Annually 1.90 lakh people die due to drug addiction: Judge Mohammad Mujahidullah
Anti-trafficking day
Mangaluru, June 29: Second additional principal district and sessions court judge Mohammad Mujahidullah said that as more than 1.90 lakh people have been losing their life annually due drug addiction, the international day against drug abuse and trafficking should not limited to just one day.
Inaugurating a programme organised to mark the International day against drug abuse and trafficking, by the district administration, zilla Panchayat, district Legal Aid Authority, district Bar Association, health and family welfare department (mental health), police department, university college, district information department, and the Wenlock hospital at the university college here on Friday, the judge said that awareness should be created among people against using drugs and their impact.
As soon as the parents noticed that their children were taking wrong path, they should keep a vigil on them and advice them. They should also ensure that their children were not addicted to social media, he said.
College principal Dr Uday Kumar presided over the programme in which psychiatrist Dr Aruna Yadiyal Was the resource person. Senior judge Mallanna Gowda, hospital superintendent Dr Rajeshwari Devi, senior assistant director of information department Khader Shaw, Mangaluru sub division assistant commissioner Renuka Prasad, DHO Dr Ramakrishna Rao, mental health officer Dr Jayakumar and others were present.
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IndiGo crisis enters day 7; 127 flights cancelled from Bengaluru
Mumbai (PTI): Flight disruptions at IndiGo entered the seventh day as the crisis-hit carrier cancelled 127 flights from Bengaluru Airport on Monday, a source said.
In another development, aviation safety regulator DGCA in an order on Sunday late evening extended the time by Monday 6 pm for IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers and Chief Operating Officer and Accountable Manager Isidro Porqueras to submit reply to its show cause notice over the ongoing disruptions in the airline’s operations.
In the notices issued to Elbers and Porqueras on Saturday, the regulator said the large-scale operational failures pointed to significant lapses in planning, oversight, and resource management, and asked them to submit their replies within 24 hours.
IndiGo has cancelled 127 flights, including 65 arrivals and 62 departures from Bengaluru Airport, the source said.
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The Gurugram-based airline, partially-owned by Rahul Bhatia, has been facing heat from both the government and the passengers for cancelling hundreds of flights since December 2, citing regulatory changes in the pilots' new flight duty and regulations norms, which resulted in lakhs of passengers getting stuck at airports pan-India.
For the first three days the airline failed to acknowledge the huge number of cancellations and it was only Friday when it cancelled 1,600 flights (Friday), a record in Indian aviation history that CEO Elbers released a video apologising for the major inconvenience caused to passengers due to the disruptions.
In the message, he admitted that the airline was cancelling a large number of flights, but did not mention that it would cancel 1,600 flights on that particular day.
The new norms, applicable for all domestic carriers, have come into force in two phases - July 1 and November 1 this year.
IndiGo has already temporarily secured major relaxations in the second phase norms till February 10.
The latest FDTL norms, which entail increased weekly rest periods to 48 hours, extended night hours, and limiting the number of night landings to only two, as against six earlier, were initially opposed by domestic airlines, including IndiGo and Tata Group-owned Air India.
But they were subsequently rolled out by the DGCA following the Delhi High Court's directives, albeit with a delay of over one year, in a phased manner, and with certain variations for airlines like IndiGo and Air India.
The norms were originally to be put in place from March 2024, but airlines, including IndiGo, sought a step-by-step implementation, citing additional crew requirements.
