok Sabha elections, AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi on May 8, once again raised the issues of PM Cares Fund. Following this, he trained guns at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks on ‘Mangalsutra’, increasing inflation and unemployment in the country. "We are defeating BJP since 40 years...in 2014 and 2019 PM Modi came but AIMIM won here...I want to ask PM, where is the money for PM care funds, in which bank is the electoral bond money?...unemployment and inflation are increasing...this year PM Modi wants to change the constitution so that he can end the reservation. He says that we are infiltrators and our daughters give birth to so many children, this is wrong. Will a Muslim take out the 'Mangalsutra' from a Hindu woman? Prime Minister is frustrated,” said Asaduddin Owaisi
09 May,2024 11:06 AM IST
While addressing a public gathering in Telangana’s Warangal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a series of attacks on Rahul Gandhi and Sam Pitroda’s racist rant. PM Modi said "I was thinking a lot that Droupadi Murmu who has a very good reputation and is the daughter of Adiwasi family, then why is Congress trying so hard to defeat her but today I got to know the reason. I got to know that there is an uncle in America who is the philosophical guide of 'Shehzada' and just like the third umpire in cricket this 'Shehzada' takes advice from the third umpire. This philosophical uncle said that those who have black skin are from Africa. This means that you are abusing several people of the country based on their skin colour."
08 May,2024 05:12 PM IST
Diplomatic crisis deepened between India, Canada over the murder of Khalistani Terrorist Hardeep Nijjar. Canadian Police arrested and charged 3 Indians with the murder of Khalistani Terrorist Hardeep Nijjar. 3 Indian nationals accused of Hardeep Singh Nijjar's killing made their first court appearance. Members of the Sikh Community from British Columbia crowded a Surrey courtroom on May 07.The arrested men are Karanpreet Singh (28), Kamalpreet Singh (22), and Karan Brar (22).Pro-Khalistani protesters chanted slogans and held placards, outside the Surrey Provincial Court. Indian nationals are facing charges of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. The killing of the Khalistani leader has severely damaged Canada's relations with India. Meanwhile, S Jaishankar gave it back to Canada over the arrest of 3 Indians in Nijjar’s case. Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead in June last year outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, a Vancouver suburb. Canada’s NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has renewed his claim of Indian hands behind the incident.India has been vehemently denying all the allegations by calling it ‘absurd and motivated.
08 May,2024 02:51 PM IST
Russian President Vladimir Putin took oath as Russian President for 5th term. Putin’s new mandate was marked by a protest from Western countries who boycotted the Kremlin ceremony. At 71, Putin dominates the national political landscape after he won a landslide victory in March earlier this year. The US said it did not consider Putin’s re-election free and fair amid prolonged Ukraine-Russia war. Putin begins his new mandate a day after he ordered tactical nuclear weapon drills to deter the West. Moscow on May 06 said it would practice deployment of tactical nuclear weapons after citing threats from France, Britain & US. Since Ukraine conflict began in 2020, Russia has said the US and its European allies are pushing the world to the brink of nuclear confrontation. In March, Putin warned and said direct conflict with US & NATO means world is “One step away from World War Three”. Meanwhile, after taking oath Putin said talks on strategic nuclear stability with the West were also possible, but only on equal terms. Russia and US are by far world's biggest nuclear powers, holding more than 10,600 of world's 12,100 nuclear warheads.
08 May,2024 01:55 PM ISTADVERTISEMENT
