Archive for September, 2006

GM Adding Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle To California Fleet

General Motors and the U.S. Postal Service shift their experience with hydrogen fuel cell vehicles into a higher gear starting today.
A minivan, going into service in Irvine, California, will be the second for the Postal Service. The vehicles emit only water vapor.
There has been a similar vehicle around Washington D.C. over the past two years. […]

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

Doctors Perform Zero-Gravity Surgery

A French medical team hailed as a success pioneering surgery on a man in near zero-gravity conditions on a flight looping in the air like a roller coaster to mimic weightlessness.
The five-man team of doctors and a patient landed safely Wednesday at an airport in southwest France after a three-hour flight, but the mid-air surgery […]

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

Railway in Estonia: Government to Take Over Estonian Railways

Estonian Government took a decision to renationalize Eesti Raudtee (Estonian Railways).
The agreement of privatization of AS Eesti Raudtee is to be revoked, all the sold shares are to be bought back. The costs of the revoking will be covered by the special budget. Andrus Ansip, Estonian prime-minister said.
The Suprema investement bank will be represent the […]

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

SAIL supplies wheels to railways ahead of schedule

Steel Authority of India (SAIL) has said its Durgapur plant has started supplying locomotive wheels to the Indian Railways six months in advance of the scheduled despatch, reports Business Line.
The company had received an order in May this year to supply 120 `S-shaped wheels` to Indian Railways. All ordered wheels have been manufactured and despatches […]

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

Sierra Leone Road Transport Authority Public Sensitization: Traffic offences for which Traffic Wardens are liable to issue Tickets

Offences Enactment
1. Driving an unlicensed vehicle […]

Thursday, September 28th, 2006