Day: May 6, 2021

South Africa to end captive lion industry, rhino horn and ivory trade

11:28 pm May 6, 2021

Johannesburg: In a major policy move, the South African government has decided to end its multimillion-dollar lion-breeding industry, which supplies cubs for tourism, lions for trophy hunting and bones for traditional medicine. It also decided to halt further trade in rhino horns and ivories. Though the policy is yet to be made into law, if […]

Taking steps to ramp up capacity to transport liquid oxygen with city: Delhi govt

11:22 pm May 6, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi government has taken a number of steps to ramp up the capacity to transport liquid oxygen, including tracking of tankers via GPS and putting a decentralized management system in place for distribution of the life-saving gas within the city, an official statement said on Thursday. The Delhi government team tracks the movement of each and […]

Around 400 new COVID-19 cases in Delhi: Kejriwal

Won’t let anyone die due to oxygen shortage in Delhi if govt gets 700 MT supply daily: Kejriwal

11:11 pm May 6, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi received 730 metric tonnes of medical oxygen for the first time amid a crippling shortage, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Thursday and asserted that no one will die due to lack of the life-saving gas if the Centre maintains the same level of supply till the second COVID wave lasts. While Kejriwal wrote […]

US lawmakers applaud India’s decision to not allow Chinese companies to conduct 5G trials

9:53 pm May 6, 2021

Washington: Top US lawmakers have applauded India’s decision to not allow Chinese telecom companies to conduct 5G trials in the country. The Department of Telecom in India on Tuesday had approved applications of telecom companies Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and MTNL to conduct 5G trials but none of them would be using technologies of Chinese entities. ”India’s decision to exclude Huawei and ZTE from its […]

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