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Around 100 air horns fitted in inter-state heavy vehicles were removed in a joint vehicle check that was carried out by officials from the State Transport Authority and the District Police Office in the city. The department wants to ensure that the city becomes air-horn-free and has strengthened the vehicle check. “Over 100 air-horn pipes have been seized in less than 2 hours, with the majority of them being found in inter-state heavy vehicles,” said George Joseph, Motor Vehicle Inspector. As per the regulation, no motor vehicle including agricultural tractors shall be fitted with multi-toned horns that sound a succession ... Read more

The city tourism bureau of New York City & Company (NYC & Co) has published a new record of over 62.8 million tourist arrival in the state during 2017. The new arrival is 3.8 per cent more than that of 2016. The data states that over 79.1 per cent tourist were domestic tourists and the remaining are from foreign countries. The most number of tourists showed up from UK, China and Canada. “It’s difficult to explain the role of politics, I think people are becoming numb to everything in the news every day. For international travellers, if there’s one thing ... Read more

South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has issued a proposal to ban on slaughtering of animals and birds, within 10 km radius of the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. The new move is to ensure safety for flight, from scavenger birds that have been causing a frequent threat to aircraft. The proposal further concludes as any violations informed by the authority could end up in a licence cancel. “No licence to poultry shops, running within a 10-km radius from boundary wall of Delhi airport, shall be granted,” said SDMC health committee. According to Bhagat Singh Tokas, councillor from Muirka, ... Read more

The much awaited Tourism Workers’ Pension Scheme will be up and running by mid-2018, informed the Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, Jamaica. The pensions committee, which is chaired by retired actuary, Daisy Coke, is moving steadily towards completing the preliminary processes related to the scheme. “Finally, the long-awaited pension plan is now on the horizon. We had two sensitisation sessions with the workers; having completed the sessions with the employers and having done the necessary legislative arrangements up to the point where we are now ready for the Chief Parliamentary Counsel to review and to send it in its ... Read more

American multinational technology company IBM (International Business Machines Corporation), has unveiled world’s smallest computer at IBM Think 2018 (annual conference), that measures (1mm*1mm) less than the size of a salt grain. The ideal model comes with nearly 1 lakh transistors, memory, and a photovoltaic power supply which is barely visible to human eyes. Besides all the prototype cost around just 10 cents to manufacture, according to IBM. The Chip is powerful enough and the main goal behind the invention is to make tags and digital watermark (cryptographic anchors) on supply chains and logistics, that can put an end to supplying counterfeit ... Read more

Travel is expected to peak this weekend for Emirates, as the airline expects yet another busy period with visitors passing through Terminal 3 ahead of the spring break holiday. “The busiest time for departures will be on Friday 23rd March in the morning and continuing all day on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th March,” the airlines said in a statement. With road works and infrastructure enhancements happening around the main airport highways and roads during this time, Emirates urges customers to build in extra time to their journeys to avoid potential delays. “Customers are reminded to arrive at the airport ... Read more

Photo Courtesy: the drive A self-driving test car operated by Uber, met with an accident last night at Arizona in US. According to reports, the Uber SUV collided with a woman, while she was crossing the road. Later due to the severity of the injury, woman died at the hospital. Usually while testing autonomous test vehicles, a safety driver takes control, as if the self-driving system fails to interpret the real-time traffic. This time the car ran fully automated, that led to a causality. Regarding the situation, Uber has halted all of its current test programmes in Pittsburgh, Toronto, San ... Read more

An IndiGo flight 6e559, heading from Srinagar to Jammu has initiated emergency landing, after finding a fuel leak from one of the engines by the pilot. The shocking highlight of the story is that it is the 6th incident, faced by the company with their Airbus 320 neon fleet. Earlier this week, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had grounded over 11 Airbus A320 neo aircraft due to recurring malfunctions in their engines. Picture Courtesy: IndiGo   Perhaps the current situation is just a technical glitch and is not associated with the PW engine on-going controversy, said Indigo in ... Read more

Ahead of the Gudi Padva, the traditional new year of Marathi Hindus, Apple authorised sellers have come upon with an incredible cashback offer worth Rs 10,000. The offer is a joint partnership between Apple India and ICICI Bank. On iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 plus, the offer comes with Rs 8,000 cashback, exclusively from ICICI Bank Credit Card EMI transactions, followed by iPhone 7 and iPhone Plus with a cashback of Rs 4,000. Meanwhile, the new offer is limited to purchases that are paid via EMI schemes from ICICI Bank Credit Cards. And hence, it is also noted that for a ... Read more

The world’s largest all-glass undersea restaurant, 5.8 restaurant in Malaysia has conducted one-hour vinyasa flow class, surrounded by schools of colorful, tropical fish swimming in a liquid azure sky. The yoga enthusiasts under the leadership of instructor Jessica Olie had performed downward dogs and, perhaps, the fish or dolphin pose.  The goal of the vinyasa flow class was to “improve flexibility, boost muscle strength, power up the immune system and produce an inner calm.” “Surrounded by Hurawalhi Maldives’s beautiful marine life, 5.8 Undersea Restaurant was the perfect location for the worlds first undersea yoga session! Attendees were able to calmly transition form one position to ... Read more

A magnitude of about 3.0 earthquake was measured in the Richter scale at central Oklahoma in the United States. Any kind of damages or causalities are recorded so far. As per the reports from the US Geological Department, the quake had fluttered with a reach of over 5.5 km, in the north-west of Oklahoma City. Oklahoma, being famous for its natural oil resources has faced a large number of earthquakes in the recent times, mainly due to the injection of wastewater from the oil and gas producing companies. Meanwhile, scientist’s reports as the episodes of earthquakes in Kansas, Texas and ... Read more

All-time favourite messaging service of Indians, WhatsApp has rolled out some new features for the users. WhatsApp currently has a daily active user base of about 1.3 billion users globally that makes them unique among other similar messaging services. A new Group description feature has been added by WhatsApp, with their latest update for Android as well as iOS users. Previously, this feature was exclusively available for the WhatsApp beta test visions. The add description option comes inside the Group info selection, from where anyone can edit the info within 512 letters. The text is further visible to all group members. ... Read more

The online peer to peer cab service, Uber and Ola drivers from Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore, Pune and Hyderabad had declared, a national wide infinite strike from Saturday midnight. The drivers collectively have put forward over 6 demands against the corporates. The advertisement from Uber and Ola are misguiding the drivers, as they fail to generate revenue to return their monthly vehicle EMI. The main problem faced by the drivers from the states, was the increasing number of cars and fewer customers, which further raised suicides among the drivers, due to the accumulation of bank debts. Frequent fine collection from ... Read more

The wholesome nutrient dense Jackfruit is about to be tagged as official state fruit of Kerala on 21st March. The core vision behind the move is to promote jackfruit and its allied products in the global market, said Minister for Agriculture, V.S Sunil Kumar. The Ministry also aims to generate about 15,000 crores of revenue, with the sale of Jackfruit and its associated products. The Jackfruit in Kerala are very organic in nature, manufactured without using chemical pesticides or chemicals, added the Minister. Ministry further expands the distribution of jackfruit tree saplings among farmers, which would further increase productivity. Studies ... Read more

The 12th UNWTO Asia/Pacific Executive Training Programme on Tourism Policy and Strategy co-organized by UNWTO, Ministry of Tourism, Government of India and Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Republic of Korea will be held in Thiruvananthapuram, the Kerala capital city from 19 – 22 March 2018. The event would be inaugurated by K J Alphons, Minister for Tourism, on March 18 at the RGCC Convention Centre, The Leela Raviz Kovalam at 7 pm. Kadakampally Surendran, Minister for Tourism, Govt of Kerala, Xu Jing, Director, Regional Progrmme for Asia and Pacific, UNWTO and Byungchae Yu, Director, Tourism Industry Policy Division, Ministry ... Read more