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, …
Iranian and Western wildlife experts are working together to save rare cheetahs from extinction in this arid, mountainous region, despite a nuclear row between their governments. US and British-based conservation groups are backing a campaign spearheaded by Iran's department of environment and the United Nations Development Programme to prevent the …
Iran said on Tuesday it would continue enriching uranium, defying efforts by major powers to pressure Tehran into stopping such work. The EU's top diplomat on Saturday presented Tehran with a package of economic benefits to try and persuade it to stop its nuclear program, which the West fears could …
Sujay Mehdudia India, Iran, Pakistan yet to discuss key issues LNG, IPI pipeline deal inter-linked Pranab scheduled to visit Tehran on NEW DELHI: With India, Pakistan and Iran failing to resolve their differences, the 45-day deadline to sort out the "safety and security issues' concerning the $ 7.4-billion gas pipeline …
Caution India-Pakistan border at risk Swarms of locusts that were in Tajikistan in the last week of April, have moved into Afghanistan. Authorities say the outbreak was unprecedented and are examining the extent of infestation. The plague of locusts have worsened the situation in provinces of Badghis and Herat, which …
The block has one billion barrels of oil also National Iranian Oil will market the product After the successful discovery of crude oil in three wells of Farsi block in Iran, a consortium led by ONGC Videsh (OVL) and comprising Indian Oil Corporation and Oil India Limited (OIL) have submitted …
Iran may be withholding information needed to establish whether it tried to make nuclear arms, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Monday in an unusually strongly worded report. The tone of the language suggesting that Tehran continues to stonewall the IAEA revealed a glimpse of the frustration felt …
The debate on the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline has generated more heat than light. There has been a wide chasm between rhetoric and reality, with little informed public debate. It is indisputable that the booming but energy-starved Indian economy needs to tap every possible source of power that is economically …
The long-forgotten Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) and Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline projects are back in active consideration. While the top leaders of these countries try to thrash out the details at a meeting at Islamabad in Pakistan, held from 22-24 April, they would also have to work out a system to maintain …
The much-talked about Indo-Iran JL gas pipeline project has been on the backburner for sometime now. However, there are alternative projects that are being explored, one such being the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (tapi) pipeline. Murli Deora, minister for petroleum and natural gas, had been to Pakistan to take part in discussions on …
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday launched a 1.2 billion dollars project largely funded by Tehran to upgrade Sri Lanka's sole oil refinery, officials said. Ahmadinejad and Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapakse planted an ebony sapling to launch work at the Sapugaskande refinery, just outside the capital Colombo. The four-year …
Gas pipeline from Iran is a high-stakes game by Bhagyashree Pande The scramble for oil resources poses a unique challenge to Indian oil diplomacy. It requires us to explore new engagements or alternatively imbue traditional political relationships with a new, hydrocarbon-related value, according to Talmiz Ahmed, the present Ambassador to …
With India having spurned U.S. advice on dealing with Iran, the one-day visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to New Delhi on April 29 will have energy as the focus. The pending $22 billion LNG deal, the $7.4 billion Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline and exploration and production joint ventures in Iran will …
But don't support military options against Tehran Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad comes visiting New Delhi on Tuesday. Since the last visit by an Iranian president in 2003, the suspected efforts to acquire nuclear weapon by Tehran has become a bone of contention between the two countries. Iran formally denies that …
Iran has invited Indian companies like RITES, IRCON and CONCOR to bid for developing a 600-km long railway link between Chabahar and Fahraj. The link, when completed, will provide India a multi-modal transport corridor with Russia via Iran, bypassing Pakistan, under UNESCAP's ambitious Trans Asian Railway (TAR) project. The invitation …
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will stop in New Delhi next week on a brief "working visit" to be topped by talks on two multi-billion dollar energy deals, an official said Monday. Ahmadinejad will arrive here on April 29 after a two-day state visit to India's southern neighbour Sri Lanka, and …
Striking an optimistic note, India on Saturday hoped civilian nuclear cooperation with the United States and other countries would become possible soon. This comes at a time when the Left is waving the red flag on the Indo-US nuclear deal. "We hope civil nuclear cooperation with the US and other …
Pakistan and Iran are likely to sign the gas pipeline project by April 25, even if India chooses to stay away for the time being, officials said. "If India does not want to join in the agreement immediately, it can join later. We will sign it bilaterally for the time …
The European Union has called on Iran to join an international nuclear safety convention that could increase knowledge about its disputed atomic energy plans. In an address to a closed safety review meeting of dozens of nations with nuclear programmes, the EU urged Tehran to submit its Bushehr nuclear complex, …
