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 state TV says a magnitude 5.5 earthquake has killed one person and injured 12 in a small town in the country's south. The report says the quake struck early on Thursday morning in the town of Bastak, about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) south of the capital, Tehran. It says …
South Asia is looking at an energy abyss. Millions of its people have no access to electricity or any other energy. This has put the brakes on the high growth rates in what should have been a dynamic region. High dependence on petroleum import coupled with mismanagement of their energy …
Feasibility studies for the multi-billion-dollar conducted Iran is focusing on exporting natural gas to India along a deep-sea route — the move coinciding with the cancellation of a loan to Islamabad to build the Pakistani section of the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline and the signing of the Geneva nuclear accord that …
An earthquake measuring 5.4 in magnitude struck western Iran near its border with Iraq on Friday morning, Iranian media reported. There are no details on the extent of the damage, but several relief teams have been dispatched to assess the situation, state news agency IRNA reported. The epicenter of the …
An Iranian newspaper says more than 50 people were hospitalized in a southern city where air pollution levels spiked this week. Tuesday's report by the pro-reform Arman daily quotes the head of provincial health department, Mohammad Hossein Sarmast, as saying that at least 5,000 people rushed to the city hospitals …
The Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline will bring an economic disaster in the country as the gas imported from Iran would be more expensive. Therefore, the government should negotiate the gas rate and delink it from oil prices. These were the findings of a report titled ‘Rethinking Pakistan’s Energy Equation: Iran-Pakistan Gas …
Wildlife experts hail success of UN-backed initiative to protect Asiatic cheetahs from extinction despite sanctions Asiatic cheetahs, a subspecies of the fastest animal on earth, are extinct everywhere except in Iran, where they are considered to be critically endangered. But marking a rare success, conservationists at the Persian wildlife heritage …
Some 500 families who were long deprived of electricity in the remote villages of the Nunggaha Yaya, Gurumada Mw, Omalpe Medawathugoda, Galkandagoda, Vijeriya Udagama, Nandanagama and Ginigalgoda areas, in the Ratnapura district, benefited last week from an Iranian-funded rural electrification scheme. The project under an Iranian RE-8 loan facility was …
Freedom on the Net 2013 is the fourth report in a series of comprehensive studies of internet freedom around the globe and covers developments in 60 countries that occurred between May 2012 and April 2013. Over 60 researchers, nearly all based in the countries they analyzed, contributed to the project …
Seeks answers from Petroleum Ministry on IPI, TAPI and India-Bangladesh-Myanmar gas pipeline. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has sought answers from the Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry over the inadequate progress made in execution of transnational pipeline projects including the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline, the TAPI gas pipeline and the …
Though Godzilla isn't listed as a threat, Tokyo has the dubious distinction of being the world's most vulnerable city when it comes to natural disasters, according to a report released Wednesday by reinsurance firm Swiss Re. "When we look at river flood, storm surge, tsunami, wind storm and earthquake combined, …
Sri Lanka has obtained a state of the art tunnel boring machine for the construction of the Uma Oya project, Irrigation and Water Resources Management Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva says, The minister said machine would be used to bore a long tunnel to divert the Uma Oya water. He …
Environmental Protection Agency Sindh will process the Environmental Impact Assessment Report of Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline in Sindh for its approval by Expert Committee after its go-ahead made at Public Hearing meeting which was held at a local hotel here. Giving his concluding remarks, Director General EPA Sindh Naeem Ahmed …
Indian basmati meant for exports is blended with a small percentage of non basmati long grain varieties. Now complaints are mounting that this blending of low quality non basmati in the basmati varieties, being exported to Iran, has gone beyond the industry norm of 20 per cent. This heavy adulteration …
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday said that new energy policy which is to be announced soon would turn out to be the panacea for the country’s energy problems. “People and economy have suffered badly at the hands of crippling power crisis. It is high time that prudent and consistent …
The government has finalised a national energy policy to increase electricity generation to 26,800MW, reduce average electricity rates by more than 30 per cent, achieve zero loadshedding, encourage huge public and private investment and import electricity from India, Iran and Central Asian states in three years. The policy would be …
40 feared dead in Iran, 20 in Pakistan; shockwaves felt in North India Pakistan, specifically Balochistan, appears to have borne the brunt of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked the Iranian border province of Sistan-Baluchestan on Tuesday afternoon. While Pakistan confirmed the death of at least 20 people following the …
A powerful earthquake struck a border area of southeast Iran Tuesday killing at least 35 people in neighbouring Pakistan, destroying hundreds of houses and shaking buildings as far away as India and Gulf Arab states. Communications with the sparsely-populated desert and mountain region were largely cut off, making it difficult …
A major 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Iran near the border with Pakistan on Tuesday and tremors were felt in India and Gulf states. The US. Geological Survey said the quake hit at 10:44 GMTat a depth of 15.2 km (9.4 miles). The epicenter was in southeast Iran in an area …
India is unwilling to impose restrictions on its oil imports from Iran and will continue its energy ties with Tehran as long as it gets a “good deal” and logistic support, even as one national insurance company has stepped in to provide reinsurance for oil imports from Iran, staving a …
