New Delhi [India], June 3 (ANI): After five senior Air India pilots lost their lives to COVID-19 last month, the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) has urged the airline to vaccinate not only the members of the flying crew but also their family members.
By: ANI
The five senior Air India pilots who have succumbed to the coronavirus are Captain Harsh Tiwari, Capt Gurpratap Singh, Capt Sandeep Rana, Capt Amitesh Prasad and Capt Prasad M Karmakar
New Delhi : After five senior Air India pilots lost their lives to COVID-19 last month, the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) has urged the airline to vaccinate not only the members of the flying crew but also their family members.
In a letter on Tuesday, the ICPA said that their immediate families were at risk of contracting the virus and requested that the provision of vaccinating employees be extended to them. We draw your attention to government policy allowing private and state entities to vaccinate not just their employees but even dependent family members. Pilots are being quarantined, testing positive, and succumbing to COVID at an alarming frequency, the letter said.
Babbar Khalsa narco terror case: NIA raids six locations in Punjab
India
Published: Friday, January 8, 2021, 9:52 [IST]
New Delhi, Jan 08: The National Investigation Agency conducted searches at 6 locations in Punjab s Tarn-Taran district in connection with a narco terror case.
The case pertains to the seizure of 61 kilograms of Heroin along with arms and ammunition on September 20 2020 at the International border at Arnia, Jammu.
The searches were conducted at the residences of six accused persons namely Jasraj Singh, Sham Lal, Bishan Dass, Ajeet Kumar, Gurbaksh Singh and Gurpartap Singh. These accused persons were arrested for hatching a criminal conspiracy to carry out anti-national and unlawful activities, and to help terrorist organisations by collecting funds and channelising the proceeds of the drugs for furthering the activities of terrorist organisations like the pro-Khalistan Babbar Khalsa International (BKI).