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, …
Increases in annual mean temperature in the course of current climate change are expected to facilitate mass species migration towards higher altitudes and latitudes. However, this migration may be slowed, or even temporarily reversed, by infrequent and unpredictable episodes of low winter temperatures. Iran experienced a severe cold wave in …
In their last report before the UN Security Council votes on sanctions against Iran, international nuclear inspectors declared Monday that Iran has now produced a stockpile of nuclear fuel that experts say would be enough, with further enrichment, to make two nuclear weapons. The report, by UN atomic watchdog IAEA, …
Pakistan and Iran on Monday agreed to expedite the import of a 1000-megawatt power plant and decided to hold expert-level meetings every two months to review the progress of the electricity import project. The decision was taken in a meeting between Power Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf and Iranian Deputy Economic …
Many international statements have urged researchers, policy-makers and health care providers to collaborate in efforts to bridge the gaps between research, policy and practice in low- and middle-income countries. We surveyed researchers in 10 countries about their involvement in such efforts. The authors surveyed 308 researchers who conducted research on …
Gaps continue to exist between research-based evidence and clinical practice. We surveyed health care pro viders in 10 low- and middle-income countries about their use of research-based evidence and examined factors that may facilitate or impede such use. The authors surveyed 1499 health care providers practising in one of four …
Remote sensing has long been a useful tool in global applications, since it provides physically-based, worldwide, and consistent spatial information. This paper discusses the potential of using these techniques in the research field of water management, particularly for
Even as the threat of a fourth round of UN sanction loomed large over it, Iran appeared to have partially succeeded in ending its global isolation on the nuclear issue if one were to draw any conclusion from the two-day international conference on nuclear disarmament which ended in Tehran tonight. …
Two-day event will be attended by 50 nations, including India, Russia & China Under mounting global pressure to abandon its controversial nuclear programme, Iran hosts a two-day international conference here on Saturday on nuclear disarmament in a move clearly aimed at countering the high-profile Nuclear Security Summit convened by US …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other world leaders gathering here have cautioned the United States and the West against imposing new sanctions against Tehran while urging Iran to abide by its non-proliferation obligations. India and other non-Western powers believe that the continued exploration of a
Washington: US president Barack Obama declared the world safer after a 47-nation summit agreed to a four-year deadline to lock down loose nuclear materials to prevent them from falling into militant hands.
New Delhi: Recent hiccups in its relations with India over its controversial nuclear programme notwithstanding, Iran is looking forward to Indian participation in a conference on nuclear disarmament it is organising next month in Tehran. Scheduled for April 17-18, the conference
India is in talks with Iran for buying piped natural gas but security and price remain serious concerns. External affairs minister S.M. Krishna said on Thursday that New Delhi has taken up its concerns with Tehran.
Tehran and Islamabad will sign the operating contract of gas export from Iran to Pakistan by Friday, the Iranian deputy oil minister said here. According to Hojjatollah Ghanimifard, the contract will be inked in Turkey, and Pakistan has declared its readiness to transit gas to India. India was also a …
An ancient artefact is at the centre of a diplomatic row between Iran and the UK. Iran’s national museum has threatened to cut all ties with the British Museum to protest a decision to delay the loan of an ancient Persian treasure. The Cyrus Cylinder dates back to the 6th …
A seven-member investors' delegation from Iran's Fraz Aab and Germany's Centy Company headed by Consultant Dr Hossein Pouya called on the Minister of State for Industries and Production Dr Ayat Ullah Durrani, here on Tuesday. Fraz Aab and Centy is a joint-venture company. The German and Iranian investors showed their …
Iran will sign a contract with Pakistan next week to sell natural gas to its eastern neighbour, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying on Tuesday. The export contract would be part of "peace pipeline" project between Iran and Pakistan. Last May, Iranian media said Iran and Pakistan had …
