Already the poorest country in Asia, Afghanistan’s economic base has long been too small to support its population of 40 million. Annual per capita income had declined from US$650 in 2012 to US$508 in 2020 and is expected to drop precipitously to US$350 next year. The report indicates that the …
Atul Aneja DUBAI: The long-awaited Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan- India (TAPI) gas pipeline project is heading for a breakthrough during a proposed four nation summit at Ashgabat in Turkmenistan next month, a senior Afghan Minister has said. Afghanistan's Minister of Mines Wahidullah Shahrani told The Hindu on the sidelines of a major investment …
Report reveals the need to reach target levels of coverage for life-saving interventions India has the highest number of pneumonia-related deaths in the world Only three countries reported coverage above the target level of 90 per cent for any vaccine NEW DELHI: Pneumonia, which is the world's leading infectious killer …
For almost 2,000 years a monastery has perched on a rocky outcrop amid the khaki moonscape of Aynak in Afghanistan. In its heyday a pair of mighty turrets towered over an affluent community of monks who exploited local copper deposits and built beautiful places of worship. Archaeologists describe it as …
Various parts of the country were rattled by a powerful earthquake late Friday night, a private television channel reported. It was centred at approximately 75 kilometres southeast of Fayzabad, a district in Badakhshan province of northern Afghanistan, according to the United States Geological Survey. The tremors were felt in Lahore …
New Delhi: The U.S. Army has shown interest in replicating the low-cost Sulabh public toilet system in Afghanistan. It plans to construct 40 public toilet complexes linked with biogas digester application
Turkmenistan and Afghanistan have signed a framework agreement on moving forward a stalled project to build a gas pipeline from the energy-rich ex-Soviet state to the east, official media said Tuesday. The countries agreed in 2002 to build a 1,700 kilometre (1,060 mile) pipeline to deliver Turkmen gas to Pakistan …
US $1 TRILLION WORTH OF MINERALS Afghanistan is suddenly richThe Pentagon recently announced that Afghanistan is sitting on mineral wealth worth US $1 trillion—about 1,000 times the government’s annual revenue. The untapped mineral deposits, including iron, copper, cobalt, gold and lithium, a key raw material for laptop, cell phone and …
Shoumojit Banerjee Patna: Bharatiya Janata Party national spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad on Sunday said petroleum products in neighbouring countries were far cheaper and accused the Congress of
China is forging ahead with studies of resource reserves and acquisition possibilities in neighbouring countries, in part spurred by repeated failures to gain a say in iron ore pricing negotiations, state media reported.
Atul Aneja DUBAI: Resource-rich Afghanistan is looking for Indian and Chinese help to develop its vast mineral wealth estimated at around one trillion dollars.
NEW DELHI: Pakistan's India blockade and an international sanctions regime in Iran may put a spanner in Indian companies' drive to exploit the mineral bonanza in Afghanistan. Afghanistan's geological wealth is not new. But Indian companies extracting minerals face a unique problem: taking the stuff out of the country. Pakistan …
New Delhi: China has firstmover advantage but India stands to gain hugely in Afghanistan if its apparently huge mineral deposits are ready to be tapped. As reports spread about Afghanistan
KABUL: Afghanistan has nearly one trillion dollars in mineral deposits, according to a U.S. study, but there are doubts the war-torn and graft-prone country can manage the windfall offered by the untapped riches. President Hamid Karzai said in January that the deposits could help the war-ravaged nation become one of …
The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials. The previously unknown deposits
