French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to India on March 9, 2018, has brought an unprecedented achievement for the latter. Macron and Modi announced to start work by the end of 2018 on the world’s largest nuclear power plant at the site in Jaitapur in India. They issued a joint statement, …
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The otherwise ‘arbitrary’ or ‘biased’ or ‘Sinhala-Buddhist’ national media needs to be applauded for the restraint that they have displayed over the ongoing issue involving court orders to have the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne, arrested over 11 missing men during the war years. That the Government …
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23 SEP 2018 Contrary to what many advertised drug tests might promise, not all substances leave their telltale chemical signature in the body for the same amount of time. The moment we take a drug – whether we snort, smoke, or swallow it – our bodies begin to break it …
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22 sept 2018 Pirates kidnapped 12 crew members from a Swiss bulk carrier in Nigerian waters on Saturday. Seven other crew members were on board the Massoel Shipping vessel Glarus at the time. The vessel was carrying wheat between Lagos and Port Harcourt in the Niger Delta, and the attack happened around …
Read More »21 Sept, 2018 By Prejula Prem, Alex Longley and Jack Wittels (Bloomberg) — The shipping industry is pressing for a phased start when tough new rules governing vessel fuel get under way in fewer than 16 months’ time. Three trade groups and four countries where thousands of ships are registered …
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22 SEP 2018 The way that we currently measure food security severely underestimates the enormous scale of global hunger. A new study suggests that if we truly want to put an end to malnutrition by 2030, as per the aim of United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, then we need to consider …
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21 sept 2018 In an annual social responsibility report released Friday, “K” Line president Eizo Murakami said that the Japanese shipping company will take an all-of-the-above strategy to comply with the IMO 2020 fuel sulfur content regulation. “We will use low-sulfur fuel, install SOx removal equipment [scrubbers], convert fuel to …
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20 sept 2018 Pakistani officials confirmed Thursday that Saudi Arabia will make heavy investments in the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a central pillar of China’s international Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of infrastructure projects. “Saudi Arabia is the first country that we have invited to become a third partner …
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14th sept 2018 In addition to the many existing concerns about the IMO 2020 sulfur regulations – fuel availability, quality and cost – shipowners can now add one more: who is liable when something goes wrong? BIMCO’s contract-standards division has warned that the IMO 2020 sulfur regulations could lead to …
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14 SEP 2018 Last year the world took a turn for the worst. A global survey of human emotions has ranked 2017 as the gloomiest and most miserable year in more than a decade. While positive experiences have remained steady, today’s world is more stressed, worried, sad and in pain …
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