Egypt

Annual SDG Review 2025: Financial inclusion in the Arab region

Nearly 65% of adults in the Arab region remain excluded from formal financial systems, according to a new report by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). The Annual SDG Review 2025 paints a sobering picture of persistent financial exclusion that is undermining the region’s ability …

For the sake of caution

Caution is good but it should not take the place of good policy making. By refusing environmental clearance to genetically modified cotton from Monsanto, the government of India has treaded the path of caution but not necessarily the path of good science and good policy. This should also not be …

Egypt

Researchers have discovered the fossil of a new species of dinosaur in Egypt. Paralititan stromeri, the dinosaur, is believed to be one of the most massive to survive on the Earth, weighing 60-70 tonnes. Experts say the find is significant because very little is known about African dinosaurs. The period …

Foot in mouth

following an outbreak of the foot-and-mouth (fmd) disease and the authorities' incapability to handle the situation, the Indian meat exports have declined dramatically

Pyramid times

Astronomers will be able to pin the date of the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza within five years. The theory assumes that the Egyptians used two bright stars

Victory against all odds

anti-dumping duties imposed on India by the European Union (eu) have been declared inconsistent with free trade rules, by the World Trade Organisation (wto). Starting from 1997, eu had imposed anti-dumping duties on imports of cotton bed linen from Egypt, Pakistan and India. "eu should formulate its trade policies in …

EGYPT

Disclosed recently, the results of a research has revealed that a massive campaign to combat a blood parasite in Egypt went horribly wrong and resulted in an epidemic of Hepatitis C. The research stated that the epidemic effected almost a fifth of the country's population and is the largest transmission …

Changing notions

egyptologists have found limestone inscriptions in the desert west of the Nile, probably the earliest-known examples of alphabetic writing. The discovery may fix the time and place for the origin of the alphabet. Carved in the cliffs of soft stone, the writing, in a Semitic script with Egyptian influences, has …

EGYPT

Dense smog engulfed Cairo during the last week of November. Exhaust fumes from vehicles, smouldering wastes and industrial emissions

Egypt

The Egyptian government scrapped controls on rents for farmland in October after a gap of five years. Egypt's 9,04,000 tenant farmers have become subject to a 1992 law allowing landowners to charge market-level rents and denying tenants the right to pass rented land on to their children. Effects of the …

EGYPT

Recently, a prominent religious leader in Egypt announced the willingness to donate his organs to needy patients after his death. In Egypt, where organ transplants were long been prevented, the gesture came as a shock and opened up a floodgate of debate. The announcement was made by the Grand Sheik …

EGYPT

The great Suez Canal - conceived in Pharaonic times and built by a French entrepreneur - which links the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, will be going in for a facelift. The trouble is that the Canal, just 5.25 m deep, is too shallow to accommodate the huge supertankers that …

EGYPT

Egypt has made up its mind to arrest the onslaught of desertification. A controversial scheme to make the country's deserts bloom has found favour with it, when recently in an international tender, the country announced its plan to build the world's largest pumping station. The station will pump 300 cu …

Enough room

TWENTYFOUR more chambers have been unearthed in Egypt's biggest Pharaonic tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Luxor in Southern Egypt. Archaeologists have discovered a total of 91 chambers in the tomb built for a son of Rameses ii. Around 67 funeral chambers were found in last May. In addition …

Much ado over the Nile

THE Egyptians are ready for battle to protect what they consider their nature- al right over the river Nile. The threat comes from neighbouring Sudan, which shares the river and has declared its plans of blocking it. The Nile travels 6,695 km from its remotest headstream in Burundi to the …

Pyramids in peril

The Great Pyramids of Giza -- one of the 7 wonders of the world -- are threatened by a Cairo ring road. Anxious to ensure the priceless structures' survival, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has hauled up the Egyptian government for a 3-mile section of an …

Miniature mammoths

THE last of the woolly mammoths -- an ancient elephant look-alike -- disappeared somewhere in Siberia around 10,000 years ago. This widely accepted fact was challenged last year when new fossil finds from Wrangel island in the Arctic Ocean suggested a miniature version of the mammoth was very much around …

Ecology becomes integral part of state policy

ENVIRONMENTAL planning, generally considered a luxury for developing countries, is becoming an integral part of Egypt's economic strategies. The country's parliament has been debating a comprehensive environment protection law in which stiff prison sentences have been urged for polluters -- even if they are heads of state-owned industries. Egypt's environment …

Dams and sea deliver death blow to Nile delta

THE NILE delta lies trapped between a dammed Nile and a rapacious sea that is constantly threatening to swallow it up. The death of the delta, which constitutes two-thirds of Egypt's habitable land, will be catastrophic because with 1.33 million births every year, Egypt's dependence on the river and its …

Southern trade losses offset gains in capital

FOR THE first time in a decade, developing countries have received more money from developed countries than they returned as interest on debt. But losses caused by declining terms of trade continued to offset the gains in aid. The United Nations secretary general's report, however, cautions this turnaround in resource …

It`s curtains on sound and light

EGYPTIAN scientists Y I Hanna and M M Kandil of the National Institute for Standards in Cairo have designed and tested a double-layered curtain using local textiles which absorbs sound and light to a high degree, reports the Indian Journal of Technology (Vol. 30 No. 6). The curtain is not …

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