Monday, April 25th, 2011
The Delhi government has decided to set up a separate agency to maintain street furniture, new pavements and green stretch developed in the run up to last year’s Commonwealth Games amid complaints about their inefficient upkeep. The agency, to be set up with an initial corpus of Rs 10 crore, will look after the upkeep of
Monday, April 25th, 2011
Two flowlines linking subsea installations on the Tordis field in the North Sea (Illus.) with the Gullfaks C platform are to be replaced by operator Statoil after scheduled inspections found corrosion. Statoil is joining forces with its licence partners to procure the new links, with replacement of the first planned for the second half of this
Monday, April 25th, 2011
Scotland’s first fully protected marine reserve, and only the second in the UK, is already providing commercial and conservation benefits, according to new research. After only two years in operation, it is already showing positive signs for both fishermen and conservationists, according to a study by the University of York and the Community of Arran Seabed
Monday, April 25th, 2011
Abu Dhabi has stepped into space as its first satellite, which would provide military, commercial as well as civilian communication, was successfully launched on Saturday. The Ariane 5 rocket carrying Y1A of Yahsat, a unit of Abu Dhabi’s investment arm the Mubadala Development Company, lifted off from the European Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana,
Monday, April 25th, 2011
The coalition has signalled its intention to direct the Green Investment Bank’s fund towards low-carbon technology (Special report: Green policy, 23 April). But the Institution of Engineering and Technology is arguing that the bank should also support energy-efficiency innovations in manufacturing. The bank’s aims are to deliver economic growth, facilitate the transition to a green
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
Anyone who reads Chapter 7 of Agenda 21 and then reads his local comprehensive land-use plan will immediately recognize that most of the provisions of the local land-use plan come directly from Agenda 21. More often than not, the elected officials who adopt these plans have never read Agenda 21, and many have never even
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
Japan’s Advanced Land Observing Satellite, one of the world’s foremost remote sensing platforms, inexplicably lost power Friday, likely ending its mission mapping Earth and monitoring natural disasters, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Read More
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
Kenya planned to force telecoms operators to share key infrastructure to reduce sabotage sparked by intense rivalry among competitors, a government official said yesterday. Bitange Ndemo, permanent secretary in Kenya’s ministry of information and communication cited frequent cuts to fibre optic cables, which trigger outages, hamper business operations and unnerve investors, as a reason. “We will have
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
Today GPS is a common and extremely useful tool. Europeans wanted to refine its accuracy by developing EGNOS, the precursor of the Galileo constellation. We look at satellite navigation and its applications. Read More
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
KPN’s earnings from mobile phone calls and texting are down because consumers are increasingly using special applications (apps) to access free services over the internet. This includes internet-based telephony such as Skype as well as Facebook and other free messaging services. Read More
