ISLAMABAD: A massive earthquake of 7.3 magnitude shook Balochistan and some parts of Sindh and Punjab at 1.23 a.m. on Wednesday, raising the spectre of the devastating 2005 quake in
Leading private and state-run steel firms including Tata Group, Essar and SAIL are among the 14 Indian companies that have shown interest in developing the Hajigak mines in Afghanistan.
For the first time rivals in the domestic market, steel giants Sail, Tata, Essar, RINL and the Jindal Group, are coming together to jointly bid for iron ore assets and to explore building a steel plant in war-torn Afghanistan.
At a meeting today, the Mines Ministry promised the steel producers
The history of development of natural resources in Afghanistan has been fraught with international intrigue for several centuries. At the present time a future in Afghanistan without a continuation of multinational competition does not look likely, although the stakes may seem to have increased.
Afghanistan Human Development Report 2011 - The Forgotten Front: Water Security and the Crisis in Sanitation examines the deep and persistent deprivation in access to drinking water, sanitation and irrigation in Afghanistan, as well as the r
HOPING TO bring about a green revolution in their country after the years of turmoil and war, Afghanistan farmers and agriexperts are looking forward to working with their Indian counterparts and making use of Indian technology.
DUBAI: The long-awaited Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan- India (TAPI) gas pipeline project is heading for a breakthrough during a proposed four nation summit at Ashgabat in Turkmenistan next month, a senior Afghan Minister has said.
Afghanistan's Minister of Mines Wahidullah Shahrani told The Hindu on the sidelines of a major investment conference on Afghanistan in Dubai that th
Report reveals the need to reach target levels of coverage for life-saving interventions
India has the highest number of pneumonia-related deaths in the world
Only three countries reported coverage above the target level of 90 per cent for any vaccine
NEW DELHI: Pneumonia, which is the world's leading infectious killer among children, claims the lives of nearly 1.6 million children under five
