Hello and welcome to news At this hour, I am your host. Rica Roy for the headlines. Aviation regulator tells airlines to get serious about unruly passengers or else face action. The woman who was urinated on says that Shankar Shankar Mishra are co passenger. Begged for forgiveness. Says he has a family. But Mishra's company doesn't wait. He has been sacked in two years. The first of many foreign universities could be in India. The University Grants Commission says they don't have any intention of interfering in the education these colleges provide, except in exceptional cases. The election for the post of mayor in Delhi is delayed after Aam Aadmi party and BJP counsellors physically target each yada in a complete meltdown. More than 500 homes in Joshi meth have now got cracks. The town is sinking. Exclusive Crown Report Here is our top Storey Shankar Mishra. The Bank A who urinated on a co passenger on an Air India flight from New York to Delhi, has now been sacked by his company, Wells Fargo. Mishra, who remains missing, faces multiple charges and is yet to be arrested. This all a day in which the aviation regulator sternly warned airlines to get serious about violent passengers or face serious action. In a letter to the airlines, the regulator has issued an adviser on unruly passengers it has said get serious about unruly passengers or invite enforcement action. Known action in appropriate action has tarnished image of air travel. They also said Pilot in command responsible for assessing if cabin crew can control the situation or not. They've also said that that the pilot should use restraining devices when all conciliatory approach is failed. Sources in the Delhi police last known location of washed Bangalore, according to a source, is his sister lives than that's where he had gone to Bangalore, to meet assistant and after meeting his sister. He has gone absconding, has gone missing. And that's what a team has been camped in a Bangalore ritual to to locate him, not just in Bangalore, and also one more team has also been seemed to Mumbai was his father lives or two teams have already been dispatched to both these places, and both the T have got in touch with the sister and also Father and what you're both sister and father have have assured the Delhi police that they will be cooperating with the investigation and then they would be They would be conveying any, if at all, if they get any information about the whereabouts of Shankar. Mr. Keeping that aside, Delhi police is also not taking any chance because she is working in an MNC and that's where the Delhi police has also opened a local club to prevent him from a fleeing the country. But what we're being told, it said that Delhi police, despite him a so that they have got some concrete leads on the location of the whereabouts of Shankar. Mr they are working on it, though they don't want to reveal what kind of leads that they have got it the nature of the leads. But what we are being told us that it has something to do with the which will lead and that's where they are working on it and very soon they're hopeful that they will be catching Mr. But what exactly happened on that Air India flight? We have this details. After a drunk passenger urinated on a woman flyer in the business class of an Air India flight last year, the crude brought the man to her seat and forced her to face him as he apologised and begged to be spared arrest, documents have revealed. The woman wrote to the Air India Group chairman on November 27th day after the incident on the New York de Lima flight. But Air India filed a police complaint only on January 4th at 12 noon. This is what the has revealed against the offender, Mumbai businessman Shankar Mishra. Now the woman has detailed her appalling experience in a letter to Air India, which is part of the for, She said. When she complained to the crew that her seat clothes, bags and shoes was soaked in urine, the flight staff refused to touch them. Instead, they sprayed her bag and shoes with disinfectant and given a set of pyjamas and socks. When she asked changes seat, she was told that no seats were available, though another passenger said that they were. She also added that the flight, who told her that the pilot vetoed giving her a seat in first class instead. This is after she's been urinated on. The woman also says she demanded Shankar Mishra's arrest immediately on landing, but the crew told her he wanted to apologise and brought him to her instead. Now, the woman on the Air India flight said she stated clearly that she did not want to interact with the man who had urinated on her or see his face. She specifically said she wanted for him to be arrested. On arrival, however, the crew brought the offender before her against her wishes, and they major sit opposite each other in the crew seats. Believe it or not, she expressed that she was stunned when he started crying and profusely apologising to her, begging her not to lodge a complaint against him because he said his family man and didn't want his wife and child to be affected by this incident. Now the woman says that in her already destroyed state, she told the accused that his actions were inexcusable. But in the face of his pleading and begging in front of her, the woman writes that he founded difficult to insist on his arrest or to press any charges against him. Now. The airline also disclosed her phone number and passed it to Shankar Mishra so that he could pay for a shoes and dry cleaning, which she said she returned as she did not want the money Now. She said in her letter that the Air India crew is deeply unprofessional, failed to protect the safety and dignity of the passengers, and did not show any good judgement about how much alcohol to serve a passenger on board and was not proactive in handling a sensitive and traumatic situation. Now what exactly has Air India said in its rebuttal, while the CEO Campell Wilson has written to the staff asking them to report improper behaviour on flights at earliest, even if the matter appears to have been settled. The repulsive in felt by the affected passenger is totally understandable and we share her distress is what the CEO wrote in an internal memo. There is a tweet from Shankar Mishra's lawyer, he said. Lady in her Bess it Condoned alleged act showed no intention to file a complaint. He also says of WhatsApp chat shows accused, got clothes bagged, cleaned and delivered. The ladies persisting grievance was only with respect to compensation, and he also says that that Shankar Mishra agreed on money to be paid via P M on December 19th are the woman's daughter, apparently returned the money to them. Statements by cabin crew say no witness to the incident is there only her say evidence settlement reached between two sites are formed in cabin crews. Statements after sparking around the Rajasthan Anti Corruption Bureau has taken back it's controversial order. In its previous order, the DJ of Rajasthan Anti Corruption Bureau had instructed officials not to reveal the name or show a picture of anyone. Court by the ECB in decoy of operations for corruption The government came under attack from its own MME lass and ministers. The chief minister, who also holds the home portfolio, stepped in and took back the order, joining me on the show of this hour as my colleague Harsha Kumari sing on the storey Harsha. So it took the chief minister to step in for this order to be taken back well. It appears to have been passed by the new D G of the Anti Corruption Bureau who just taken charge in the first week of January. Mr. Hemant Period are she and this order, which was passed on the Fourth of January, created a lot of controversy in Rajasthan opposition BJP attacking the Congress, saying that they're going to be shielding the corrupt by not revealing the name or the photograph of that person to of cost the department and the designation could have been revealed. And the logic behind this order, according to the was a Supreme Court ruling about having investigated it. Having looked at it close, the the chief minister stepped in and now order has been passed today on the sixth of January, saying that there earlier order has been taken back so clearly it took the chief minister's intervention to have the of the Anti Corruption Bureau withdraw that controversial order. Harsha, thank you very much for joining us with that report. A wetland continuing to sink in parts of high altitude town of Joshi Meth in Uttarakhand The District District Administration has launched relief and rescue operations in the area. Tourists have been banned from staying in hotels damaged by land subsidence. Now a team of experts and scientists have been stationed at Joshi meth for conducting a house to house survey. On seventh of January, more families will be evacuated and shifted to safe locations. All development projects, including NTP, see Plant Badrinath Master Plan Shard Um Road Project have been stopped with immediate effect until further orders the roads to only have been closed as well. Tan you, Shri Pandey joins us at the sour on that storey than a she You've been in that area for a while now. Extensively visiting are some of the houses talking to people there. Tell us what's the latest While what we are learning right now The very latest Africa that a team of NDR F has been deployed by the Uttarakhand government. The team has already reached Joshi meth and they will be stationed here on light also tomorrow. Other than that, a team of experts and scientists have also been sent by the Uttarakhand government. They're stationed here a Joshi month. They are conducting a house to house survey and they will continue that tomorrow morning to assess the situation and to basically, you know, basically calculate as how many families have to be shifted to safer locations. And what kind of what is the greatness of the situation on the ground? And as you rightly mentioned, all roads going to only has been closed early. It's just about 20 kilometres from from Joshi meth, and it's a hill station. It opens in mid January, which is a peak tourism season there because it only experienced snow. But all road going to the, uh earlier have been told as of now, and all development projects, including the anti PC plans, which residents are saying is one of the biggest reasons for this kind of a land subsidence which is witnessed in Joshi meth. So that plant has been completely stopped by the uh track and government. Other than that the Badrinath master plan, which is been ordered by the central government, the charred UM road project have also been halted for the meanwhile with immediate effect until further orders. Also, what is expected tomorrow is that the track and chief minister will be visiting. Joshi made himself to keep a stock of the situation and more families will be evacuated to safer situation. This is there's the safer locations is going to be a difficult and a tough night because many families recalled in a chilly weather, and you know the temperature right now is one degree Celsius, it can drop to minus as well. In this situation. Many families are on the streets because they are very scared as to when their house starts developing cracks or their house in the house might completely sing collapse and that going to that kind of appear people are living on the streets are with the help of a small during fire that you know that what they're doing at this point of time, so that really hope and pray that our situation remains under control. Ministry. Take care of yourself, Will we are do understand that it's very cold there in Joshi meth and there is a lot of anger and anguish amount. The residents who are there and many of their houses have been damaged will, of course, have to wait and see how many of them have to be shifted to a safer location tomorrow onto another storey for the first time, for universities will be able to set up their campuses in India. The University Grants Commission has released draught regulations and hope that first such institutions will be set up within two years. Our move that would benefit locks of students, though at the moment there is still no clarity on how much a degree from any of these foreign universities will cost saw Millie and Aishwarya are in the final year of college. Like many Indian students, they dreamt of travelling abroad for their postgraduate studies. Engineering students. They want an M take degree from an Ivy League college, but now they are open to the idea of studying in a foreign university In India happens, we are not able to go outside abroad for various reasons. Maybe our parents are not allowing, or maybe due to some financial problems. So if a foreign universities are coming in in India setting up their campuses here so it will provide a great opportunity, our quality education will be increased. I had to go abroad then I had to pay for all apply for a financial loan. Her student loan will not mean which may have not away affordable for appearance to pay later. I think this is of a great problems. India has taken a step toward allowing leading foreign universities such as Yale, Oxford and Stanford to set up campuses and award degrees as part of an overhaul of higher education. Higher education regulator The University Grants Commission on Thursday unveiled a draught legislation for public feedback that facilitates entry and operation of overseas institutions in the country for the first time. While everyone welcomes what is being described as liberalisation of education, there are some concerns about the move questioned from our end This what level of teachers are? Is it the first category, the second other good. So I feel somewhere we have to first understand what are the norms that are being set up for bringing these universities showing? The British Council will consult with the sector in the UK to collect feedback on the terms and conditions on the details of it. Students welcome the decision to allow foreign universities to set up campuses in India. And while there are some concerns about the replication of the quality of education, campus life in campus experiences in India, students say the opportunities far outweigh the concerns with cameraperson JD Shankar in Kolkata, Saurabh Gupta and the TV. With attacks against minorities continuing, the centre has rushed more soldiers into Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir. The state government is also setting up new village defence counsel's armed Villagers who can ward off attacks the of the deployed in Rajouri. Five days after a horrific terror attack, six people, including two miners, were killed in terrorist attacks on Sunday evening and a subsequent I'd attack at the Shangri Village in Rajouri. Since then, the army, the police and the CRPF have launched a joint operations to track down the Attackers behind the targeted killings. Skelly, a job police have on on Ski, our freshman and Shobaki Extra Jewel, which forces I. This is the second time in a little over a year that the centre has rushed more troops to J and K. In October 2021 6 battalions of paramilitary forces, which is around 6000 troops, were rushed to Kashmir following targeted attacks. Now another 1800 CRPF troops are being inducted in Rajouri. Over 70 battalions of the CRPF, which is one third of its total strength, are deployed in J and K. In the last one year, there has been a major of strict in attacks against migrant Hindus. There have been 14 killings targeting migrant workers, Kashmiri Pandits and Hindus in Kashmir as part of efforts to step up security. Village defence communities are being reactivated in the region. Veces are armed with three not three rifles and will also be given SLR rifles to defend against terrorist attacks The A fire is a massive search operation is going on to track down militants behind Sunday. 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