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 federal cabinet has approved the Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline project under which Pakistan will import a billion cubic feet of gas for power generation in the country. Federal Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira told reporters that a cabinet meeting on Wednesday also discussed increasing the health and education budget to …
The Obama administration said Wednesday that the United States would start participating regularly with other major powers in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. The decision was a further step toward the direct engagement with Iran that President Obama has promised. It followed an invitation to Iran to join …
Under the Rural Electrification Scheme, the Power and Energy Ministry has supplied electricity to Mimaduma electorate where around 1000 families live. The people in this electorate have lived 30 years without electricity facilities, the Power and Energy Ministry said. Power and Energy Minister W.D.J.Seneviratne told The Island Financial Review that …
ISLAMABAD (March 25 2009): Pakistans top economic managers are reported to have suggested to the government to shelve the multibillion-dollar Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project, and instead explore domestic resources to meet the energy requirements, official sources told Business Recorder. The Bush-time White House had strongly resisted the IPI, and …
London: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown appealed on Tuesday for Iran to end its uranium enrichment programme in return for international assistance in developing nuclear power. Mr Brown said the Islamic republic had a
A large agricultural area located in 20 km north of the city of Mashhad in the north-east of Iran is subject to land subsidence. The subsidence rate was achieved in a couple of sparse points by precise leveling between 1995 and 2005, and continuous GPS measurements obtained from 2005 to …
The overall objective of this research was the assessment of sugar beet industrial wastewater (SIW) which could affect soil hydraulic property. A completely randomized design (CRT) was employed with irrigation treatments and three replications in a plant located in the east of Isfahan during summer 2008.
Tehran: Iran said it had launched a domestically made satellite into orbit for the first time on Tuesday, a move likely to worry Israel and western powers further about Tehran
Iran said Tuesday that it had launched its first domestically produced satellite, a move that has prompted concerns in the United States and other nations about Iranian nuclear ambitions and its ability to deploy long-range ballistic missiles. The launch Monday, coinciding with celebrations marking the 30th anniversary of the Islamic …
Washington: According to senior American and foreign officials, President Bush had deflected a secret request by Israel last year for specialised bunker-busting bombs it wanted for an attack on Iran
Iran, a major oil producing and exporting country, also imports gasoline because of inadequate refining capacity and rising petrol consumption. This article examines the problems faced by an economy dependent on the export of crude oil and gas, that are compounded by the dilemmas of rising domestic consumption, a significant …
Application of hydraulic structures may control the destruction rate of the flood but sometimes they have undesirable effects on some aspects of flood behaviours leading to detrimental outcomes. In the present study, an attempt has been made to investigate the effects of bridges, culverts, groins and drops on inundation extension …
The objective of this study was to investigate and determine the nitrate and nitrite compounds in groundwater resources of Hamadan province, Iran. Totally 280 samples of water were examined for nitrate and nitrite during a period of six months from February to September 2007 belonging to eight cities of Hamadan …
The Caspian region is one of the oldest hydrocarbon producing areas in the world, and is emerging once again as a major source of growth in global oil and gas supply. In the IEA
As Of Nov, Tehran In Possession Of 630Kg Of Uranium, Says IAEA William J Broad & David E Sanger Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from global atomic inspectors. The figures …
In a new twist to negotiations on the much-delayed Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline, Tehran wants legal immunity in case of armed conflict disrupting natural gas supplies through the proposed line. Iran wants changes to be made in the under-negotiation Gas Sales and Purchase Agreement (GSPA) with consuming nations, to insulate itself …
The present study is an attempt to study the environmental attitude of Indian and Iranian higher primary school teachers in various components. The article tries to answer whether Indian and Iranian teachers differ in their attitude towards environment. A total of 1000 teachers (500 Indian and 500 Iranian) teaching in …
Overgrazing accelerates soil and vegetation degradation in rangelands. So, Livestock Population Density-i.e. allocated number of sheep per ha can serve as an index for measuring pressure on range environment. For this purpose, Sadra region has been selected as the study area, where it is located in the upper reaches of …
