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First time since World War II Paris Air Show cancelled

December 7, 2020509 Views

The Paris Air Show has been cancelled for the first time since World War Two, raising questions about the speed of the aerospace industry’s recovery from the COVID-19 crisis. Organisers said Europe’s largest industrial showcase, which attracts over 300,000 people every other June in alternation with Britain’s Farnborough Airshow, would not go ahead next year because of the pandemic’s “unprecedented impact” on aerospace. In an official statement, International Parish Air Show announced on Monday, “The next edition of the Paris Air Show will be held in June 2023, at a date that will be announced shortly. Exhibitors will receive a full refund of all sums already paid and the Paris air Show will take full financial responsibility for this decision.” “We are obviously disappointed...

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Calls to follow global guidelines on crew testing

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

December 7, 20201410 Views

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations (IFALPA) jointly called on governments to follow the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Council Aviation Recovery Task Force (CART) guidelines to exempt crews from COVID-19 testing that is applied to air travelers. The CART guidelines specifically recommend that crew members should not be subject to screening or restrictions applicable to other travelers. Furthermore, according to CART, health screening methods for crew members should be as “non-invasive as possible.” Despite this guidance, an increasing number of States are applying the same public health measures for crew that are applied to the general traveling public. Such measures include provi...

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Melbourne welcomes first international flight in 5 months

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

December 7, 20201386 Views

Australia’s second-largest city welcomed its first international passenger flight in five months on Monday, an arrival that will test the state of Victoria’s revamped hotel quarantine system. Australia has since March closed its borders to non-citizens, but airports serving Melbourne, Victoria’s capital, stopped accepting any arrivals in late June after an outbreak of COVID-19 that begun at two hotels where arrivals were quarantining. More than 20,000 infections were recorded in Victoria when hotel staff contracted the virus from people returning from overseas. The outbreak has been widely blamed on failures of private contractors to follow protocol. With hundreds of people expected to arrive in Victoria each week, state authorities have said police officers will now enforce ...

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China’s COVID-free ‘Hawaii’ chases local tourist dollar with a vengeance

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

December 7, 2020865 Views

Millions of domestic tourists are descending on China’s southernmost island province of Hainan, presenting a surreal contrast with grim hospital scenes, shuttered restaurants and stifling home quarantine elsewhere in a virus-ravaged world. Known at home as the “Hawaii of China”, the island, about the size of Taiwan, has been free of coronavirus for six months, drawing eager shoppers to duty-free malls, couples seeking a sub-tropical backdrop for wedding pictures, and surfers just looking to “breathe freely”. October arrivals of 9.6 million, according to official data, exceeded the year-earlier figure, before the pandemic struck, by 3.1%, although foreign visitors slumped 87%. That was a far cry from February, when arrivals had dropped almost 90%. A couple poses for pictures durin...

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Miami’s art week takes on new look as galleries, artists get creative

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

December 6, 2020783 Views

For almost two decades the first week of December in Miami has been synonymous with artists, art fairs, champagne-soaked parties, pop up installations, an explosion of new graffiti, and traffic gridlock. But the Florida city looks far different this year. After the coronavirus pandemic forced Art Basel Miami Beach to announce in September that it was canceling this year’s fair, the galaxy of satellite fairs around the city followed suit. Art Basel is typically one of the busiest times for Miami, and the jolt could not have come at a worse time for this tourism-and-hospitality driven city hit hard by COVID-19. An art installations is showcased as part of Art Basel amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Miami Beach, Florida, U.S., December 4, 2020. REUTERS/Maria Ale...

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Australia bushfire threatens township on Fraser island

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

December 6, 2020611 Views

Residents of a coastal township on Australia’s World Heritage-listed Fraser Island were told to evacuate on Sunday as a bushfire approached. Since it was sparked by an illegal campfire seven weeks ago, the blaze has blackened half the island off Australia’s north eastern coast, which is part of the Great Barrier Reef and famed for its tropical rainforest on sand dunes, and inland lakes. Residents of Happy Valley had a small reprieve after the blaze lessened in intensity on Sunday afternoon, Queensland state emergency services commissioner Greg Leach told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Aerial view of an area affected by a bushfire on Fraser Island (K'gari), Queensland, Australia December 5, 2020 in this picture obtained from social media. Save Fraser Islands Dingoes Inc ...

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Japan may resume inbound tourism from spring

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

December 6, 2020859 Views

Japan’s government is considering the resumption of inbound tourism on a limited basis from the spring as Tokyo prepares to host a delayed summer Olympics, the Asahi newspaper reported on Sunday. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s administration is leaning toward allowing small tour groups from Asian countries where coronavirus infections are well under control, such as China and Taiwan, the Asahi reported without citing sources. Japanese government officials did not return calls from Reuters seeking comment. Suga’s government has launched a subsidy programme to revive domestic tourism, a key driver of economic growth in recent years, but the scheme has been criticised because Japan is struggling with a third wave of coronavirus infections. New cases have spiked to record hig...

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Conservation outlook of Western Ghats grim, says report

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

December 6, 20201005 Views

India's iconic Western Ghats, inscribed by UNESCO in 2012 as a natural world heritage site, is threatened by population pressure, urbanisation and climate change, according to a new report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The IUCN World Heritage Outlook 3, published last week, builds on previous reports from 2014 and 2017 to track whether the conservation of the world’s 252 natural world heritage sites is sufficient to protect them in the long term. According to the 2020 report, the conservation outlook of the mountain chain of the Western Ghats, one of the worlds eight hottest hot spots of biological diversity, is of significant concern. If a sites conservation outlook is of significant concern, its values are considered to be threatened by a num...

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बर्फ के समंदर में पोलर बीयर से नजदीकी

UPENDRA SWAMI

December 5, 20201010 Views

ये बग्गी हमारी बग्गी जैसी नहीं है। टुंड्रा बग्गी पहियों पर ऐसी जगहों की सैर कराती है जहां जाने का कोई सड़क मार्ग नहीं। टुंड्रा बग्गी दुनिया की उन अजग-गजब चीजों में से है जो सैलानियों को लुभाती है। हम बात कर रहे हैं कनाडा के मनितोबा में हडसन खाड़ी के मुहाने पर स्थित चर्चिल की। इसे दुनिया की पोलर बीयर (ध्रुवीय भालू) राजधानी कहा जाता है। 2006 में चर्चिल शहर की आबादी महज 923 थी। लेकिन इस शहर में ट्रेन जाती है, यहां बंदरगाह है और रोजाना उड़ानें। नहीं है तो बस बाकी कनाडा के लिए कोई सड़क नहीं है। चर्चिल में तीन इकोसिस्टम आकर मिलते हैं- उत्तर में हडसन खाड़ी, उत्तर-पश्चिम में आर्टिक टुंड्रा और दक्षिण में घने जंगल। यह इलाका मई से अगस्त तक पक्षियों को देखने के लिए, जुलाई से अगस्त की गर्मियों में बेलुगा व्हेल मछलियों को देखने के लिए और अक्टूबर-नवंबर में पोलर बीयर देखने के लिए खासा लोकप्रिय है। टुं...

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कान्हा में बाघ से आंख मिचौली

RAJU KUMAR

December 5, 2020885 Views

कोर एरिया से एक राउंड लगाकर जिप्सी गेस्ट हाउस आ चुकी थी। पिछले दिन की सफारी और आज की आधी सफारी पूरी हो चुकी हो थी। आज की सफारी अगले ढाई घंटे में खत्म होने वाली थी। कई बार टाइगर रिजर्व की यात्राओं की तरह इस बार भी बाघ दिखाई देने को लेकर नाउम्मीदी ही थी। लेकिन घने जंगल में घूमने का रोमांच हमेशा बरकरार रहता है। तो एक बार हम फिर निकल पड़े कोर एरिया में। घास के मैदानों से होते हुए छोटे तालाब तक पहुंच गए। वहां सफेद कमल के फूल और तालाब पर पड़ती सूरज की रोशनी। काफी आकर्षक माहौल था। कुछ फोटो क्लिक किए और आगे बढ़ गए। हम जिस रास्ते से आगे बढ़ रहे थे, वह कोर और बफर का बॉर्डर था। पुराने इंद्री गांव का इलाका। अक्सर इस इलाके में बाघ द्वारा अलस्सुबह मवेशियों को मार दिए जाने की घटनाएं सुनाई पड़ती है। तो हमने दाएं-बाएं की जिम्मेदारी बांट ली और आहिस्ता-आहिस्ता आगे बढ़ती जिप्सी पर बैठे-बैठे जंगल पर नजरें जमा...