The National Institute of Nutrition recommended restricting salt intake, using oils and fat in moderation, doing proper exercise, minimising sugar and ultra-processed foods
Air India Express has sacked at least 25 cabin crew, a day after nearly 300 employees of the airline called in sick and switched off their phones, leading to large-scale flight disruptions. The number of job terminations is likely to increase and the management is likely to hold a townhall meeting with cabin crew members today. A total of 76 flights have been impacted today; this number includes cancellations and flights that may be operated by other group airlines.
The low-cost airline is a subsidiary of Air India that is now owned by the Tata group. Its employees have been protesting against the new employment terms, sources have said. The crew, the sources said, has alleged a lack of equality in the treatment of staff. They have claimed that some staff members have been offered lower job roles despite clearing interviews for senior positions, the sources said. The crew has also flagged some modifications in their compensation package. These developments are taking place even as the airline is in the middle of a merger with AIX Connect (formerly AirAsia India).
The Air India crisis is fresh trouble for the Tata group, barely a month after its full-service carrier Vistara witnessed disruptions due to protests by pilots over changes in their pay packages.
Two brothers from Haryana have been arrested in Australia for stabbing to death a 22-year-old MTech student from India. Abhijeet and Robin Gartan were arrested in New South Wales’s Goulburn on Tuesday, two days after the fatal stabbing of Navjeet Sandhu in the Melbourne suburb of Ormond, officials said.
“Brothers Abhijeet Abhijeet and Robin Gartan were arrested in Goulburn with the assistance of NSW Police,” the Victoria Police said in an official statement.
The victim and the accused were residents of Haryana’s Karnal.
According to the victim’s uncle, Sandhu was “fatally stabbed in the chest” with a knife by another student when he was trying to mediate a confrontation in a rent-related dispute between a group of Indian students. Navjeet’s 30-year-old friend also sustained injuries in the incident.
“Navjeet’s friend (another Indian student) had asked him to accompany him to his house to pick up his belongings as he had a car. While his friend went inside, Navjeet heard some shouting and saw there was a fight. When Navjeet tried to intervene asking them not to fight, he was fatally stabbed in the chest with a knife,” Sandhu’s uncle Yashvir was quoted as saying by the news agency PTI.
Navjeet was a brilliant student and was to join his family in July for vacations, his uncle said.
He said that Navjeet had moved to Australia on a study visa one-and-a-half years ago and his father, a farmer, had sold one-and-half acres of their land to fund his education.
Earlier, Victoria Police released details and images of the two brothers they were searching for in the stabbing incident in Ormond on Sunday.
Abhijeet is 26 years old and was described as being 170cm tall with a solid build and black hair. Gartan, 27, was also described as being 170cm tall with a solid build and black hair.