|
Japanese
car-makers to work on weekends to save energy
Sunday July 03, 2011 09:52:25 AM,
RIA Novosti
|
|
Tokyo: Japan's car manufacturing plants will work on the weekends as part
of the nation's energy-saving plan in the wake of a recent
earthquake and tsunami, the NHK television company said Saturday.
The country, whose major nuclear power plant in Fukushima was
badly affected by the quake in March, launched a campaign to cut
energy consumption by 15 percent Friday at the government's
initiative.
The campaign involves 18,000 enterprises and offices in the north
and northwest of the country serviced by the TEPCO and Tohoku
Electric Power companies.
Experts say power use is at its peak on workdays from 9 a.m. to 8
p.m., which is why 13 car concerns have agreed to work on the
weekends and make Thursday and Friday days off by September.
Thirty-five of 54 nuclear reactors, which covered 30 percent of
the nation's energy needs, have been disabled by the earthquake
and tsunami. The disaster killed at least 15,000 people, while
9,893 people remain unaccounted for.
The government said the damage from the disaster could total $184
billion.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Home |
Top of the Page |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Top
Stories |
|
Ahead of
the all party meet on Lokpal Hazare meets Sonia
Civil
society activist Anna Hazare Saturday met Congress president Sonia
Gandhi to press for a strong Lokpal bill and said he will go on a
fast from Aug 16 if a comprehensive
»
PM should
be covered by Lokpal: CPI-M
NDA to
attend meeting on Lokpal bill |
|
|
|
Most
Read |
|
 Justice
delayed, justice destroyed
They say justice delayed is justice denied. In Narendra Modi’s
Gujarat, justice is not just delayed and denied, it’s eliminated.
Nearly a
»
Narendra
Modi slammed for destroying 2002 riot documents |
|
Nearly
100 Bihar villages flooded, rivers rising
Hundreds of
people in Bihar have been forced to abandon their homes as flood
waters entered nearly 100 villages and rising levels of most
rivers threatened to inundate many others, officials said
Saturday.
All the inundated villages were in flood-prone districts of
Muzaffarpur, Gopalganj
» |
|
|
|
News Pick |
|
Indian
firm in Britain asked Asians to use fake names
A firm in Britain owned by Indian-origin people has asked all
Asians working there to use anglicised names as they said
customers struggle with Indian names. The Teachers 2 Parents Ltd
» |
|
Indian
student leader gets Australian award
The leader
of the association of Indian-origin students in Australia who
protested attacks against Indians in Melbourne has been given the
2011 Young Victorian of the Year award.
Amit Menghani, a 24-year-old aerospace
» |
|
South
Sudan to become world's newest nation July 9
South Sudan will officially celebrate the
founding of the nation July 9, Xinhua reported.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will attend the celebration in
Juba, which will be the capital of the new country. He will meet
with South
» |
|
 Girls top
Karachi University exam
Girls have bagged the top three positions
at a graduation examination conducted by the University of
Karachi. The three girls topped in BA Part-II and both parts
(Regular)
» |
|
|
|
Picture of the Day |
|
 |
|
Defence Minister of Mozambique Filipe
Jacinto Nyusi laying wreath at Amar Jawan Jyoti, in New Delhi on
June 28, 2011.
(Photo:
Fulchand) |
|
|
|
|
Comments
|
Quick links