New Delhi: A large number of indigo’s technical staff posted in Hyderabad and Delhi have been on medical leave for the past two days due to low salaries.

Earlier, on July 2 also, 55 per cent of the cabin staff of IndiGo’s domestic flights had gone on medical leave due to which several flights were delayed.

According to sources Air India has launched a recruitment drive in which IndiGo staff has taken leave to join it.

IndiGo had significantly reduced the salaries of its staff during the corona period.

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Rajkot: Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Gujarat today said that he had not done anything in the last eight years that would make the heads of the countrymen bow down in shame.

In the last eight years, his government has tried to build the India that Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel dreamt of. The government has launched several schemes from time to time to raise the standard of living of the poor.

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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing BJP workers on Friday said that in the last few days the country has witnessed that efforts are being made to create a division on the basis of languages.

The BJP sees a reflection of Indian culture in every regional language and considers them worthy of worship, he said.

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New Delhi: India and France on Wednesday expressed grave concern over the human situation and human rights violations in Afghanistan and called for an inclusive and representative government in the country.

Issuing a joint press release after talks between the two countries during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit, the two countries “reiterated their strong support for a peace, secure and stable Afghanistan.”

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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra will visit to Jammu & Kashmir on April 24, his first tour in the over two-and-a-half years after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Centre scrapped State’s special constitutional status under Articles 370 and 35(A) in August 2019.

Modi will participate in the celebration of National Panchayati Raj Day and address all the Gram Sabhas across the country.

He will visit Palli Panchayat in Samba district.

During the visit, Prime Minister will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of multiple development initiatives worth around Rs 20,000 crore.

He will also launch the Amrit Sarovar initiative.

Since the introduction of constitutional reforms with regards to J&K in August 2019, the government has been focussed on bringing about wide ranging reforms to substantially improve governance and enhance ease of living for the people of the region at an unprecedented pace, a government statement said.

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New Delhi:Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh, along with Defence Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar and a high-level delegation, held a meeting with Secretary of Defence of the United States of America Mr Lloyd Austin, accompanied by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other senior officials in Pentagon.

The two Defence Ministers reviewed the entire gamut of bilateral defence cooperation and the regional security situation. Both Ministers acknowledged the salience of India-US defence partnership for peace, stability and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific and broader Indian Ocean Region.

They discussed ways to deepen Major Defence Partnership (MDP) and to work together to advance quality and scope in bilateral defence cooperation. They reviewed Military-to-Military engagements, information sharing, enhanced logistics cooperation, and ability of the Armed Forces to cooperate closely under compatible communication arrangements. In this context, closer cooperation of Special Operation Forces came up prominently.

The two Ministers discussed ways for closer collaboration between Defence Industries. The Raksha Mantri underlined the need of co-development, co-production between India and US companies and invited US companies to India for manufacturing and maintenance of defence equipment.

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New Delhi: Following meat shopkeepers were coerced to shut down their shops in Delhi by civic officials due to Navratri, there is a outrage over the decision in the national capital.

Mayors of south and east districts, belonged to BJP party, have issued directions and asked shopkeepers to shut their shops for nine days as people did not eat non-vegetarian food during the festival till April 11 amid some locals complained that they do not like seeing meat being cut in open.

However, many people had objected to this decision of the local bodies and forcing shopkeepers to shut down their shops. People took to social media to express outrage and demanded rollback of the decision.

The Delhi is governed by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party which has not issued any official orders asking meat shops to shut but mayors belong to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

MP and Trinamool Congress party leader Mahua Moitra strongly condemned the decision and said that Indian constitution allows her to eat when she likes.

“I live in South Delhi. The Constitution allows me to eat meat when I like and the shopkeeper the freedom to run his trade,”she said.

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New Delhi: Foreign Secretary of United Kingdom visited India as part of diplomatic push on Ukraine on Thursday.

In a meeting with India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, the Foreign Secretary said that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine underlines the importance of democracies working closer together to deter aggressors, reduce vulnerability to coercion and strengthen global security.

External Affairs Minister, Dr S. Jaishankar, held bilateral consultations with the visiting Minister and conducted the annual strategic review of the Roadmap 2030 agreed between the Prime Ministers during the India-UK Virtual Summit 2021. The two Ministers expressed satisfaction on the progress achieved so far and agreed to further intensify efforts to deliver results in priority areas of trade and investments, defence and security, migration and mobility, education, S&T, climate cooperation and green energy.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said, “Deeper ties between Britain and India will boost security in the Indo-Pacific and globally, and create jobs and opportunities in both countries.”

Interestingly, Foreign Secretary also visited the India on same day as Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov visited India in competing efforts to strengthen ties.

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Chandigarh: Amid rising fuel prices in the country, former Punjab minister and senior Akali leader Dr Daljit Singh Cheema urged Union government to reduce the toll tax charges for consumers to provide them some relief.

He said that instead of providing relief to citizens, BJP-led union government is also going to hike the toll tax charges across the country.

Oli marketing companies have raised the prices of petrol and diesel for the ninth time in the last 10 days and it has crossed over Rs 100 across the country.

Moreover, National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has also announced to increase the toll tax from Rs 10 to Rs 65.

“Keeping in view the soaring oil prices, the state as well as union govts should have lowered toll tax to give some relief to the public but instead of lowering, they have rubbed the salt on their wounds by further increasing the toll tax. Very insensitive decision,” Cheema said.

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New Delhi: The High Level Committee (HLC) under the Chairmanship of the Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, has approved additional Central assistance under the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) to five States, which were affected by floods/landslides/hailstorm during 2021.

The HLC approved additional central assistance of Rs. 1,887.23 crore to five States from NDRF:

Rs. 1,038.96 crore to Bihar; Rs 21.37 crore to Himachal Pradesh; Rs. 292.51 crore to Rajasthan; Rs. 59.35 crore to Sikkim; and Rs. 475.04 crore to West Bengal.

This additional assistance is over and above the funds released by the Centre to the States in the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF), already placed at the disposal of the States. During financial year 2021-22, the Central Government has released Rs. 17,747.20 crore to 28 States in their SDRF and Rs. 6,197.98 crore to nine States from the NDRF.

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