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UK PM SUNAK FINED BY POLICE FOR FAILING TO WEAR SEAT BELT
LONDON: Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was issued a fine by British police on Friday for failing to wear a seat belt in a car while he was filming a social media video, Lancashire Police said.
In Thursday’s video, produced for distribution on Sunak’s social media channels, the seatbeltless Conservative leader speaks from the back seat of a moving car about his policies for boosting growth during a trip to Lancashire in England’s north.
Failing to wear a seat belt is punishable by a fine of up to 500 pounds ($619).
A spokesman for Downing Street said that Sunak “fully accepts this was a mistake and apologises”.
NEW YORK: David Crosby, the trailblazing singer-songwriter whose time with The Byrds and later Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young expanded rock’s range, has died, his publicist said on Thursday. He was 81.
Citing a family member, his publicist confirmed the death to AFP but did not provide a cause. The singer’s wife Jan Dance had earlier told entertainment outlet Variety that Crosby passed following a long illness.
“Although he is no longer here with us, his humanity and kind soul will continue to guide and inspire us. His legacy will continue to live on through his legendary music,” read his wife’s statement. “Peace, love, and harmony to all who knew David and those he touched. We will miss him dearly.”
The two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer - known as much for his alternative guitar tunings, lush harmonies and abstract lyrics as for his pacifist activism, brutal honesty and living dangerously - remained a prolific artist throughout his life.
Over the course of six decades in the music industry, the vocalist, guitarist and composer at the forefront of countercultural rock penned a rich array of heartfelt ballads and knifeedged bangers.
Tributes quickly poured in honouring the beloved musician with a signature walrus mustache.
“I don’t know what to say other than I’m heartbroken to hear about David Crosby,” tweeted Brian Wilson, co-founder of the Beach Boys.
“David was an unbelievable talent - such a great singer and songwriter. And a wonderful person.” law, in stopping the passenger from urinating on the victim, in looking after basic needs of the victim, in the pilot-in-command not informing the airline ground staff to ask Delhi Police to detain the passenger, and of the airline in not expeditiously heeding to the complaint and filing an FIR instantly. In all, it’s a complete breakdown of the system,” the official said. DGCA issued a notice, seeking explanation from the airline and the crew.
Statements of 15 cabin crew members and four Air India pilots who operated this flight, were submitted to the DGCA as part of the reply on Thursday. These replies, seen by HT, show that all required documentation of the episode was done upon landing. The flight report, mentioning the incident was filled and signed by the pilot- in - command, the statements of two passengers seated on 8A and 9C were taken — the woman was on 9A and the alleged perpetrator on 8C — and the incident was communicated to the department heads.
The statement by one crew member to DGCA said that the cabin supervisor made calls to Mahipal Antil, the lead HR head of IFSD and Neeta Khungar, base manager, Delhi.
When the supervisor called Antil to understand the way forward, the person was told that it was not an incident of “unruly passenger” and that the Captain was correct in not upgrading the woman passenger to First Class.
On Friday, pilot unions were agitated that DGCA, apart from imposing fine on Air India, has suspended the pilot-in-command for three months stating that he failed to discharge his duties. “The punishment given by the DGCA is the same to the person who committed the alleged crime and to the pilot in command. Now it’s best to simply report every passenger to the airline and police in order to save ourselves from actions on an ‘alleged’ incident,” a senior Air India pilot said on condition of anonymity.