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Akasa Air goes to court against pilots who resigned without serving notice period

The fledgling Akasa Air has approached the Delhi High Court seeking a direction to the DGCA to take action against pilots who left the airline without serving the mandatory notice period. The airline, which operated its first commercial flight between Mumbai and Ahmedabad on August 7, 2022, has hit turbulence following the resignation of several pilots. It told the court it will have to cancel a large number of flights in September due to the resignations. The airline told Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora the company was in a “state of crisis” because of these resignations and had to cancel multiple flights every day this month. The court has asked the parties to file their written synopsis in the matter and listed it for further hearing on September 22. The court also sought to know from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), represented by advocate Anjana Gosain, as to what action it takes in case flights have to be cancelled due to pilots’ resignation. The airline ...

Sonia Gandhi to lead Congress charge during Women Reservation Bill debate today, says Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury

Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Wednesday said that Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi will lead the party’s debate on the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha today. Talking to news agency ANI, when asked if the Congress will be part of the debate on the Women’s Reservation Bill, Chowdhury said, “Yes, Sonia Gandhi will take part in it. Sonia Gandhi will start (discussion) from our party, it has been decided as of yet.” #WATCH | Delhi: On being asked whether the Congress will be part of the debate on the Women’s Reservation Bill, Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury says, “Yes, Sonia Gandhi will take part in it. Sonia Gandhi will start (discussion) from our party, it has been… pic.twitter.com/kFoete0SmB — ANI (@ANI) September 20, 2023 On Tuesday, the NDA government introduced the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, reserving 33 per cent of seats for women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies. The Manmohan Singh-led UPA governme...

Amazon Devices Unit Morale Suffers Amid Staff Cuts, Shaky Development Pipeline

Some workers within Amazon’s once-storied hardware division – responsible for popular devices like the Kindle reader and Echo voice-assistant – say morale within the division has suffered amid staff cutbacks and a pipeline of devices in development that they fear are unlikely to prove hits. from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/PdlZXcO

Women’s Reservation Bill: Why 33% quotas for women won’t be a reality until 2029

Twenty seven years after it was first introduced in Parliament, 10 years after it was passed by the Rajya Sabha and nine years into the Narendra Modi government, the Centre led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) introduced the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday (19 September). Shortly after MPs moved into the new Parliament building from the old one – now called Samvidhan Sadan – did Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal stand up and introduce the bill, named as Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam that proposes 33 per cent reservations for women in the Lok Sabha and state Assemblies. The move came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged MPs to forget all past bitterness and start a new chapter. Speaking in the new Lok Sabha, he said: “Discussion on Women’s Reservation Bill happened for a long time. During Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s regime Women’s Reservation Bill was introduced several times but there was not enough majority to pass the Bill, and because of this this dream remain...