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Last Updated: February 28, 2023, 11:15 ISTImage used for Representation. (Photo: Reuters)The mobile kit has been procured from the Germany-based KUNZ and is capable of fully recovering narrow-body aircraft, including the A320 and 737Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport has commissioned a Disabled Aircraft Recovery (DAR) kit that it used to recover an aircraft which is unable to move under its own power or through the normal use of an appropriate tow tractor and tow bar.In an emergency, the DAR Kit can be deployed…

Meta has finally the findings of an outside report that examined how its content moderation policies affected Israelis and Palestinians amid an escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip last May. The , from Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), found that Facebook and Instagram violated Palestinians’ right to free expression. “Based on the data reviewed, examination of individual cases and related materials, and external stakeholder engagement, Meta’s actions in May 2021 appear to have had an adverse human rights…

In the 1570s, when King Philip II of Spain sent emissaries to survey the flora and fauna of villages in central and southern Spain, he wasn’t thinking about ecological networks or extinction. He just wanted to know exactly what he owned. So, he asked at least two people in each village to describe the land, flora, and fauna of their territory to his surveyors. Now, 450 years later, a team of ecologists says the resulting answers to that survey have value as ecological surveys,…

Perfumer Vince Spinnato says that when actress and singer Lorna Luft invited him to make a fragrance inspired by her mother Judy Garland there was never any doubt he’d do it. But getting it done for the centennial of Garland’s birth on Friday, June 10, 2022? Well, that was another question altogether. “That was only 18 months ago, and it was really a race against time,” says Spinnato, an Orange County-based cosmetic chemist and perfumer for more than 20 years. “Because it really takes about two or three years to do a…