Air quality management in Tajikistan
The Air Quality Management (AQM) system in Tajikistan needs strengthening in its key policy and institutional as well as technical aspects to reduce health impacts of air pollution in the most polluted
Tajikistan
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WHO expected to launch 'emergency plan' to eradicate polio
The World Health Organization is expected to declare polio a global emergency after outbreaks in countries previously free of the disease. The WHO wants to boost programmes in Nigeria, Pakistan and
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Early completion of CASA-1000 Project: Pakistan signs protocol
A meeting of the Inter-Governmental Council (IGC) for CASA-1000 Project was held at Dubai on May 16-17. It was attended by the Ministers of Energy of four member countries - Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan,
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Russia to provide $ 500m for power project
Russia will provide US $ 500 million for CASA-1000 project which would provide 1000 MW to Pakistan. The offer came at a CASA-100 meeting. A meeting of the Inter Governmental Council for CASA-1000 Project
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Banking against Doomsday
Gene banks represent an overdue push to preserve crop biodiversity. It also needs conserving on farms. WITH a heavy clunk, the steel outer doors of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault closed on February 28th,
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Dhaka 9th of world's 21 mega cities
About 28 percent of Bangladesh's total population (41.7 million) is living in urban areas, said a Unicef report released on Wednesday. Among the top 21 mega cities of the world, according to the report,
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Accounting for water quality in monitoring access to safe drinking-water as part of the Millennium Development Goals: lessons from five countries
The objective of the study was to determine how data on water source quality affect assessments of progress towards the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target on access to safe drinking-water.
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Russia offers aid to help neighbours fight HIV
Russia plans to step up its international role in fighting infectious disease across eastern Europe and central Asia, in what some observers see as the latest effort by the Kremlin to reassert its political
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Food security: State included in roots, tuber crops drive
In another step towards food security, Odisha has been included in the international programme for Roots & Tuber Crops (RTC) initiated by the International Potato Centre (known by its Spanish acronym CIP).
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Pak wants China rail link through PoK
Pakistan wants China to construct a rail link through Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) and a network of oil and gas pipelines, which will help cut costs for Beijing's burgeoning energy needs and ensure
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14 killed in Central Asia quake
A powerful earthquake killed at least 14 people in a heavily populated valley in Central Asia early on Wednesday, emergency officials said. Almost all the casualties were in Uzbekistan, where officials confirmed 13 deaths. The magnitude-6.1 temblor centred in Kyrgyzstan hit shortly after midnight in a mountainous area some 35 km away from the eastern Uzbek city of Ferghana, which has a popul