PM launches development initiatives in Vadodara
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today dedicated to the nation, the Vadodara City Command Control Centre; the Waghodiya Regional Water Supply Scheme; Go to Source Author: read more
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China to build more marine research vessels
China has around ten marine research vessels under design or construction by the end of August 2017, according to the Oceanic Scientific Research Vessel Technology Summit 2017 held in Shanghai on Friday.
It is learned at the summit that the country’s first domestically built polar research vessel and icebreaker is expected to be put into use in 2019. The vessel will be able to break polar ice with both its bow and stern.
China has 50 marine research vessels at present, which fall into series including Dongfanghong, Xiangyanghong, Yuanwang, Haiyang, Kexue and Shiyan, said Xing Wenhua, president of Shanghai Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers.
Qu Tanzhou, head of science and technology department under the State Oceanic Administration, said the number and performance of these research vessels are far from adequate in terms of global marine research and international cooperation.
read more2nd World Congress on Marxism to be held in Beijing
The 2nd World Congress on Marxism is scheduled to be held in Peking University in Beijing next May, the organizer said Sunday. The congress, to be held from May 5 to May 6, is expected to attract more than 300 Marxism researchers to discuss Marxism in… read more
The Government’s divide and rule tactics on public sector pay must end – Peter Dowd
Peter Dowd MP, Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, responding to reports that the Treasury sought to conceal pay statistics, said:
“The Conservative Government’s divide and rule tactics must end.“
“Phillip Hammond has sought to pit private sector workers against public sector workers, to justify a pay cap which has seen real wages slashed in our public services.
“The figures revealed by the GMB today show that last year public sector wages were below the private sector, despite Hammond continuing to publicly demonise our public servants.
“Hammond’s subterfuge on public sector pay cannot be allowed to continue. Labour is committed to seeing parliament and the hard working public sector workers receive the answers they deserve around this Tory stitch-up.”
read moreIf hot air built homes, Ministers would have fixed our housing crisis – John Healey
John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, responding to Sajid Javid’s comments on the housing crisis on the Andrew Marr Show this morning, said:
“If hot air built homes, Ministers would have fixed our housing crisis. Any promise of new investment is welcome, but the reality is spending on new affordable homes has been slashed since 2010 so new affordable housebuilding is at a 24 year low.
“Rather than set more targets they can’t meet, Ministers should back Labour’s plan to build 100,000 genuinely affordable homes a year, including the biggest council housebuilding programme in more than 30 years.”
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