Friday, November 26th, 2010
TIMES OF INDIA – It has been almost two years now, since the southern railway began the construction of an 18-m wide road along the city’s ambitious mass rail transit system, dubbed as the city’s first ever multi-modal transport system, primarily to help people to transfer smoothly between bus and rail transport. The integration of road and
Friday, November 26th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – A team of Meteorologists from the British Met Office are in the country to support the country’s capacity in climate science. A statement released by the British High Commission in Kigali indicates that the Met Office, UK’s National Weather Service, has been working on climate change for more than two decades. The meteorologists, one of
Friday, November 26th, 2010
VOR – We propose to create a “road map” of joint actions for the next decade and to define concrete steps to implement a program of trade and economic cooperation between the SCO member-states. I believe we have all the opportunities for such joint development, for instance huge transport and transit potential within the SCO. I
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
VEOLIA FRANCE – At the Salon of mayors, Jean-Pierre Fréchette, Deputy Managing Director of Veolia Environnement in charge of local authorities, and Jérôme Bignon, President of the Coastal Shores and France, signed an agreement for three years, for the protection and enhancement of wetlands Coastal Conservancy. Wetlands perform many ecological functions in the territories: regulating and self-purification
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
ULTRa – Thus the ULTra London ‘Heathrow pod’ system is now the world’s first to move to 12-hour-per-day, 7-days-per-week-service, carrying members of the general public (retail staff commuting to work at T5) on unscheduled trips. Read More
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – Mining – and metallurgical industry, oil – and gas, tel-transmission, roads, ports and railways. Welcome to an investment boom in the north estimated to more than €114 billion over the next ten years. Read More
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
NORWAY NEWS – The population of Norway is now 4,908,100. Population growth this quarter was higher than ever before due to immigration. After a decrease in the population growth over the last three quarters, the population grew by a total of 20 200 or 0.41 per cent in the 3rd quarter. The population growth in this
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
GFZ POTSDAM – The geoscientist Hauke Marquardt from the Free University Berlin /GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences received the first prize in the category of natural science and technology and a prize money of € 30 000 for his thesis, with which he could prove that the velocity of the outgoing shear waves from earthquakes
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
GUARDIAN UK – North and South Korea are in a state of heightened tensions following attacks on Yeonpyeong island. How many of these incidents have there been – and where were they? Read More
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
ABC.AZ – Igor Shchegolev, the minister of communications & mass media of Russia, that project “Satellite Access to Internet” is implemented under supervision of the Modernization Commission of President Dmitry Medvedev. “Taking into account mountain relief of Azerbaijan and impossibility of on-air signal and cable laying in some areas of the country, I believe that satellite Internet
