Mar212017
“Oral health is integral to overall health of a person and will contribute to the all-round development of the nation.” This was stated by Shri Faggan Singh Kulaste, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare. He was speaking at a function to mark the ‘World Oral Health Day’,
Mar212017
Passengers aboard an Ethiopian Airlines jetliner on Saturday helped subdue a man attempting to break into the cockpit as the aircraft flew to Beijing from Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
Aviation Industry Corp of China said on Monday that one of its employees, Cao Hongguo, who was a passenger on board Flight ET604, was the first to restrain the suspect, according to a news release and a video interview of Cao sent to China Daily by the State-owned aviation giant.
More than 200 passengers on the flight have returned safely to Beijing, though they were delayed for several hours as the Boeing 777 had to make a stop at the Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore, Pakistan. The man was transferred to police at the airport.
Ethiopian Airlines did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday.
Cao, 37, is a senior project manager at AVIC-INTL Project Engineering Co, a subsidiary of AVIC, who oversees a water supply project in Karimenu, Kenya. He was returning to his home in Henan province to take care of his pregnant wife.
Cao said that about five hours into the flight, one of the crew members rushed into the economy class cabin and called for help. Cao followed the stewardess to the first class cabin and saw a strongly built man fiercely hitting the cockpit door, according to the news release from AVIC.
Cao tried to restrain the man, who struggled against him. Two other passengers and four stewardesses then jumped in to help.
The struggle lasted about 20 minutes with the alleged attacker ending up being tied up using headphone wires, Cao said in the video interview.
The video shows Cao with slight facial injuries.
“I don’t think it’s a big deal that should be taken as the action of a ‘hero’. I didn’t think about it at the time. I just took action when I heard someone calling for help,” he said.
Kenneth Pellegrino, captain of the ET604, attached a handwritten letter to the news release from AVIC certifying Cao’s actions, saying “he was instrumental” in helping handle the incident.
Mar212017
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi today approved the following four Goods and Services Tax (GST) related bills:
Mar212017
The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has extended his greetings and felicitations to the Government and people of the Islamic Republic of Iran on the eve of Nouroz (March 21, 2017).
Mar212017
The last large coal-fired power plant in Beijing has suspended its operations on March 18, meaning that the capital has become China’s first city to have all of its power plants fueled by clean energy.
“This is a historic moment, because we now bid farewell to all coal-fired power generation plants in Beijing,” said Cai Qi, the city’s mayor, as he visited the power plant owned by Huaneng Group.
“Replacing coal with clean energy not only deals with air pollution but is also a requirement of the company’s transformation,” said Cai, adding that the new power plant, which is under construction and will start operating soon, will use natural gas.
The shutdown of the plant will cut coal consumption by 1.76 million tons a year, and reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by 91 tons, oxynitride emissions by 285 tons and dust by 110 tons.
According to Beijing’s Clean Air Action Plan (2013-2017), the total coal consumption should be 13 million tons less by the end of this year, compared with 2012.
The plan also says that the city will build four gas thermal power centers and shut down the four large coal-fueled thermal power plants during that period. Three of the four gas thermal power centers have already been built and are in operation.