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, …
reversing from its earlier stance, Iran has excluded India (and in all probability Pakistan) from a say in the pricing formula for natural gas that would flow through a proposed tri-nation (Iran-Pakistan-India) pipeline. This incident is yet another setback to India's plans for energy security through natural gas. Iran is …
Five nations bordering the Caspian Sea have reached an agreement to safeguard the waterbody and also pave the way for an equitable sharing of its resources. The treaty, called the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea, came into force on August 12, 2006, …
With Bangladesh playing hardball on the Myanmar-India gas pipeline, India has decided to go ahead with the project by bypassing its neighbour's territory. A route through Bangladesh would have been shorter and so cheaper. But Bangladesh was demanding too high a price. Among its numerous demands were reducing the huge …
Striking down the requests of the governments of India and Pakistan, Iran has made it clear that the country will not sell its gas at a knock-down rate. "The price suggested by India and Pakistan is almost half of the price we offered,' said the deputy oil minister Mohammad-Hadi Nejad-Hosseinian …
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has voiced concern over the environmental impact of Iran's nuclear programme. UAE foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan raised the issue in Abu Dhabi at a joint news conference with German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who echoed Western fears regarding Iran's nuclear programme. Unlike …
Have gas, will explore' seems to be the mantra as India's $90 billion oil and gas industry gears up for the July round of talks with Iran on the $7.4 billion Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project. The recent harping on gas as the preferred fuel, especially when rising crude oil …
• The European Union has banned imports of untreated feathers from countries close to or neighbouring Turkey, where cases of avian flu have been recently reported. The countries affected by the ban are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq and Syria. • The Chinese government has ordered an end to the …
Increasing air pollution in the Iranian capital Tehran, forced its government to announce a two-day holiday in an attempt to reduce traffic on the city's streets. An official tv broadcast urged people not to drive to work but use public transport, since air pollution had reached dangerous levels. The authorities …
Pak industries checked: Punjab environment minister Makhdoom Ashfaq Ahmed announced recently that the Punjab environment protection department would hit hard on industries violating environmental norms. He said that the self-monitoring and reporting tools programme (to assess and report the volume of hazardous waste generated by industries) shall be implemented stringently. …
A camera trap set in Iran's Dar-e Anjir Wildlife Refuge recently captured images of rare Asiatic Cheetahs. In two separate photographs, four adult cheetahs and a female cheetah and her four six-month-old cubs are found resting in a shade. Though protected in Iran, cheetahs face a huge extinction threat. The …
sri lanka is to export some 12,000 tea plants to Iran under a bilateral agreement, an issue that has raised the ire of environmentalists who say the move will jeopardise the country's tea trade. Sri Lanka is the world's biggest tea auction and trading centre and tea is the country's …
axis of trade: Iran is set to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO), after the recent decision by the US to end a diplomatic block that had prevented its entry into the international body since 1996. The USapproval was aimed at stimulating talks held in Geneva between Iran and the …
Iran and Turkmenistan have taken a step towards averting future water disputes. On April 12, 2005, they opened a dam in Germabab Mountains that will meet their water requirements. The dam, located partly in Turkmen and partly in Iranian territory, is called Dostluk in Turkmenistan and Doosti in Iran, both …
The controversy over the use of genetically modified (gm) crops in Iran is set to accelerate, with the un Food and Agriculture Organization (fao) recently deciding to implement projects worth us $6 million in the country. fao country director Abdur Rashid was quoted as saying that the organisation will implement …
water distress: The Andhra Pradesh government has embarked upon a new programme to meet the water requirements of its parched villages. It is forcibly taking over private agricultural borewells to supply drinking water. Media reports quoted officials as saying that 528 borewells have already been taken over. The government is …
a can of worms has been opened by the explosion that rocked the premises of Bhushan Steel and Strips, Sahibabad, in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad district. Ten people were killed and 15 others got wounded in the incident on September 30, 2004. The blast occurred while one of the 11 trucks …
The Caspian Sea has been rapidly losing nutrients in the north of Iran due to uncontrolled growth in the number of comb jellyfish. But finally Iran seems to have found an antidote: Beroe ovata
in the light of the recent thaw in Indo-Pak relations, both Pakistan and Iran are mounting pressure on India to agree upon the much talked about overland gas pipeline project. At the recently concluded South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (saarc) summit in Islamabad, India's Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, …
A powerful earthquake in the early hours of December 26 leaves in its trail death and destruction of unimaginable proportions in the Iranian heritage city of Bam. It has been the most devastating earthquake in the history of Iran. Two days after the killer quake struck the ancient city of …
gm on the platter: The US government has recently issued a notice to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for failing to comply with safety laws when it allowed offsprings of animals used in a genetic experiment to be sold as food. The pigs had genes from different species; the …
