AU$90 million penalty: Qantas Airways fined for illegal sackings during Covid pandemic; judge questions lack of remorse

A judge in Australia fined Qantas Airways 90 million Australian dollars ($59 million) for unlawfully dismissing more than 1,800 ground staff during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. The penalty is in addition to the AU$120 million ($78 million) compensation the airline had already agreed to pay dismissed employees.Justice Michael Lee of the Australian…

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One held for friend’s murder | Pune News

Pune: The Pune Rural police on Sunday arrested a man (30) from Wadgaon Rasai village in Shirur taluka on the charge of bludgeoning his friend to death on Saturday night. The victim, Avinash Javir (30), and the accused, Rahul Gawande, were consuming liquor and Gawande bludgeoned Javir to death after they had heated arguments, police…

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