SUNVILLA SAMACHAR

ATF price cut by 4%: cooking gas price hiked by Rs 50 per cylinder

Agency News: New Delhi

Cooking gas LPG price on Wednesday was hiked by Rs 50 per cylinder -- the first increase in rates in almost eight months -- that came within days of end of polling in three northeastern states and was sharply criticised by the Opposition. , while the price of jet fuel (Automatic transmission fluidATF) was reduced by 4%. A 14.2-kg

LPG cylinder in Delhi now costs Rs 1,103, up from Rs 1,053, according to a price notification of stateowned fuel retailers. State-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) said Rs 1,103 was the rate for a 14.2-kg non-subsidised LPG cylinder. The government doesn’t pay any subsidy to most non-Ujjwala users and this

Kiara Advani looks pretty in a floral-printed lehenga.

Lover stabs girlfriend

16-times in broad daylight for refusing to marry him

On Tuesday night in Murugeshpalya, east Bengaluru, a 28-year-old young man is accused of stabbing his 25-yearold ex-girlfriend in full view of the general public outside her office. The dead were identified by the police as Leela Pavithra Nalamati, an employee of Omega Healthcare Management Services Private Limited in Murugeshpalya from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh. Dinakar Banala, 28, an employee of a different healthcare organisation in Domlur who hails from Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh, is the accused. While Dinakar lived at Domlur.

The price of non-subsidized LPG increased to Rs 1,103 per 14.2-kg cylinder, the first increase since July 2022

Jharkhand HC rejects bail plea of CM’s former aide Pankaj Mishra

Agency News: Ranchi

The Jharkhand High Court on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of Pankaj Mishra, the former political representative of Chief Minister Hemant Soren, in a money laundering case related to illegal mining. Mishra was arrested in July last year by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Justice Gautam Kumar Choudhary dismissed Mishra’s bail application after hearing arguments in the case. The ED had filed a charge sheet against Mishra and his two aides -- Bachhu Yadav and Prem Prakash -- on September 16 last year before

Tamil Nadu man, who allegedly stabbed a cleaner, shot dead by cops in Australia

Ex-Chief Scientist of WHO shocking revelation about rising heart attack cases in India

Agency News: New Delhi

For the past few months, many videos have gone viral on social media in which people suddenly have heart attacks and die. India has also seen an increase in heart attack cases in recent days, although heart attack cases have also increased globally, but videos going viral on social media in India have increased people’s concern. Along with the elderly, people under the age of 40 are also experiencing heart attacks. Former Chief Scientist of World Health Organization Soumya Swaminathan has said that the reason for the increasing number of heart attack cases in India may be Corona infection. Soumya Swaminathan said that the risk of heart attack, diabetes

Uproar in Assembly over PSI recruitment scam, Congress-AAP MLAs suspended for a day

Sunvilla News: Gandhinagar and stroke has increased due to covid infection. According to Soumya Swaminathan, more cases of cardiac arrest are being seen among people after the corona epidemic. There is also a higher risk of heart attack in people who get the Covid vaccine. People who have recovered after being infected with Kovid have very low immunity and meanwhile the risk of diabetes or heart attack.

Haryana Govt Justifies Parole for Sacha Sauda Chief, Says Not

‘Hardcore Prisoner’

Agency News: Chandigarh

By paying a bribe of 40 lakh rupees, a young man is directly training as a PSI in the Karai Police Academy without any written or physical examination. As soon as the allegation was made, the government conducted an investigation. A case has been registered in the Dabhoda police station after it was found that a young man has been taking training in Karai Academy since January. Today, Congress MLAs raised an uproar in the House on this issue. After that, Congress MLAs staged a walkout. On the other hand, Congress and Aam Aadmi

Party MLAs have been suspended for a day. Congress MLAs have demanded a debate in the House on the PSI recruitment scam. Then the BJP MLA talked about taking action as per the rules. At that time, the opposition MLAs protested in the House with placards and slogans. The Congress MLAs demanded the resignation of the Home Minister. Aadmi Party leader Yuvraj Singh Jadeja slammed the government and the police recruitment process and alleged that a young man was directly trained as a PSI at the Karai Police Academy without any written or physical examination after paying a bribe of Rs 40 lakh.

36 dead in Greece’s deadliest rail disaster

Agency News: Athens a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Ranchi. “PMLA investigation revealed that Pankaj Mishra, who enjoys political clout, being the representative of the Chief Minister, MLA from Barhait, Sahibganj, Jharkhand controls the illegal mining businesses as well as inland ferry services in Sahibganj and its adjoining areas.

Agency News: Melbourne

A 32-year-old Indian national was shot dead by Australian police on Tuesday after he allegedly stabbed a cleaner at a train station in Sydney and threatened law enforcement officers, media reports said. Mohamed Rahmathullah Syed Ahmed, who hails from Tamil Nadu, was identified by the Consulate General of India in Sydney as the man who was fatally shot by police. Ahmed allegedly attacked a 28-year-old cleaner at the Auburn train station in Sydney’s west on Tuesday before arriving at Auburn police station five minutes later, Sydney Morning Herald newspaper quoted police officials as saying. Two police officers were leaving the police station, when they were confronted by Ahmed, who tried to attack them, the report said. A police officer fired three shots, two of which hit Ahmed in the chest. A probationary constable also used her Taser on him, it said.

The Haryana government has justified the parole granted to Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, saying he does not fall under the definition of a “hardcore prisoner” and cannot be termed a serial killer. The dera chief, who is serving a 20-year jail term for raping two disciples, was granted 40-day parole on January

20. He has also been convicted in two murder cases. The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) recently challenged the parole order in Punjab and Haryana High Court. In its reply through the superintendent of the Rohtak’s Sunaria Jail, where the Sirsabased sect chief is serving out his sentence, the state government said no illegality was committed by granting parole.

Congress workers protest against Adani Group in Mumbai; detained

Agency News: Mumbai

Mumbai Police detained local Congress leader Bhai Jagtap and a number of other party workers on Wednesday while they were protesting outside the National Stock Exchange (NSE) building against the Adani group and its Chairman Gautam Adani, an official said.Hundreds of Congress party workers, including women, gathered outside the NSE building in Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) and started shouting slogans against the Adani group. Later, 40 to 50 party workers and leaders including Mumbai Regional Congress Committee chief Jagtap, were detained and taken to the BKC, Kherwadi and Nirmal Nagar police stations, the official said.The action were taken under the Bombay Police Act and the protesters were later let off, the official said, adding that no one was arrested.Jagtap said they were protesting against the move to include some Adani group stocks in dedicated indices by the NSE.

A passenger train and a cargo train collided head-on in Greece on Tuesday night, killing at least 36 people and injuring 85 as the country’s deadliest rail crash in decades threw entire carriages off the tracks. Sixty-six of those injured were hospitalised, six of whom are in intensive care, a fire official said. The crash occurred as the passenger train emerged from a tunnel. Derailed carriages, badly damaged with broken windows and thick plumes of smoke, could be seen on the site, where rescuers were looking for more survivors. One passenger carriage stood on its side at almost ninety degrees from the rest of the wrecked train, with other derailed carriages tilting precariously. Stergios Minenis, a 28-year-old passenger who jumped to safety from the wreckage, said the crash was “nightmarish” with a loud bang followed by fire. “We were turning over in the wagon until we fell on our sides... there was panic,” he said. “The fire was immediate, as we were turning over we were being burned, fire was right and left.”

Rajnath speaks to Nitish over ‘misbehaviour’ with family of soldier killed in Galwan

Agency News: Patna

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday told the Bihar assembly that he has received a call from Defence Minister Rajnath Singh regarding the alleged misbehaviour with family members of a soldier who died in the Galwan clash. Kumar made the statement in course of the government’s reply to the debate on the governor’s address to the joint session of both Houses of the state legislature. Kumar said he told the defence minister that the matter was being investigated and appropriate action will be taken. BJP MLAs staged a walkout earlier in the day in protest against the arrest of Rajkapoor Singh, whose son Jai Kishore Singh, a jawan of the Bihar Regiment, had died fighting the Chinese troops in the Galwan clash.Singh, a resident of Chakfatah village in Jandaha police station area of Vaishali district, was arrested on Saturday when a complaint was lodged by his neighbour Harinath Ram who had objected to “illegal” construction of a memorial of the deceased soldier.

Slight Relief From Rising Temperature

As Delhi-NCR Receive Rainfall

Agency News: New Delhi

Parts of the national capital and NCR on Wednesday woke up to light rainfall and thunderstorms with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicting more showers during the day. The rainfall in Delhi, Noida and Ghaziabad came amid an unusual rise in temperatures in some places of the country. Earlier in the day, IMD had predicted light to moderate intensity rain in areas of Delhi and the National Capital Region for a few hours.“Light to moderate intensity rain and gusty winds with speed of 30-50 Km/h would occur over and adjoining areas of most places of Delhi, NCR Panipat, Gohana, Gannaur, Sonipat, Rohtak (Haryana) Muzaffarnagar, Bijnaur, Khatauli, Sakoti Tanda, Hastinapur, Chandpur, Baraut, Daurala, Bagpat, Meerut, Khekra, Modinagar, Kithor, Garhmukteshwar, Pilakhua, Hapur, Gulaoti, Siyana, Sikandrabad, Bulandshahar (U.P.) during next 2 hours,” the IMD said.

SUNVILLA SAMACHAR Editorial

‘Sharma ji ka beta’ syndrome and drone parenting must end. Boards causing more student suicides

Excise Policy: BJP Holds Protests in Various Parts of Delhi, Demands Kejriwal’s Resignation

Agency News: New Delhi

Sangma Meets Himanta in Guwahati Ahead of Counting of Votes in Meghalaya

‘There’s No Clarity in AAP’: Ex-Bengaluru Top Cop Bhaskar Rao Quits Party, Joins BJP Ahead of K’taka Polls

Agency News: Bengaluru

The Central Board of Secondary Education released its date sheet for this year’s Class X and XII board exams on 29 December 2022. Simultaneously, Reddit saw an upswing in the number of posts by students on the subreddit handle r/CBSE. ‘Will these types of questions come?’ ‘Do people fail in class XI or is it just a hoax?’ ‘Can an experienced person share tips?’ ‘Which stream will be okay?’ ‘Class XII: Super useful trick to solve Integration by parts’ ‘Taking a drop from XII’ — read some posts. A meme captioned ‘studying is not that difficult’ graces the front page of the post. It follows a screenshot of Christian Bale from the 2002 movie American Psycho, the word ‘chemistry’ slapped across the photo. Of the five rules of posting on the subreddit, the last plainly states – No suicide jokes, even if they are sarcastic.But reality hits hard. Data published by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) shows that more than 14,000 students in India have committed suicide since 2016 after failing an exam. Of these, 55 per cent were under 18 years of age. The current education system, particularly board examinations, has normalised stress and anxiety among students. There is a need for systemic reforms to move toward a more inclusive and less stress-inducing education system. The ‘Sharma ji ka beta’ syndrome bites us all. What one child does, another does better. Some even say we have ushered into the era of drone parenting. The coaching culture promises to turn children into toppers. The fear of failure, not fulfilling parental and societal expectations, getting an unwanted stream, or being unable to build a career of status and a life of plenty strip away any joy of learning.

The Delhi BJP on Wednesday held protests at various parts in the city demanding the resignation of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over the now-scrapped excise policy of the AAP government. The saffron party had on Tuesday termed the resignation of Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain from the Delhi Cabinet amid corruption allegations a “victory of truth and that of the party workers” while claiming that the chief minister will have to resign too.Hours before the news of resignation by the two ministers hit the headlines, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had said it would raise awareness on the “conspiracy” that was

- Kapilkumar M. Hirpara Editor

People panic after seeing a tiger roaming in the open

Agency News: Ramanujganj

Villagers spotted the tiger roaming in the Kailashpur forest near Vadrafnagar in BalrampurRamanujganj district of Chhattisgarh. As soon as it was reported, an atmosphere of fear has arisen in the entire area. The entire area shook with the tiger’s roar. Some of the villagers arrived to see the tiger closely but were somehow stopped by persuasion.

A team of forest department and police has asked the villagers to be alert. People passing through Ambikapur-Banaras road are also being evacuated safely. Pedestrians are being explained. After the news of arrival of tiger in Biharpur area of Surajpur district, now villagers have seen tiger roaming in Wadrafnagar area of Balrampur district. A tiger has also hunted a wild boar in the Kailashpur forest between Moran and Kharhara Nala in Wadrafnagar. Villagers who went to the forest in the morning saw the tiger. After which this information spread throughout the area. According to the villagers, a week ago this tiger had hunted a bull in village Pendari Iknara Para. After the terror of elephants, leopards and bears in Balrampur, Surajpur district, the sighting of tigers has created an atmosphere of fear among the people of the entire area.

Tamil Nadu CM Stalin Turns 70, DMK Celebrates

Agency News: Chennai

DMK President and Chief Minister M K Stalin turned 70 on Wednesday and his party and supporters are celebrating his birthday across Tamil Nadu with fervour. Stalin cut a cake and laid wreaths at the samadhis of former Chief Ministers M Karunanidhi and CN Annadurai on the Marina beachfront and visited the reformist leader Periyar E V Ramasamy’s memorial here and offered floral tributes. ‘Dravida Nayagan’ which means ‘Dravidian hero’ and Dravida Perarasar (great Dravidian emperor) and ‘Dravidian model Chief Minister’ are among the choice terms used by DMK and Stalin’s admirers to hail him on his birthday.

A mega public rally is scheduled to be held here this evening by the ruling party and senior political leaders including Congress president Mallikarjuna Kharge are set to take part. Jammu Kashmir National Conference president Farooq Abdullah, Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, Bihar Deputy CM and Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav would participate.

16-year-old boy dies by suicide inside classroom

Ramvir Singh Bidhuri also slammed the Aam Aadmi Party and alleged that “Kejriwal is the ‘sutradhaar’ of the whole scam in the excise policy”.

hatched to “toy” with the future of youths in Delhi by allowing “proliferation” of liquor vends. On Wednesday, BJP members held protests near the ITO roundabout, and demanded that the Delhi chief minister should resign.Delhi BJP’s working president Virendra Sachdeva asked if according to Kejriwal.

Hundred Rupee Note & King’s Vote: Pradyot Deb Barma Would Rather ‘Ekla Cholo’ Than Form Alliance in Tripura

Agency News: Agartala

The stage is set for Tripura to get its new government for the next five years with the assembly election results coming out on Thursday. The wait will finally be over and the country will know who won the political tussle after months of campaigning. Ahead of the much-awaited poll results, Tipra Motha Party President and King of Tripura Pradyot Manikya Debbarma exclusively spoke to. As he reached to cast his vote on February 16 at Abhiram Mukumu

S.B School’s polling booth in Mandai Bazaar, hundreds of people gathered who had been waiting for their King, to give them his blessings. An old lady took out a hundred rupee note and handed it over to Debbarma as a

“lucky charm”. Meanwhile, some touched his feet and others clicked selfies with him. Reacting to the abundant support from the public, Debbarma said, “All throughout my poll campaign, there was immense pressure on me for the coalition from several parties. However, this hundred rupee note is worth thousand times more than the money which was offered to me from the kitty of industrialists.”

Polls Near, Gehlot Govt Begins Work on Sabarmati, Sei Dams to Quench Western Rajasthan’s Thirst

Agency News: Rajasthan

In an election year, the Ashok Gehlot government has finally begun work on a key Rs 2,500 crore project that will involve building two new dams on inter-state rivers Sabarmati and Sei, very near to the border with Gujarat, to quench the thirst of western Rajasthan.These dams have been a major demand of the area and are an important factor in the Rajasthan elections scheduled later this year, with 10 towns and 738 villages to get drinking water from them. On Tuesday, the Gehlot government invited bids for both projects to build the dams within the next four years. The chief minister had announced both projects in last year’s budget.Sabarmati is an inter-state river with nearly 20 per cent catchment area in Rajasthan

Agency News: Shillong

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma met Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma in Guwahati ahead of the counting of votes for the assembly elections, sources said on Wednesday. Sarma, who heads the BJP-led North East Development Alliance (NEDA), met Sangma at a hotel in Guwahati on Tuesday night, they said. “Sangma was in Guwahati last night and Sarma, his friend, came and visited him at the hotel. They had a one-to-one meeting,” a source told. The meeting comes amid exit polls predicting a hung assembly in Meghalaya with Sangma’s NPP emerging as the single largest party in the assembly elections, the polling for which was held on Monday while the votes will be counted on Thursday. The BJP and NPP ran the government in Meghalaya for the last five years as a part of the NPP-led Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) but the two parties fought the elections on their own. On Tuesday evening, Sarma claimed that there will be no hung assembly in either Tripura, Nagaland or Meghalaya, and the BJP and its partners will form governments with an absolute majority in all three states.

Punjab not an integral part of India: Khalistan supporter Amritpal poisoned again

Agency News: Chandigarh

Khalistan supporter and Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh continues to make controversial statements against India. Now he has given such a statement that Punjab is not an integral part of India. It did not stop there. He said that the picture of Punjab is not complete without Lahore and Nankana Sahib. In an interview, Amritpal said that an Indian passport is a document and it does not make him an Indian. On the other hand, Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Wading has written to the DGP on Wednesday demanding an inquiry into the attack at Ajnala police station. He said, ‘A case was registered against Amritpal’s associate Tufan Singh and later the police let him and the rest in Gujarat. Sei is its tributary. “In order to harness the full potential of Sabarmati River as well as its tributaries Sei and Wakal, it is desirable to have diversion sites on these said rivers as close as possible to the interstate boundary,” says. The Gehlot government says the idea is the “diversion of surplus water of Sabarmati Basin” to Jawai Dam in Udaipur. This will ensure filling of Jawai Dam across Jawai River to augment water supply demand in Pali and Sirohi districts of Rajasthan. “The government strategies behind such activities are to develop and manage water resources on a long-term basis which will in turn help in increasing availability and reliability of water supplies besides stabilising sustainable agricultural production,” the document says. go. The question here is whether Tufan Singh was innocent? In the letter, Raja Wading has also expressed his apprehension of spoiling the atmosphere in Punjab.

Raja Wading said that action should be taken against Amritpal’s supporters.On Amritpal Singh’s statement that he does not consider himself Indian, former diplomat KC Singh has said that radical Sikh preacher and self-styled separatist Amritpal Singh should surrender his passport because, Amritpal said, he does not consider himself an Indian citizen.

Umesh Pal murder: UP authorities bulldoze house of close aid of Atiq Ahmed

Agency News: Prayagraj

In a crackdown on associates of gangster Atiq Ahmed named in the sensational Umesh Pal murder case, the Prayagraj Development Authority on Wednesday demolished the house of a close aide of Ahmed. Prayagraj Development Authority secretary Ajit Singh said the house belonging to Zafar Ahmed has been bulldozed. He said Atiq’s wife Shaista Parveen used to stay in the same house earlier. Pal and one of his security personnel were shot dead in Jaitipur under the Dhoomanganj police station last week. Pal was the main witness in the BSP MLA Raju Pal murder case. Arbaaz, an accused in the Umesh Pal murder case, was killed

In a big jolt to the Aam Aadmi Party in Karnataka ahead of the Assembly polls, its prominent face and former Bengaluru police commissioner Bhaskar Rao on Wednesday joined the ruling BJP in the state, just 11 months after he had entered AAP. Rao joined the AAP 11 months ago in Delhi in the presence of the party supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. After joining the BJP in the presence of BJP state chief Nalin Kumar Kateel today, the retired IPS officer said. Rao claimed that there is no scope for his growth in the party and they are not even serious about contesting upcoming elections. “I told them that there should be different wings in the party- SC-ST wing, student wing, OBC wing, minority wing, women wing and others but no one paid heed to it. They just don’t want to grow. They are not even serious about contesting upcoming elections,” said Rao. The former cop likened the AAP to a Multinational Corporation which is run only by a small group of people who are “paid” leaders. AAP is run as a Multi-national Corporation only by a small group of people who are paid leaders.

FCRA revokes license of Mani Shankar Iyer’s daughter’s NGO in major central government action

Agency News: New Delhi

The central government has revoked the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) license of public policy think tank Center for Policy Research (CPR). In September 2022, a team from the Income Tax Department raided the Delhi-based office of the think tank Center for Policy Research. Since then, an investigation was going on against the license of CPR. CPR is counted among the country’s leading think tanks. The working president of CPR is Yamini Iyer. Yamini is the daughter of Congress leader and former External Affairs Minister Mani Shankar Iyer. At the time of the IT raid, sources claimed that the Center for Policy Research, a public policy think tank, had collected crores of funds for political parties. Tax evasion of crores of rupees was also caught under the guise of donation. According to the report, the officials say that the license of CPR was recently revoked due to non-compliance of FCRA norms and the society applied for renewal.

Skeleton of six-year-old found in UP village

Agency News: Kanpur

A partial skeleton of a six-yearold girl belonging to the Scheduled Caste was found Tuesday from a secluded field of her village in the Sajati police station area of Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, police said. Prima facie, it looks like the girl might have been sexually assaulted before being murdered, said an official on the condition of anonymity. Police have detained three suspects, including a man named Chandrabhan, his wife Sudha and brother Sultan, for interrogation, said Additional DCP (South) Ankita Sharma. She said the girl went missing on Saturday after she left her house in an encounter with the police on Monday. Dhoomanganj police station SHO Rajesh Maurya was also injured in the encounter. On the basis of a complaint lodged by Pal’s wife Jaya Pal, a case was registered at Dhoomanganj police station (in Prayagraj) against gangster-turned politiciam Atiq Ahmed, his brother Ashraf, wife Shaista Parveen, two sons, aides Guddu Muslim and Gulam and nine others. Atiq is currently lodged in a Gujarat prison. Agency News: Nashik

Air India ‘Peeing’ Case: DGCA Rejects Appeal to Revoke Suspension of Pilot

Agency News: New Delhi

Agency News: Hyderabad

A Class XI student was found hanging inside a classroom in Telangana’s Narsingi on Tuesday. The 16-year-old teenager was a first-year intermediate student at the Sri Chaitanya Junior College in Narsingi. The deceased student was reportedly preparing for his competitive exams and went missing after a study session that concluded at 10 pm. His peers began looking for him in all rooms when they came across the body.

The deceased student was reportedly preparing for his competitive exams and went missing after a study session that concluded at 10 pm the other students took a lift from a stranger to take the boy to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead. His peers claim that the boy was under the pressure to perform better academically which led him to take his own life. Meanwhile, his parents reportedly allege that the junior college authorities were torturing him. The parents also demonstrated outside the college asking for justice.

Agency News: New Delhi

In 2023, Moody’s Investors Service anticipates that the cumulative tightening of monetary policy by various central banks will cause global growth to continue to slow. In its global macro outlook titled “Global economic risks persist despite recent positive surprises,” Moody’s stated that the tightening of monetary policy will have a negative impact on economic activity and employment in the majority of major economies. “We forecast G20 global economic growth will downshift to 2.0 per cent in 2023 from 2.7 per cent in 2022, and then to improve to 2.4 per cent in 2024,” it said in the outlook report. Inflation, the report

“We forecast G20 global economic growth will downshift to 2.0 per cent in 2023 from 2.7 per cent in 2022 said, will continue to moderate, but a sustained decline to central bank targets is not guaranteed. For instance, inflation in the US moderated to 6.4 per cent in January from 6.5 per cent in December, and 7.1 per cent the previous month but still is way above the 2 per cent target. The policy rate of the US central bank is currently in its target range of 4.50–4.75 percent, which is the highest level in 15 years. Of note, it was almost zero in the early months of 2022. An instrument of monetary policy that typically works to reduce demand in the economy and lower inflation is raising interest rates.

Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has rejected an appeal to set aside the suspension of an Air India (AI) pilot for allegedly failing to perform his duties as per rules in connection with the alleged peeing case. DGCA had suspended the pilot for three months who operated the New York-Delhi flight on November 26 in which a passenger allegedly urinated on a senior citizen, a decision that was challenged by the pilot and unions. The India Cabin Crew Association (AICCA) had written a letter on January 23 demanding that the grounded Air India crew in connection with the ‘peeing’ case be put back on flights, calling the action against pilot in command an “unusually harsh punishment”. The cabin crew body also termed the findings of an internal committee “flawed”.

The cabin crew association had said that there is no 9B seat in the business class compartment of the aircraft in question, contrary to

DGCA had suspended the pilot for three months who operated the New York-Delhi flight on November 26 in which a passenger allegedly urinated on a senior citizen internal committee’s finding that reportedly said accused Shankar Mishra stood at 9B and urinated on the complainant seated on 9A. saying that she was going to her uncle’s place which was located in the same village. After making a frantic search, the victim’s family approached police the same night and lodged an FIR against four people, including Chandrabhan, his wife Sudha, brother Sultan and father Ram Prakash, for kidnapping the minor, Sharma said. Forensic experts were also called to gather evidence, she added. Additional DCP (South) said the skeleton was found at a distance of around one-and-a-half kilometres from the victim’s house. “We have decided to explore the rape angle during post-mortem examination apart from ascertaining the exact cause of death.

Crew body’s letter came a week after DGCA imposed a penalty of Rs 30 lakh on Air India as well as suspended for three months the license of the pilot-in-command of the New York-Delhi flight in the person, Shankar Mishra, allegedly urinated on a female co-passenger.

The action against the airline, the cabin crew and pilot in command of the said flight came as the incident gained massive attention over a month after it actually took place.

6-year-old girl attacked by stray dog in Nashik’s Malegaon

A 6-year-old girl was attacked by a stray dog, while she was on her way to her Madrasa from Lalle Chowk in Nashik’s Malegaon.The girl named Fatima was seriously injured in the attack and has been admitted to a government hospital for treatment.As per the date mentioned in the CCTV footage, the incident took place on February 28, at 8.31 am in Nashik’s Malegaon.In the video footage the stray dog is seen charging towards the 6-year-old before mauling her. On seeing the girl being attacked, people from around the locality rushed to the girl’s rescue, and managed to chase the dog away.A month-old baby was killed by a stray dog in Rajasthan’s Sirohi district on Tuesday while he was sleeping next to his mother in a government hospital, according to authorities. According to them, the body was discovered outside the hospital unit.

UK minister flags BBC offices I-T ‘survey’, told ‘must comply with laws’

Agency News: New Delhi

The Income Tax department’s action came amid a row over the BBC’s controversial documentary on prime minister Narendra Modi and the 2002 Gujarat riots. British foreign minister James Cleverly on Wednesday raised the Income Tax department’s ‘survey’ of the BBC’s New Delhi and Mumbai offices during a bilateral meeting with external affairs minister S Jaishankar in the national capital. Cleverly was firmly told that all business entities operating in the country must abide by relevant laws and regulations, Speaking to Reuters after , he said the conversation would remain private. “The conversations I had with him are best to keep with him. I did raise it…” The British broadcaster’s offices were searched for three days last month, after which the I-T department claimed its income was ‘not commensurate with scale of operations in India’. Officials also indicated the BBC had not paid some taxes. The UK government came out in defence of the BBC and its editorial freedom in that country’s Parliament.

ICC Rankings: Ravichandran

Ashwin replaces James Anderson as No.1 ranked Test bowler

Agency News : New Delhi

Veteran Indian off-spinner

Ravichandran Ashwin on Wednesday jumped to the top of the latest ICC Men’s Test Bowling Rankings, replacing England pacer James Anderson. Ashwin gained two places after taking six wickets in India’s emphatic victory over Australia in the second Test in New Delhi. Anderson dropped to second place after England’s stunning loss to New Zealand in the Wellington Test. The 36-year-old Ashwin first claimed the top honour among Test bowlers in 2015, and has returned to the top spot on several occasions since then. Ashwin bagged big wickets in India’s win in Dehli, removing Marnus Labuschagne and Steve Smith in the same over of the first innings before returning to pick up Alex Carey for a duck.

The off-spinner was at it again in the second innings, picking up three of the top five while his spin-bowling accomplice Ravindra Jadeja rattled through the rest of the Australia batters from the other end. Ashwin has an opportunity to extend his latest stay in the No.1 spot in India’s remaining two Tests on home soil.