This paper presents a status report of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) on two crucial development parameters—inequality and poverty—that have a significant bearing on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs; especially SDG-1 and SDG-10). The paper tracks the origins and movements of absolute and relative poverty, …
GALABOVO, Bulgaria: An energy crisis brews as potential hydropower is largely misused While Russia and Ukraine sparred over natural gas supplies in January, leaving swathes of Eastern and Central Europe shivering in the winter chill, another energy crisis was brewing in the Balkans. This increasingly chronic power shortage was not …
The collapse of the Soviet Union had diverse consequences, not least the abandonment of crop cultivation in many areas. One result has been the vast accumulation of soil organic carbon in the areas affected.
Russia launched its $22bn liquefied natural gas project on the Pacific island of Sakhalin yesterday, opening a big new front to supply energy to Asia and on to North America as the Kremlin seeks to diversify energy markets from Europe. The inauguration of the Sakhalin-2 project comes after years of …
Cape Canaveral/Moscow: After the first high-speed impact between two intact satellites, a spokesman for Russian civilian space agency Roscosmos, Alexander Vorobyev, said,
A Russia-Ukraine stand-off over gas price results in a stoppage of Russian gas supply to Europe. The New Year sprang a nasty surprise on Europeans. As severe frosts gripped the continent, at least 20 countries had their natural gas supplies cut in the wake of a row between Russia and …
NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday finalised two agreements with Russia for purchase of large quantities of uranium. The Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) placed orders for 2,000 tonnes of uranium for its various Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs) with Russia
Former Russian satellites in eastern Europe are hit hardest of all TALK emptily of diversifying supplies while doing little and relying instead on cosy ties with the Russian gas business. That has been the common energy policy in much of eastern Europe in recent years. The row between Ukraine and …
This guideline provides a set of priority principles on fire management, which is an essential component of sustainable forest management. Fire management is the discipline of using fire to achieve land management and traditional use objectives, together with the safeguarding of life, property, and resources through the prevention, detection, control, …
After the historic moon mission, India will redesign Russian space capsule Soyuz to send its astronauts on the country's maiden manned space mission. "We will be redesigning the Soyuz space capsule of the Russian agency for our mission," said Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chairman G Madhavan Nair. Isro signed …
Sandeep Dikshit NEW DELHI: India and Russia on Friday signed agreements that would eliminate the supply-demand mismatch in uranium and enable the setting up of more state-of-the-art nuclear power plants in India. At a summit meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev put the final touches on …
India and Russia signed the long-pending nuclear cooperation agreement for construction of four additional nuclear reactors at Kudankulam and reactors in other new sites in India. The cooperation agreement, signed by Russian state corporation, Rosatom, director-general Sergei Kiriyenko and department of atomic energy chief Anil Kakodkar, will govern bilateral civilian …
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
In our study we investigated two polluted rivers of Eurasia from silicate and carbonate regions. We revealed an algal diversity consisting of 184 algal species and cyanoprokaryotes in the Rudnaya River, and 175 in the Qishon River. The distributions of species over the 7 higher taxa were very similar for …
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck off Russia's Far-East coast on Monday triggering a tsunami warning which was soon lifted, Russian emergency services said. The earthquake struck at a depth of just over 300 km beneath the Sea of Okhotsk at 9.05 p.m. (0905 GMT) between the Kamchatka peninsula and the …
India and Russia will sign the nuclear agreement for four additional reactors at Kudankulam when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visits India in the first week of December. Confirming this on Monday, foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon said,
