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Washington [US], February 8 (ANI): The White House maintained its adherence to US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance encouraging mask usage in schools Monday (local time) as some states take steps toward lifting mask mandates in the classroom, CNN reported.

New Delhi Jan 24 PTI Air India has decided to check grooming and measure the body mass index BMI of cabin crew members at the airports just before their flights according to an official order The carriers two unions -- Air India Employees Union AIEU and All India Cabin Crew Association AICCA -- on Monday wrote a letter to Chairman and Managing Director CMD Vikram Dev Dutt opposing the order on the grounds that it is dehumanising and in violation of rules prescribed by aviation regulator DGCABMI is a persons weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in metres A high BMI can indicate high body fatness stated the website of US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The order dated January 20 2022 has come days before Air Indias hand over to the Tata group which acquired the carrier in acompetitive bidding process last year Cabin crew who are well dressed and well groomed according to uniform standards and regulations present a positive and professional image of the airline the order statedIt is therefore emphasized that all cabin crew adhere to uniform regulations communicated by the circular dated November 18 2019 the order noted The January 20 order was sent by Vasudha Chandana ExecutiveDirector -- In-flight Services Air India to all cabincrew members in the carrierGrooming associates have been assigned the task of recording observations on the BMImanagementgroominguniform turnout of cabin crew when they report for a flight or standby duty at CCMCO Cabin Crew Movement Control Office shenoted These observations mustbe compiled and sent to her office she stated Each cabin crew shall be observed or assessed once on quarterly basis shenoted However it will be the responsibility of the cabin supervisor of the flight to ensure that her or his set of crew are well turned out and follow complete uniform regulations she mentioned All cabin supervisors must lead by example and ensure compliance by cabin crew at all times she stated Any non-compliance by a crew member must be notedin the report of thecabin supervisor she noted In a letter to the CMD the aforementioned two unions said that as per DGCAs rules the BMI checks can be done only by medicalpractitioners The unions said that such BMI checks at airports by non-medical grooming associates violates not only DGCA rules but alsosettled service conditions andcourt orders We must stipulate that we are not objecting to BMI checks which crew have undergone for more than 15 years now however the same must be conducted by medical doctors in the privacy of the Air India clinic as has been the case until now the unions noted This process of weighing scale checks at airports dehumanizes anddenigrates Air Indiascabin crew apart from violating working conditions they statedPTI DSP RCJ RCJ

Three monkeys were discovered and killed after a truck transporting them to a laboratory slammed in Pennsylvania, allowing them to escape and sparking a police hunt. The truck turned in front of an oncoming dump truck near Danville, Pennsylvania, on Friday. It was on its way to a facility in Florida. Police reported on Saturday […]