Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
The opportunity to create up to 50,000 badly needed jobs in the construction sector by building a new generation of “greener” power plants is being thrown away by long delays in the planning process, ministers have been warned. Union leaders have joined the Confederation of British Industry in pressing the government to clear the logjams that
Monday, December 20th, 2010
Cabinet agreed to the development of a national spatial data infrastructure for New Zealand, and directed Government agencies to get involved now – at the development stage. Cabinet also mandated LINZ, through the NZGO, to assume a leadership role in driving the development of this infrastructure. Read More
Monday, December 20th, 2010
“Open Government with its three aspects of transparency, participation and cooperation can strengthen the cohesion of society in Germany and support democracy. Politics, administration, markets and academia will formulate joint Open Government goals for Germany. As next step, in close cooperation with all stakeholders, the building by 2013 of a centrally accessible and unified, easy
Monday, December 20th, 2010
The Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture Mr. Sugri Tia says government’s policies and programmes under the 2011 fiscal year for agriculture will modernize and harness the full potentials from the agriculture sector to create employment opportunities. Mr. Tia indicated that all agencies under the ministry are, therefore, being empowered and strengthened to meet their core
Monday, December 20th, 2010
Investigators have blamed the recent loss of three Glonass-M satellites in space on a series of mistakes made by the Russian Energia rocket corporation, final results of a probe into the incident have showed. “It was established that the fueling of the booster by an excess of 1.5-2 tons of oxidant made the Proton carrier rocket
Monday, December 20th, 2010
Russia, a leading oil and gas exporter, has used more than 50% of its known oil reserves and might need to attract enormous investment to modernise its oil infrastructure. In the global energy market, rapidly changing due to a number of factors, such as the rise of Brazil and the shale gas revolution, Russia has
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and King Juan Carlos opened Saturday the country’s fourth high-speed rail line, making the country the European leader in the technology. The 438-kilometre (272-mile) route will slash travel time between the Spanish capital and the Mediterranean port of Valencia, Spain’s third-biggest city, from four hours to just 90 minutes. The
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
PUNCH – The satellite was manufactured by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited, a British satellite manufacturing firm, and it is scheduled to be launched into space in Yansy, Russia by Dnper, a Russian company specialising in satellite launch services. Abubakar said before the satellite, known as NigeriaSat-2, was moved to Russia in preparation for its journey into space,
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
ILOVEINDIA.COM – Hydroelectricity simply means electricity generated by water. Gravitational force of falling water is used to generate electricity from it. It is renewable and eco- friendly in nature. The best thing about the procedure is that the amount of water remains the same as before, even after the whole process. In the process, the gravitational
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
REPUBLICA – The government has decided to develop two storage-type hydropower projects in the near future in a bid to cope with the extended power cuts, which have paralyzed every sectors in the country. It has decided to expedite construction works of Upper Seti (127 MW) and Budhi Gandaki (600 MW) that have long been awaiting construction.
