May 23, 2021
Beginning May 24, Amtrak Cascades is adding more daily roundtrips to its schedule. A second daily roundtrip between Eugene and Seattle is joining the schedule, along with a third roundtrip between Seattle and Portland. The planned schedule allows travel throughout the day in both directions, with stops at seven cities in Washington and five cities in Oregon. This is the next step in ultimately returning Cascades service to its full pre-pandemic schedule.
Under the new schedule, southbound trains will leave Seattle at 7:25 a.m., 2:20 p.m., and 6:10 p.m. Northbound trains will leave Eugene at 5:30 a.m. and 4:40 p.m. and leave Portland at 8:20 a.m., noon, and 7:30 p.m. Amtrak’s long-distance trains the Coast Starlight and the Empire Builder also will resume daily service to the Pacific Northwest starting May 24.
Havana, May 22 (Prensa Latina) The activities of the most important event dedicated to record production on Cuba will finish on Saturday with the broadcasting of the 24th Cubadisco International Music Fair awards gala.
Majlis Ash’shura to host tourism minister today Published: 11:22 PM, May 22, 2021
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Majlis Ash’shura will host Salim bin Mohammad al Mahrouqi, Minister of Heritage and Tourism, on Sunday who will present his statement before the council.
This was stated by Shaikh Ahmed bin Mohammed al Nadabi, Secretary-General of Majlis Ash shura. He added that the council will allocate its 11th ordinary session for discussing the minister’s statement.
Shaikh al Nadabi noted that the first axis of the statement will discuss the reality of the tourism sector under the current and future impact of Covid-19. This includes several topics such as the tourism sector’s projected contribution to the Tenth Five-year Development Plan (2021-2025).
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan today will be the chief guest virtually at the inauguration ceremony of Karachi Nuclear Power Plant Unit 2 with 1,100 megawatt capacity. The K-2 Nuclear Power.
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May 21, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan today (Friday) will be the chief guest virtually at the inauguration ceremony of Karachi Nuclear Power Plant Unit 2 (K-2) with 1,100 megawatt capacity.
The K-2 Nuclear Power Plant is a state-of-the-art generation III nuclear power plant equipped with state-of-the-art safety and security arrangements. This includes internal and external security and accident prevention as well as state-of-the-art emergency prevention and response capabilities.
The operational period of this plant is 60 years, extendable for another 20 years. Availability factor of this plant and (capacity factor) is better and fuel consumption is longer. Construction of the plant began in November 2013 and after formal approval from the Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority (PNRA), nuclear fuel was installed on December 1, 2020.