Samsung Engg to make India R&D hub The Hindu | Sandeep Joshi | Plans to enter power, steel, fertilizer and offshore sectors | NEW DELHI: Eyeing huge investments in infrastructure development in the country, Samsung Engineering India (SEI) is planning its entry into power, steel, fertilizer and offshore sectors, besides converting its India off...
Amid Disaster, Haiti Welcomes Back Those Who Left The New York Times | MIAMI - Since leaving Haiti in 1974 and becoming a successful engineer here, Fritz Armand has often felt that his skills were unwelcome in his native country. His efforts to build a desalination facility and a portable power plant in Haiti failed in part, he says, because of antipathy toward expat...
Harness Wawa Dam now and avoid water lack Inquirer | DON'T you find it strange that only a few months after Central Luzon and Metro Manila drowned in floods spawned by two typhoons, when water had to be released from dams because t...
France, Kuwait sign nuclear cooperation deal Middle East Online | KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait and France signed on Thursday a cooperation agreement for the peaceful use of nuclear energy, officials said. | The oil-rich emirate had announced plans to s...
Destroy the Earth in the comfort of your own home The Guardian | Want to make your own planet-crushing apocalyptic disaster film? It's easy with our Random Disaster Movie Generator | The world's doomed and he turns up again! John Cusack in 2012 Photograph: Sony/Everett/Rex | What with 2012, The Road, The Book Of...
Brakes on growth of financial capital Indian Express | It will not be an easy year, with Mumbaiites likely to continue driving through bumpy roads and standing in long queues to pay civic bills. With the proposed budget estimates for 2010-11 putting the brakes on the rapid speed at which development of...
BMC budget focuses on improving water condition DNA India | Mumbai: As the city is grappling with acute water crisis, Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) in its budget presentation today said its focus area will be to augment more water for the metropolis. | "As water is an important issue s...
Cash-strapped BMC to present surplus budget DNA India | Mumbai: Despite facing financial crisis this year, the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) would present a surplus budget tomorrow. | According to civic sources, this year's municipal budget will be around Rs 21,000 crore as against ...
$100m Ephelia Resort opens Nation | The 300-room US $100 million Ephelia Resort at Port Launay opened yesterday with 70 guests and expects to have 120 today and 200 tomorrow, its general manager Philippe Guitton told Nation. | He said 360 of its 650 staff are Seychellois – most of wh...
New guidelines on eco-housing, rain water harvesting soon DNA India | Mumbai: Brihanmumbai Muncipal Corporation (BMC) commissioner, Swadheen Kshtriya, today said the civic body in collaboration with the state government is preparing fresh guidelines for making eco-housing and rainwater harvesting mandatory in the meg...
Analysis: Chavez's socialist project badly hobbled The News & Observer | CARACAS, Venezuela -- A new slogan appearing on the T-shirts and banners of anti-government protesters in Venezuela sums up a growing sentiment about President Hugo Chavez after 11 years in power: "You struck out." | The list of strikes against Chavez keeps growing: Latin America's worst inflation, increased blackouts, runaway violent crime and a...
India 123 on pollution list The Telegraph India New Delhi, Jan. 27: India is ranked 123, two rungs below China, in a new assessment of the performance of nations worldwide in addressing pollution control and managing their natural resources. | The global environmental performance assessment, conducted by two US Ivy League universities, has ranked India above 100 on several key criteria — urban a...
