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Five Air India pilots, two staffers test positive for coronavirus

As per reports, five Air India pilots, an engineer and a technician with no COVID-19 symptoms have tested positive for coronavirus.
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As per reports, five Air India pilots, an engineer and a technician with no COVID-19 symptoms have tested positive for coronavirus. The affected Air India personnel have been asked to home quarantine themselves.

The positive tested pilots had operated one of the cargo flights ?Boeing 787 Dreamliners to Guangzhou from Delhi on April 18 in order to pick up medical supplies. The airline also operated medical cargo flights to Shanghai and Hong Kong. Last time any of these flights were operated was on April 20.

As per reports, under the Vande Bharat mission, pilots now scheduled to rescue the stranded Indians from other countries, have become anxious of their layovers in places like New York, San Francisco, Washington, Chicago, London and Singapore, where the virus has been widely spread.

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According to a NDTV report, the rescue-operation started from May 7 and Air India is expected to operate 64 flights in the first week to bring back around 15,000 stranded Indians. More than 1,90,000 Indians have registered for the flights back home.

The crew operating the repatriation flights is equipped with full PPE kit, which includes the hazmat suits, gloves, mask and goggles. Under the government guidelines for these repatriation flights, an airline crew has to undergo a swab test for coronavirus before and after they operate the flight.

Post flight, the crew has to wait for the test results, which take around 24-48 hours. During this duration, the crew stays at a hotel. If the crew members test negative, the airline car drop them to their residence, and take another test, after the five days of arrival. After testing negative again, with no possible symptoms of the virus, the crew is permitted for further flying duties.

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Nitin Gadkari graces screening of ‘Me Vasantrao’ at Sudama Theatre in Nagpur

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Union Minister Nitin Gadkari graced the special screening of Marathi movie ‘Me Vasantrao’ – a movie based on the life of Hindustani classical singer and violinist Vasantrao Deshpande.

The screening was held at Sudama Theatre in Nagpur on Sunday evening in the presence family members, friends and the cast of the movie.

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Mayor Dayashankari Tiwari kicks off polio drive in Nagpur

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Nagpur Mayor Dayashankar Tiwari, on Sunday, launched Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s (NMC) door-to-door polio campaign drive. He, along with Deputy Mayor Manisha Dhawade visited Rognidan Centre in Mahal, Nagpur and inaugurated the campaign by giving polio drops to a toddler.
As per NMC officials, ten Zonal Medical Officers and Ten Health inspectors would visit every house in their respective zones, in order to vaccinate children between the ages of zero-five to immune them against polio.
NMC had recognised Sunday as the official day for polio vaccination. Under Polio Ravivar, they plan to vaccinate more than three lakh kids in Nagpur. They also urged Nagpurkars to vaccinate their children at pulse Polio Booths near their homes from 8 am- 5 pm, on Sunday.
NMC Standing Committee Chief, Corporator Vijay Zalke spoke to Nation Next regarding this campaign and said, This year’s polio drive is going to be bigger than last year. We are planning to vaccinate around 3- 3.15 lakh kids. NMC is bearing the cost of infrastructure and execution. The state government provided us with the doses.
He further stated that there were special teams to vaccinate the homeless during night. ?When it comes to the health of Nagpurkars, money is not a factor we should think about, said Zalke when asked about NMC’s current financial crunch.
As per Zalke, vaccination facility would also be available in slums,, factory areas and other outskirts of Nagpur.

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Congress legislator caught watching porn in Karnataka Assembly

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Congress leader Prakash Rathod, on Friday, was caught on camera while allegedly scrolling through few adult content clips in the State Assembly. This turned out to be a huge embarrassment for both, Congress and Rathod as regional channels aired the video, in which he was ?caught in the act.
The MLC member was present in the house during the proceedings of the legislative council. While the house was in session, Rathod was watching adult content on his smartphone.
However, he threw these charges under the bus and said, I was looking for materials for a question I wanted to ask the government in question hour.
?When I was looking for question material, I deleted too many messages as my phone storage was full. What the media has shown or seen, I don’t know. I would never do such things or see such things, he added.
This was not the first time in Karnataka that such an incident had happened. Back in 2012, three Bharatiya Janata Party ministers were caught on camera allegedly watching adult content in the State Assembly. Following the scandal, they resigned from the state government due to public embarrassment.

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