#AirIndia #pilots unhappy over salary revision. The airline has offered a guaranteed flying allowance equivalent of 40 hours, which used to be 70 hours pre pandemic and was brought down to 20 hours. Multiple pilots said this in a nut shell: "The DGCA allows a minimum flying of 1,000 hours, which if you calculate leaves and training gives you approximately 72 to 73 hours per month. This has also long been a healthy number of flying hours after which a pilot can take ...(cont)

Under the shadow of Taj Mahal, an entire village is on the brink of starvation. Parle G biscuits with water, chapatis with red chilli paste, dal worth Rs 2 or Rs 5 with PDS rice for a family of 7 and sometimes a cup of milk for tea for the whole family. thehindu.com/news/national/… Lockdown has deprived most in this village of shoemakers of their source of income. Those with ration cards survive only on chapatis and rice, and those without are worse off. Many go hungry for several days. Illnesses abound, fatigue writ large on every face

Here is what I learnt from a mere 7-hour long visit to Meerut and meeting the very first family: deaths have happened due to bullet injuries. injured were taken to hospitals, which had instructions not to attend to bullet hit patients. 1/n Mohsin died after a hospital turned him away. Asif 2as taken to as many as 4 hospitals, all refused to attend on him citing "orders to not operate bullet injuries".Families wr forced 2 bury bodies early morn the following day aftr post mortem proved cause of death was gunfire 2/n