| Tenders to be floated Bids to be called for waste management
CHENNAI : Ambattur may soon be relieved of its perennial problem of waste management as the local body plans to float tenders in a week to improve infrastructure at the Athipattu dumping yard and to build compost garbage sheds in various areas. The Ambattur Municipality plans to call for bids on April 24 to build a compound wall, at an estimated cost of nearly Rs. 1.50 crore, around the dumping yard. At present, the incineration of garbage at the yard poses health hazards, residents complain. Air and water pollution and stench are other problems faced by the residents. The residents in association with voluntary organisations, however, staged a protest a month ago against the Municipality's proposal to construct the compound wall. They fear that the place would become a permanent garbage disposal site.
Iran invites new reactor bids
Iran has said it will seek bids for two new nuclear power plants and will partly run them on home-produced fuel, despite Western criticism of its nuclear programme. Ahmad Fayazbakhsh, of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, said they would be built at Bushehr, the southwestern city where a Russian contractor is building Iran's first atomic plant. Fayazbakhsh said the power plants would each have capacity for 1,000 to 1,600 megawatts. The West says Iran's civilian nuclear programme is a smokescreen for atomic weapon ambitions, a charge Tehran denies. "There are already contacts with Russian and European firms. It is expected that construction would take between nine and 11 years," Fayazbakhsh said. The cost of the new power plants, which will be built alongside the existing facility in Bushehr, will be between $1.4 and $1.7bn, he said. "Because we have the capability to produce nuclear fuel inside the country, in the long term, part of the fuel for the reactors will be provided by Iran and the rest will be imported," he told a news conference. A Western diplomat said the tender announcement appeared to be aimed at justifying Iran's statement on Monday it had expanded its nuclear fuel programme in defiance of a UN demand to halt uranium enrichment, a process which can be used to make bombs.
Question follows Prince Charles auction
Zions National Bank of Utah had the only bid for the foreclosure auction of the Prince Charles Hotel this morning. The bank, which is foreclosing the hotel’s mortgage from owner R.K. Properties of Rockville, Maryland, offered $2.43 million to take ownership and cover the debt. But its unclear whether the auction is valid, said Dee Whitley, the bank’s trustee. He was told this morning that R.K. Properties filed for bankruptcy today. If the hotel goes into bankruptcy, it would be shielded from its creditors and the auction could be moot. R.K. Properties bought the hotel in 2004 from retired doctor Menno Pennink and his business partners. R.K. stopped paying its mortgage with Zions in fall 2006 and the bank got a court order to take over management of the property in late January.
Super Hot Blog Domain Names BlogScoop.com and BlogSpeed.com are ...
Las Vegas, NV -- Apr 13, 2007 -- /prbuzz/ -- Domain names based on two of the hottest Blog terms in the world are being auctioned on eBay this week. BlogScoop.com and BlogSpeed.com are both up for auction this week on eBay, and both are expected to get quite a bit of attention. BlogScoop commonly refers to the first occurrence of a story in the blogosphere. BlogSpeed commonly refers to the speed at which news and information travel in the blogosphere. "Blogs represent the future of how news and information will be distributed", said Jacob Anderson, Marketing Director for NameRSS.com, "The owners of these domains will have a phenomenal platform on which to affect the future of information delivery, and there is great value in that. For example, the domain Blogster.com recently sold for $275,000.
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