During the Special Session of the D-8 Commission Meeting held under the chairmanship of Turkey, UNCTAD presented the key elements of the joint D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation - UNCTAD Guiding Principles for Investment Policy making. Important agenda items regarding the forthcoming D-8 Summit Meeting were discussed. In January 2020, …
The Multan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) on Sunday urged the government to execute Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline as early as possible in order to run wheel of the industry. "The country is facing gas scarcity mainly because household consumption of gas has been increasing rapidly. To fulfil the current …
Iran said it launched a satellite into orbit on Wednesday that Western aerospace experts said could be used for limited military reconnaissance and also to monitor crops and track damage from earthquakes, flooding and other natural disasters. It was the second time that an Iranian rocket had carried a satellite …
Iran has discovered a deposit of light oil offshore of an estimated in-place reserve of 756 million barrels valued at $13.6 billion, the state TV website reported on Saturday quoting a senior oil official. The oil reserve was found at Khayyam field off the Gulf shore in Hormuzgan province. It …
Iran has started the nuclear reaction at its Bushehr power plant, the Russian company that built the reactor said in a statement on Tuesday that indicated Iran is close to wrapping up work on the site that has dragged on for more than three decades. The German company Siemens abandoned …
India is putting in place an elaborate plan for legal and institutional reform to ensure its civilian nuclear programme meets all international safety standards. The objective is to make Indian nuclear reactors more resistant to disasters, said sources accompanying the Prime Minister. A new law is on the cards that …
The “hacktivist” group, Anonymous, claims to have access to the sophisticated computer virus developed as a joint Israel-US cyber attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities. The group says it obtained details of the Stuxnet worm from the emails of HBGary, a US security company the hacker collective attacked in early February. …
Social movements have been considered by many sociologists as agents of social transformation. Emergence, dynamics and development of social movements not only signal major transformations of societies; but, social movements are indicators of societal conditions, and capable of influencing social and political structures as well. By presenting the case of …
The Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation (IKRF) of Iran has sent 30,000 Euros to Sri Lanka to assist people affected by floods in Sri Lanka. IKRF President Dr Hossein Anvari has forwarded the donation to Industry and Commerce Minister Rishad Bathiudeen, who is the Vavuniya, Mullaithivu and Mannar District Development Councils …
US lobbied with top UN scientist R K Pachauri to prevent appointment of an Iranian scientist to a key position in the Inter-Government Panel on Climate Change, according to a secret US memo leaked by WikiLeaks. However, in a statement to The Guardian, Pachauri asserted he was not influenced by …
Iran claimed Sunday it could now use domestically mined uranium to produce nuclear fuel, giving the country complete control over a process the West suspects is geared toward producing weapons. Tehran made the claim a day before a new round of nuclear talks with world powers that want to rein …
Tehran: High air pollution has forced Iranian authorities to close offices and declare a one-day public holiday in the capital, Tehran. State television says a government committee decided the pollution levels warranted the closure of all government and private offices, as well as schools and industries on Wednesday because of
Iranian lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei had to leave the country for protesting child executions. In the Islamic Republic children are publically executed, though they cannot vote till they turn 16. Ten-year- old girls are sentenced to death for having sex. In many of these cases the young girls are silent victims …
This new IEA working paper evaluates the potential costs and benefits of using natural gas as a vehicle fuel for road transportation, as well as the policy related to its market development. The transport sector is currently responsible for 23% of energy-related CO2 emissions, and transport associated CO2 emissions will …
Iran said that it is ready to resume talks with the West about its nuclear programme in November, officials at the European Union said here on Friday. In a two-paragraph letter to the bloc
Iran began loading fuel into the core of its first atomic power plant on Tuesday, moving closer to the start up of a facility that leaders have touted as defying of international efforts to curtail the country's nuclear ambitions. The Russian-built nuclear power plant in Bushehr has international approval and …
When Ranbir Singh Butola took over as the managing director of ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) in 2004, the overseas subsidiary of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), his brief was to expand India's oil and gas footprint. Not surprising then that Butola has spent the last six years living out …
With population growth, massive pressure has been put on natural resources to produce more agricultural products, whilst million tons of agricultural products go to waste during agricultural process. The main purpose of the study was to investigate effective factors in apple waste in Zanjan Province, Iran.
