Flight operations at Srinagar airport remained suspended for the second consecutive day as all flights were cancelled on Sunday due to dense fog causing poor visibility in the Kashmir valley, officials said. “All flights at Srinagar airport were cancelled on Sunday and no flight operations took place,” an Airport Authority of India (AAI) official said.The official said 28 flights, including those for the armed forces, were scheduled at the airport for Sunday.“The airlines took the decision to cancel all flights because of very poor visibility caused by heavy fog in the valley,” the official said.Close Flight operations have been severely affected at the airport for the past three days. related news Stage set for Incredible India Road show in Singapore Modi govt resolves to make changes in IPC, CrPC: Amit Shah On Friday, several flights were cancelled, while no flight operations took place on Saturday.A thick layer of fog engulfed most parts of the … [Read more...] about For second straight day, all flights remain cancelled at Srinagar airport
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The Next Wave Of Tacky Holiday Decor? Projection-Mapped Christmas Tree Ornaments
The next wave in showy holiday lighting? Projection mapping. Over the past few years we’ve seen the tech-y art form turn all sorts of surfaces into mesmerizing light shows. Now the Brazil-based creative studio Ambos uses projection mapping to bring a Christmas tree to life: Light shows have long been part of holiday traditions–from burning the yule log to the lighting the menorah to filling our lawns with ornate (okay, tacky) displays of holiday spirit. It was Thomas Edison who set off this collective fervor in 1879, when he strung up incandescent lamps all around his Menlo Park laboratory. Holiday lighting has gotten more extravagant and more technologically advanced ever since. To create the dizzying tree decorations, Ambos coded its own mapping tool with Processing software. The designers then digitally rendered the tree in 3-D, mapped out the projection on a screen, and projected it onto a physical tree. Cheesy as it seems, projection mapping could offer some real … [Read more...] about The Next Wave Of Tacky Holiday Decor? Projection-Mapped Christmas Tree Ornaments
Mapping The Staggering, Sorry State Of U.S. Student Debt
The rate of student debt has quadrupled over the last 12 years and, at $1.3 trillion, now exceeds every other form of consumer debt aside from mortgages. Today’s students and graduates have huge liabilities as they start their careers, which we must remember is a burden that previous generations barely had. advertisement The maps here plot that debt by ZIP code. You can see which cities, regions and states have the greatest amounts and also which areas have the greatest rates of default. They’re based on data from credit scorer Experian and the American Community Survey and were created by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Generation Progress, and Higher Ed, Not Debt. Aside from the staggering overall level of debt, the maps reveal a key point about the crisis: It’s affecting some groups more than others. Among people who left school in 2011, for-profit or community colleges (including several like Corinthian Colleges that have now thankfully gone out … [Read more...] about Mapping The Staggering, Sorry State Of U.S. Student Debt
Blackbuck poaching case: Jodhpur court to hear Salman Khan’s plea challenging conviction
A Jodhpur court will on Friday take up Bollywood actor Salman Khan's plea against his conviction in the blackbuck poaching case. The actor had filed a plea against his conviction by a lower court, which had sentenced him to five years in jail.However, there are apprehensions that the actor may not appear before the court in view of a death threat issued by a gangster, 'Garry Shooter', of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang on Facebook last week.During a hearing on July 4, Sessions Court Judge Chandra Kumar Songara had directed Khan to appear before the court on September 27, failing which his bail plea may be cancelled.Close The actor has not appeared before the court since May last year, when he was granted bail. related news 373 infra projects show cost overruns of Rs 3.89 lakh cr Panipat looks for a turnaround, Vidyut Jammwal's Commando 3 is profitable Unnao rape victim's sister says family won't perform last rites unless CM Yogi reaches village "Khan has not arrived so far and … [Read more...] about Blackbuck poaching case: Jodhpur court to hear Salman Khan’s plea challenging conviction
Paper industry to capture 25% market share of Rs 80,000cr single use plastics by 2025
Amid a growing debate over impact of single use plastics on environment, paper offers a sustainable option and can capture a fourth of the Rs 80,000 crore single use plastics market by 2025, if its use is totally banned by the government, a new study said. India generated 26,000 tonnes per day of plastic waste in 2017-18, of that only 60 percent was recycled and the rest ended up as litter on roads, in landfills or streams. Single use plastic industry is close to Rs 80,000 crore right now and growing. Packaging accounts for a third of India's plastic consumption, and 70 percent of plastic packaging is turned into waste in a short span.While uncollected plastic waste poses a huge threat to species on land and in water, single-use plastic bags and styrofoam containers can take up to 1,000 years to decompose, said the study released at the world's largest paper fair, PAPEREX organized by Hyve India, a 100 percent subsidiary of Hyve Group Plc, London, last week.Paper, on the other hand, is … [Read more...] about Paper industry to capture 25% market share of Rs 80,000cr single use plastics by 2025