APM Terminals Mumbai, India’s busiest container terminal, has embraced ‘Direct Port Delivery’ service initiated by the Indian government as part of its “Ease of Doing Business Program” to enhance India’s access to the global logistics chain. The streamlined Direct Port Delivery protocol can result in substantial savings of time and money for importers by reducing container dwell times after vessel discharge.
Day: January 5, 2017
Update on Collision of Container Vessels Wan Hai 301, APL Denver
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore continues to coordinate the containment and clean-up efforts of the oil spillage in Singapore’s waters following the collision of container vessels Wan Hai 301 and APL Denver. As of 5 January 2016, a total of 17 vessels and 222 personnel have been deployed.
AUS vs PAK: Australian opener Matthew Renshaw out of Sydney test due to concussion
Umpire Sundaram Ravi watches on as Matt Renshaw and Steve Smith of Australia call for a new helmet after Renshaw was hit on the helmet while fielding during day three of the Third Test match between Australia and Pakistan at Sydney Cricket Ground on January 5, 2017 in Sydney, Australia The left-handed opener got hit on his head twice during the on-going third Test between Australia and Pakistan in Sydney. Australia opening batsman Matt Renshaw has been withdrawn from the remainder of the third test against Pakistan at the Sydney Cricket Ground due to concussion, Cricket Australia said on Friday.
Benjamin Netanyahu questioned for second time in graft probe
Israeli media reports say Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu allegedly received tens of thousands of dollars in such gifts. Police questioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a second time as part of a probe into whether he illegally accepted gifts from wealthy supporters, police said.
Look global: Google CEO Sundar Pichai to IIT-Kharagpur students
Google CEO Sundar Pichai at his alma mater IIT-Kharagpur where he interacted with students. The Tagore open air theatre at IIT Kharagpur was packed to its full capacity as 3500 IITians turned up to listen to their alumnus, Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
J&K: Al-Badr terrorist Muzzafar Ahmed killed in encounter
Al-Badr terrorist Muzaffar Ahmed was killed in an encounter with Army and the Police in Machu area of Budgam district in Jammu and Kashmir, in the early hours of Friday. The militant killed in the anti-terrorist operation was earlier known to be associated with the terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-taiba, as per the reports.
Messi scores stunning free-kick yet Barcelona lose first leg…
Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona celebrates with his teammate Jordi Alba of FC Barcelona after scoring their opening goal during the Copa del Rey Round of 16 first leg match between Athletic Club and FC Barcelona at San Mames Stadium on January 5, 2017 in Bilbao, Spain The defending champs have it all to do in the second leg which takes place next Wednesday at the Nou Camp. King’s Cup holders Barcelona have a fight on their hands if they are to remain in the competition after losing a fiery first leg of their last-16 tie at Athletic Club 2-1 on Thursday despite playing the final 10 minutes with a two-man advantage.
Proton Iriz spotted in Indonesia – launching soon?
Proton has talked up exports of the Iriz for some time, but so far it has yet to happen. However, Indonesian auto portal AutoNetMagz.com has managed to scour photos of the B-segment hatchback in Jakarta, which hints of an impending launch in the archipelago.
Want a Sharper Brain as You Age? Volunteer
People who are active in local community groups may have slightly sharper mental skills at the age of 50, a new study suggests. The findings were based on over 9,000 adults from the United Kingdom who’d been part of a long-term health study since they were children.
Congress looks to start building a Mexican border wall within months
Local residents walk alongside a high metal wall installed by U.S. workers to replace fencing along the border between Ciudad Juarez and Sunland Park, N.M.,on Sept. 12, 2016.
South African pacer Kyle Abbott retires from international cricket
South African bowler Kyle Abbott celebrates the dismissal of Sri Lanka’s batsman Dhananjaya De Silva during the fifth and last day of the first Test between South Africa and Sri Lanka on December 30, 2016 at St George’s Park ground in Port Elizabeth. / AFP PHOTO Cape Town: South African fast bowler Kyle Abbott announced his retirement from international cricket on Thursday to play in England, catching his employers by surprise and highlighting a growing drain of sporting talent from the country.
Ramdas Athawale wants at least 25% seats in BMC polls
A president Ramdas Athawale wants at least 60 of the 227 seats; he also claims many BSP leaders in Uttar Pradesh are ready to join his party before the polls there Ramdas Athawale says he wants a fair share in Mumbai and UP, otherwise his party will fight it out on its own. File pic Boasting of a huge influence among the city’s Dalit voters, BJP ally and union minister of state Ramdas Athawale has sought at least 60 of 227 seats from the party in a pre-poll pact for the BMC polls.
PTSD suspected in murders
Lionel Desmond was part of the 2nd battalion, of the Royal Canadian Regiment, based at CFB Gagetown and shown in this 2007 handout photo taken in Panjwai district in between patrol base Wilson and Masum Ghar in Afghanistan. A clearer picture is emerging of Desmond, the former soldier involved in an apparent murder-suicide in Nova Scotia, with his own words on social media revealing a man struggling with PTSD who was trying to get his life back.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Facebook-Trev Bungay A clearer picture is emerging of the former soldier involved in an apparent murder-suicide in Nova Scotia, with his own words on social media revealing a man struggling with PTSD who was trying to get his life back.
Flying observatory makes observations of Jupiter previously only possible from space
Jupiter was observed with SOFIA by stepping the FORCAST spectroscopic slit across the planet. The left-hand panel shows a visible-light image of Jupiter with blue rectangles illustrating the orientation and size of the FORCAST slit.
Gemini: exploring a fast radio burst in 3 dimensions
Gemini composite image of the field around FRB 121102 . The dwarf host galaxy was imaged, and spectroscopy performed, using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph on the Gemini North telescope on Maunakea in Hawai’i.
The Mystery of Part-Time Pulsars
A new discovery has upended the widely held view that all pulsars are orderly ticking clocks of the universe. A survey done at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has fortuitously discovered two extremely strange pulsars that undergo a “cosmic vanishing act.”
Arianespace to launch JCSAT-17 for SKY Perfect JSAT
On January 4, 2017 Arianespace announced a launch service contract with SKY Perfect JSAT for JCSAT-17. It will be launched by an Ariane 5 from the Guiana Space Center, French Guiana, in 2019.
Fast radio burst tied to distant dwarf galaxy, and perhaps magnetar
Fast radio bursts, which flash for just a few milliseconds, created a stir among astronomers because they seemed to be coming from outside our galaxy, which means they would have to be very powerful to be seen from Earth, and because none of those first observed were ever seen again. A repeating burst was discovered in 2012, however, providing an opportunity for a team of researchers to repeatedly monitor its area of the sky with the Karl Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico and the Arecibo radio dish in Puerto Rico, in hopes of pinpointing its location.
Wait, Are George Clooney & Amal Clooney Expecting Twins??
While it’s hard to say how much truth there is to this baby talk, Lebanon’s Daily Star claims the human rights activist is pregnant and due as soon as March. The publication claims a source close to Amal’s family confirmed the rumors..
Ex-Haiti rebel leader wanted in US arrested during talk show
In this Aug. 24, 2016, file photo, senate candidate Guy Philippe laughs during an interview in Pestel, Haiti.
Tentative ceasefire in Mozambique
Sanctuary: A Mozambican woman and her child are among 3 000 people who have sought refuge in an internal displacement camp. Scores of people were killed in the country last year.
a A timeline of DRC’s chase for democracy
Power play: Violence erupted over President Joseph Kabila’s refusal to hold elections and step down. Photo: Eduardo Soteras/AFP Hopes are high that a landmark power-sharing deal between Democratic Republic of Congo’s political opponents will bring an end to a crisis two years in the making.
Good Pacific birds news
A new year always brings new hope – but 2017 is a big one for conservation in the Pacific. The last big leap forward in 2015 was the restoration of the islands of Acteon and Gambier in French Polynesia.
Experiment in suicide zone
New Delhi, Jan. 5: Depression levels and suicidal thoughts declined across rural households in 30 villages in Vidarbha, India’s epicentre for farm suicides, after a mental health experiment that its proponents say illustrates a new measure to curb suicides in rural communities. The experiment, called the Vidarbha Stress and Health Programme and implemented in Maharashtra’s Amravati district, appeared to pull down the prevalence of suicidal thoughts from 5.2 per cent to 2.5 per cent in 18 months, researchers said yesterday.
Women protest at RBI
New Delhi, Jan. 5: Shouting slogans against Narendra Modi, a group of women today protested in front of the RBI here over its decision not to accept old currency notes despite the Prime Minister’s promise to citizens. The activists, under the banner of All India Democratic Women Association , targeted Modi for the RBI’s policy, saying it had brought suffering to countless people who could not deposit their notes in banks before December 30. Today, the protesters shouted slogans like ” Modi sharam karo “.
Ex-soldiers back Congress
New Delhi, Jan. 5: The majority of ex-servicemen associations have extended support to the Congress ahead of the Assembly elections in five states, giving a fillip to the beleaguered party particularly in Punjab and Uttarakhand that have lakhs of families with serving and retired soldiers. Today, the Indian Ex-Servicemen Movement announced its support to the Congress, days after the Indian Ex-Servicemen League, a 4-lakh strong organisation recognized by an act of Parliament, and the Sanjha Morcha of Punjab did so.
JNU Chairs for four languages
New Delhi, Jan. 5: Jawaharlal Nehru University is set to introduce Chairs in four Indian languages to carry out research on comparative literature reflecting the social milieu. The Centre of Indian Languages under the School of Language Literature and Culture Studies of JNU will set up Chairs on Odia, Malayalam, Punjabi and Telugu.
Ovation of the Seas visit puts Hawke’s Bay cruise season on track to pass $20ma
Ovation of the Seas passengers flooded Napier this afternoon, exploring the best of what Hawke’s Bay has to offer. Photo / Paul Taylor The cruise ship industry is expected to generate more money for the local economy this year, thanks in part to yesterday’s Ovation of the Seas visit.
Dakar favourite emerges as Price crashes out
JOAN Barreda has become the clear favourite to win his first Dakar Rally after a dramatic end to Stage 4. The Spaniard leads the motorcycle class by over 18 minutes after one of his biggest threats, Toby Price, crashed out of the rally late in the stage. Matthias Walkner went on to claim the day’s two-wheel win, while Cyril Despres claimed his first stage win of 2017 in the car class.
Sadiq Khan promised to freeze train fares – but they’ve gone up anyway
Sadiq Khan has been accused of “failing Redbridge” after Tube fares increased this week despite his election promise to freeze them. LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan insists he has kept his promise to freeze Tube fares – after many increased by almost two per cent this week.
President tempers position on note ban
New Delhi, Jan. 5: President Pranab Mukherjee today seemed to be cautiously amending his position on the note recall, acknowledging a possible economic slowdown and miseries for the poor as some of its “temporary” outcomes. “Demonetisation, while immobilising black money and fighting corruption, may lead to a temporary slowdown of the economy.
Shipbuilder ASC sheds jobs in Adelaide
Adelaide shipbuilder ASC will shed more than 100 jobs by next month and South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon says it’s a “disgrace.” The government-owned shipbuilder revealed on Thursday that it will cut 130 shipbuilding jobs by the end of February as the Air Warfare Destroyer project winds down.
Babbling on in Brussels
“What do a Turkish olive grower, a Danish farmer, and an Irish fisherman have in common?” That sounds like the beginning of bad joke. But it was the question my father posed to me when I visited him in England a couple days after British voters decided to cut ties with the European Union.
Vio on a mission
VIO Panthers rugby 7s team is optimistic of a good outing at the Uprising Youth 7s scheduled at Lawaqa Park on January 18-19. The side has a mixture of players of Natabua High School, Ba Freebird Institute, Yasawa High School, Vio and Yasawa Stingers development players.
Hosting youth netball event to cost Netball Fiji $140k
NETBALL Fiji has estimated that the cost of hosting next week’s U21 Digicel Punjas International Netball Youth Series at the Vodafone Arena in Laucala Bay, would be $140,000. She said hosting the tournament showed how the various international communities had faith in Netball Fiji to host such big competitions.
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Rare four-Test series
South Africa and Australia will contest a four-test series for the first time in almost 50 years when they clash in March and April 2018, Cricket South Africa announced yesterday. Australia will tour South Africa seeking revenge for their 2-1 home series loss in November and will play four tests for the first time since being humbled 4-0 on South Africa soil in the 1969/70 season.
SA on track to victory
South Africa need six more wickets with two days still to play to win the second Test against Sri Lanka, who closed the third day at Newlands on Wednesday on 130 for four, still 377 runs behind the mammoth target set them. Vernon Philander and Kagiso Rabada both took two wickets in the Sri Lankan second innings as the home team closed in on victory and an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series.
Izmir blast caught on CCTV
CCTV footage from two different security cameras shows the moment of the explosion in Izmir, Turkey. Rough cut ROUGH CUT A police officer and court official were killed and 10 others were wounded an attack outside a Turkish courthouse, but authorities say the perpetrators planned something far worse.
Therapeutic Targeting of RNA Polymerase I With the Small-Molecule…
From the School of Basic Medicine, Shandong University, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, China ; Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research & The State and Shandong Province Joint Key Laboratory of Translational Cardiovascular Medicine, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China ; and Department of Cardiology, Qing Dao Central Hospital, Qing Dao, Shandong Province, China .