How many times have you had a flight at midnight or at 3am , and reached at your destination sleepy or blear eyed ?

This happens partly because the many airports in India work, 24/7/365 days a year

However, there are also a handful of countries such as the US, Switzerland and Germany and some airports in Australia, that follow a night curfew — these airports are shut down for commercial operations between 11 pm and 5 am. For instance the Ronald Reagan airport in Washington imposes a night curfew between 10 pm and 6.58 am. During this time, these airports only allow emergency flights to land and take off.

Night curfew

These countries have been following night curfews since the 1960s, when aircraft engines were very noisy, and, according to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the curfew was primarily a result of local protests about noise pollution at night.

Speaking to BusinessLine, the late Maurice Flanagan, the man who set up the Dubai-based Emirates Airlines, once said: “The best way to find out if a man has really worked in the airline industry is to check if he is deaf or not. A true airline industry person would have worked around aircraft that made so much noise that everyone around them was stone deaf.” He apologised profusely for asking the same question be repeated over and over again loudly so that he could hear. Flanagan had worked at British airports in the 1960s.

However, a lot has changed since then. Firstly, aircraft are a lot quieter today — they are 75 per cent quieter than they were 40 years ago. Further, airports and airlines have changed the landing procedures to ensure less noise.

Another thing that has changed in India’s context is that the aviation industry has grown dramatically during this period. India has now become the third-largest domestic civil aviation market globally. Domestic airlines are adding more planes with the number expected to reach 1,000 in the next few years.

A transatlantic flight was forced to divert to the Republic of Ireland because a pilot spilled a cup of coffee on the aircraft’s controls, it has emerged.

According to the Air Accidents Investigation Branch, the Airbus A330-243, operated by Condor, was traveling from Frankfurt in Germany to Cancún in Mexico on February 6 when it was forced to jettison fuel and divert to Shannon airport.

The 49-year-old pilot, who has over 13,000 hours of flying experience, had been given a cup of coffee without a lid by cabin crew and accidentally knocked it over as the plane was flying over the North Atlantic Ocean, carrying 11 crew and 326 passengers.

Some of the liquid spilled onto the audio control panel, which became very hot and produced smoke and a burning smell. The damage caused “significant communication difficulty for the flight crew,” and forced them to wear oxygen masks, the report said.

The equipment became so hot that one of the buttons on the control panel began to melt, which prompted the pilot to divert.

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch said there were no injuries and that the airline had since changed its procedures to ensure cup lids are provided for flights on all routes.

“The operator also issued a flight crew notice reminding pilots to be careful with liquids,” it said.

A spokesperson for Condor — part of the Thomas Cook Group — told CNN in a statement: “Flight DE2116 from Frankfurt to Cancun on February 6, 2019, diverted to Shannon airport as a precautionary measure due to a minor amount of smoke in the cockpit after a liquid spillage.

“After the aircraft was fully inspected and repaired by our team of engineers, the flight continued via Manchester due to the legal operating hours of the crew. As safety is always our top priority, we have comprehensively investigated this incident and reviewed the procedures of liquids in the cockpit. Our crews were reminded of a careful handling as well as to use appropriate containers for their water or coffee. We apologize for any inconveniences the diversion might have caused to our guests.”

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Researchers in Canada have given images of a lost, abandoned well- preserved shipwreck will shed light on the ill-fated 1845 Arctic expedition in which famous British explorer John Franklin died😱.

The wreck of HMS Terror has effectively been “frozen in time” thanks to the cold, deep waters of Terror Bay in Nunavut, Canada, and a layer of silt which has preserved artifacts such as maps, logs and scientific instruments, according to a study by Parks Canada in conjunction with Inuit researchers.

HMS Terror and HMS Erebus set off from England in 1845 in search of a route across the North-West Passage but got stuck in sea ice, forcing the 129 crew members to abandon ship in 1848. The men died one by one attempting to walk to safety across the Arctic.

Photos and video footage were gathered using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), in what the agency describes as “one of the largest, most complex underwater archaeological undertakings in Canadian history.”

ROV Was used to explore 20 cabins &compartments of the ship, the 1st time it had been explored

“The impression we witnessed when exploring the HMS Terror is of a ship only recently deserted by its crew, seemingly forgotten by the passage of time,” said ROV pilot Ryan Harris.

The team believes that written documents will have been preserved because the water temperature is zero degrees Celsius or lower, there is no natural light, and sedimentation helps to preserve organic material such as paper by making for an environment where less oxygen is present.

Marc-André Bernier, manager of underwater archeology at Parks Canada, said the condition of the captain’s cabin greatly surpasses expectations.

“Not only are the furniture and cabinets in place, drawers are closed and many are buried in silt, encapsulating objects and documents in the best possible conditions for their survival,” said Bernier in a statement.

“The excellent condition of the ship will, I hope, mean that there will soon be answers to so many questions about the fate of the Franklin Expedition, shrouded in mystery since 1845,” said Susan Le Jeune d’Allegeershecque, British High Commissioner to Canada.

HMS Terror was spotted on the sea bed off King William Island in September 2016, and HMS Erebus was found in September 2014.

Franklin’s last expedition was “the worst disaster in the history of British polar exploration,” according to the Royal Museums Greenwich.

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A strong earthquake shook the Greek capital Athens on Friday, sending people rushing out of buildings and into the The 5.1 magnitude tremor struck 23 kilometers (14 miles) northwest of the capital, according to the Athens Institute of Geodynamics.

The Institute said there had been seven aftershocks, with the largest measuring 3.1.

Residents who contacted the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said the quake was strong but short, describing televisions shaking and objects falling from bookshelves.

There were no immediate reports of serious damage or injuries.

The Ministry of Citizen Protection in Athens said the city’s fire brigade and police were being deployed. Two helicopters were also assessing the extent of damage.

Greece is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in Europe due to its fault lines. The country is situated at a convergence point where three massive plates of the earth’s crust — Eurasian, Arabic and African — grind together.

In July 2017, a 6.7-magnitude quake rocked the Kos, killing two people, injuring scores and causing extensive damage to the island’s historic buildings.

A major earthquake measuring 5.9 hit Greece in 1999, leaving 143 people dead.

hong kong -Two Chinese fighter jets buzzed a Canadian warship in the East China Sea earlier this week in what Chinese media called a “warm welcome.”

The incident between the frigate HMCS Regina and two Chinese Su-30 fighters took place Monday while the ship was in international waters off Shanghai, according to Matthew Fisher, a fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.

“The formidable twin-tail Russian-built strike aircraft flew within 300 meters (1,000 feet) of the Canadian ship’s bow, screaming past about 300 meters above the water,” Fisher wrote in a posting on the website

The Regina’s captain told Fisher the Chinese jets didn’t pose a danger to his ship, but Fisher’s report said their flight was more aggressive than anything the (Canadian Navy) has seen before from Chinese fighter jets. CNN has reached out to the Canadian Defense Ministry for further comment.

Chinese aircraft and ships had been watching the Canadian warship, and an accompanying replenishment ship, closely after it ended a visit to Vietnam and traveled through the South China Sea, Taiwan Strait and East China Sea, Fisher reported.

Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Ren Guoqiang on Thursday acknowledged the presence of the Canadian ships.

“We were clear about the transit of Canadian vessels through the Taiwan Strait and monitored the vessels for the whole process,” Ren said.

However, the Chinese state-owned Global Times newspaper put out a post on its official Weibo account Thursday, seemingly mocking the encounter: “The Canadian ships have received a warm welcome from our people’s navy and air force,” said the post.

Before the buzzing Monday, the closest Chinese jets had come to the Regina was several kilometers, according to Fisher.

Canada is just one of several US allies and partners, including France, Japan and the United Kingdom, that have been sending ships into the South China Sea or through the Taiwan Strait this year.

At the Shangri-La Dialogue security conference in Singapore earlier this month, then-acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan encouraged other countries to conduct such activities to a demonstrate a commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific region.

Beijing claims almost the entire 1.3 million square mile South China Sea as its sovereign territory and aggressively asserts its stake, with President Xi Jinping saying it will never give up “any inch of territory.”

The flyby of the Canadian warship comes during a time of heightened tensions between Canada and China, following the arrest of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou in Canada in December 2018.

Meng faces extradition to the US over allegations she helped Huawei evade US sanctions on Iran. The Chinese government claims the arrest is politically motivated and is trying stop the extradition from happening.

Shortly after Meng’s detention, two Canadians were taken into custody in China, former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor.

Both were formally arrested in May, accused of gathering and stealing “sensitive information and other intelligence” since 2017. Separately, Canadian man Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, who had previously been found guilty of trafficking drugs to China, was rapidly retried in January and sentenced to death.

The Canadian government has joined with human rights organizations to call for the release of Kovrig and Spavor, describing their detentions as “arbitrary.”

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A 3,400-year-old palace has emerged from a reservoir in the Kurdistan region of Iraq after water levels dropped because of drought.

The discovery of the ruins in the Mosul Dam reservoir on the banks of the Tigris River inspired a spontaneous archeological dig that will improve understanding of the Mittani Empire, one of the least-researched empires of the Ancient Near East, the Kurdish-German team of researchers said in a press release.

“The find is one of the most important archaeological discoveries in the region in recent decades,” Kurdish archeologist Hasan Ahmed Qasim said in a press release.

The palace would have originally stood just 65 feet from the river on an elevated terrace. A terrace wall of mud bricks was later added to stabilize the building, adding to to the imposing architecture.

Ivana Puljiz, an archeologist from the University of Tübingen’s Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies, describes the palace, known as Kemune, as a carefully designed building with mud-brick walls up to two meters (6.6 feet ) thick

Some of the walls are more than two meters high, and various rooms have plastered walls, she added.

The team also found wall paintings in shades of red and blue, which were probably a common feature of palaces at the time but have rarely been found preserved.

“Discovering wall paintings in Kemune is an archaeological sensation,” she said in a press release.

“Kemune is only the second site in the region where wall paintings of the Mittani period have been discovered,” Puljiz told CNN in an email.

Ten clay tablets covered in cuneiform, an ancient system of writing, were also discovered and have been sent to Germany for translation.

“From the texts we hope to gain information on the inner structure of the Mittani empire, its economic organisation, and the relationship of the Mittani capital with the administrative centers in the neighboring regions,” Puljiz told CNN.

Archeologists first became aware of the site in 2010 when water levels in the reservoir were low, but this is the first time they have been able to excavate.

However, the site was submerged shortly after the dig, Puljiz said, adding: “It is unclear when it will emerge again.”

Qasim also worked on another project with the University of Tübingen, uncovering a Bronze Age city in northern Iraq in 2016.

The team unearthed the city, which lies beneath what is now the small village of Bassetki in the autonomous region of Kurdistan, close to territory that was held by ISIS.

Days after the dig was completed, Iraqi security forces began their push to take Mosul back from ISIS.

Measuring a kilometer in length and 500 meters across (about 1,000 yards by roughly 550 yards), the

ancient urban area features grand houses, a palace, an extensive road network and a cemetery.

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Breakfast , special education zone removal of bias and stereotyping in school circular , financial to madrassas to introduce science , math, social studies and other subjects and a gender inclusion fund for equatable education are some key reforms suggested by the committee on NEP to tackle decline in enrollment of URGS in schools

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Also jawbone found in a cave on the Tibetan plateau and let you buy a Buddhist monk has revealed new details about the appearance , DNA and lifestyles of ancient species The 160,000 year old fossil comprises a jaw and very large teeth was discovered by a monk in the 1980 .

The discovery help solve the mystery unique DNA profile of some Modern Tibetans. 😀

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From amazon rain forests to the arctic circle , indigenous peoples are leveraging ancestral know how to protect habitats that have sustained them for hundreds and even thousands of years , according to a landmark UN Assessment of biodiversity released recently. But these guardians of nature are Under siege

Warns is the first major UN Scientific report to Fully consider indigenous knowledge and management practices 1 million of earth’s estimated 8 million species are at risk of extinction , The report says.

WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST THREATS TO SPECIES ?

1. Lost lands

2. Harmful subsides

3. Food consumption

4. Reformed markets

PLZ SAVE THESE ANIMALS FROM EXTINCTION one by one all of them are dying out 😢

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Hello everyone I just wanted to say hi, if you don’t know Im new here so my name is Daksh Dayalani , Im 10 years old and i have a very very big dream of becoming a professional blogger my hobbies are blogging playing , basket ball , soccer , cricket and going to new places around the world