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Amsterdam will bar cruise ships from docking in the city center as part of a broader effort to curb pollution and reduce the large numbers of tourists who visit the Dutch capital. The City Council passed a proposal Thursday to close a terminal where more than 100 cruise ships dock each year not far from the central train station.

Let's take a look at how certain countries are dealing with the problem: 1) Italy Italy has introduced entrance fees to some of its popular tourist attractions. This measure is being taken to to help control the number of visitors and generate revenue for local authorities. Venice now requires tourists to pay an entrance fee of €3 to €10 to access the city and its islands. This has helped in reducing the visitors and improve the quality of life for locals. 2) Greece Greece in a recent announcement said that they will be implementing time slot system in its most visited site, the Acropolis. Additionally, daily visits to the Acropolis will be limited to 20,000 individuals, with visitors being assigned specific hourly slots during the monument's 12-hour daily operation. Greece has also decided to charge entry fee to some of its tourist spots.

Also read: Chandrayaan-3 LIVE Updates: Soft-landing of Chandrayaan-3 on lunar surface likely on 23 August As for the eligibility criteria, candidates should be aged between 18 to 35 years to apply for these posts. The selection process for ISRO Recruitment 2023 involves a Written Test and a Skill Test. The written test will be of 90 minutes duration and will consist of 80 multiple-choice questions.

National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval, who is in Jeddah at present, said that India has regularly engaged both Russia and Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict at the highest levels. During a two-day conference on the Ukraine crisis in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Doval reportedly said, "India supports the global order based on principles enshrined in UN Charter and international law. Respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity by all states must be upheld without exception.

Aligarh has crafted a humoungous 400 kg lock for the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. The huge lock stands at an impressive 10 feet in height, 4.5 feet in width, and 9.5 inches in thickness, and comes with an intricately designed four-foot-long key. The man, Satya Prakash Sharma, is said to be an ardent devotee of Lord Ram.

South Indian actor Bala has been booked for allegedly threatening a youtuber and his friend after trespassing into his apartment in this port city, police said on Saturday. As per the complaint, the actor barged into the apartment of Aju Alex, who posts videos on YouTube under the nickname 'Chekuthan', while he was away and threatened his friend Mohammed Abdul Khader on Friday evening.

Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf party on Sunday accused authorities of denying his legal team access to the leader to get his signatures on essential documents for court purposes. Khan, 70, was arrested from his Zaman Park home in Lahore on Saturday shortly after an Islamabad trial court found him guilty of «corrupt practices» in the Toshakhana corruption case and sentenced him to three-year imprisonment. Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party, is lodged in the Attock Jail after being sentenced for concealing the sale of state gifts.

heavy rains battered China's northeastern Jilin province, according to authorities on Sunday. Nine reservoirs exceeding flood limits in the city had maintained proper discharge.

BCCI) to reschedule Pakistan-England World Cup match, scheduled for to be played at Kolkata's Eden Gardens on November 12, Press Trust of India reported citing sources. The Cricket Association of Bengal officials cited security concerns of Kolkata police for the match which is slated on Kali Puja. Kali Puja is one of the biggest biggest festival in West Bengal, and thousands of local clubs organise festivities with a large police deployment required to maintain law and order situation across the length and breadth of the city.

migrant workers, mostly from the Muslim community, left their homes for their hometowns or refused to step out following threats of reprisal attacks. In a report by the Hindustan Times, migrant workers from at least six Gurugram neighbourhoods left the city after they were threatened by right-wing groups.

U.S. atomic bombing on Hiroshima, where its mayor urged the abolition of nuclear weapons and called the Group of Seven leaders' notion of nuclear deterrence a «folly». The day to commemorate the victims of the world's first nuclear attack comes as Russia has raised the spectre of using nuclear weapons in its war with Ukraine.

Ukraine crisis has begun in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah. A source from the Ukrainian delegation told Al Arabiya News that during the meeting on Saturday, the 10-point peace plan proposed by Ukraine was backed by several countries, Xinhua news agency reported.

earthquake struck eastern China in the early hours of Sunday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, with state media reporting at least 10 people injured and dozens of buildings collapsed. Videos on social media showed shaking light fixtures, trembling ground and people evacuating their buildings, with one clip showing people walking past bricks scattered on the ground.

Narendra Modi is all set to virtually lay the foundation stone for the redevelopment of 508 railway stations today. The redevelopment of these stations is being done under the aegis of Amrit Bharat Station Scheme at a cost of over ₹24,470 crores to the exchequer.

G7 summit in the city, his hometown. During the summit, G7 leaders expressed their commitment to achieving disarmament but also maintained that nuclear weapons should serve as a deterrent against aggression and war as long as they exist. On the commemorative day, a peace bell rang at 8:15 a.m., the exact time the bomb was dropped, as around 50,000 participants gathered for an outdoor memorial ceremony, including aging survivors of the atomic attack.

Pokemon Go Fest 2023 promises a rollercoaster of surprises, none more captivating than the formidable Mega Rayquaza. Let's delve into the strategy for trainers to attain this legendary Dragon. Mega Rayquaza's journey has been intricate, emerging initially in Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, dominating the competitive scene before being banned. Now, it's poised to make its mark in Pokemon Go.

Arteta’s decidedly imperfect inheritance. There are David Luiz and Shkodran Mustafi, Dani Ceballos and Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Alexandre Lacazette and Nicolas Pepe. They assume a greater pertinence now, and not merely as signs of the transformation of a side in three years.

About 1,400 km away, Vikram, a driver in Delhi, had spent his lockdown days in anxiety. Confined to a two-room flat that houses his family of five, he did not have the luxury to develop new hobbies. He had to make sure he had a job when the lockdown was lifted.

Brand India enjoys liable to misuse? PM Narendra Modi's well-known flair for wordplay, using alliteration and other rhetorical devices, was given another airing when, during the parliamentary deadlock over the violence in Manipur, he took a dig at the opposition combine, which has adopted the acronym INDIA, and pointed out that the word 'India' has often been used as guise, or camouflage, by all manner of entities engaged in various kinds of nefarious activities. In support of his claim, he cited examples as diverse as the Indian National Congress, set up during the Raj under the auspices of Alan Octavian Hume after the 1857 uprising as a 'safety valve' and a counter-revolutionary sop to further British imperialism, and terrorist organisations such as the Indian Mujahideen and the Popular Front of India.

Joyeeta Gupta, professor of environment and development in the Global South at the University of Amsterdam, won the Spinoza Prize, the highest award in Dutch academia, sometimes referred to as the Dutch Nobel prize. Gupta’s work lies at the intersection of climate crisis, governance and justice, and the jury recognised it as “extremely broad and interdisciplinary”: She was also the lead author of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 along with former US vice-president Al Gore.

By Joseph Ax