The Azad Jammu and Kashmir government can provide 20,000 mw cheaper electricity to Pakistan to get rid of the chronic problem of load shedding of power permanently, said AJK Prime Minister Attique Ahmad Khan here on Sunday.

Rising global food prices in 2011 are likely to have greater repercussions on India

Resurgent global food prices, which averaged 10 per cent in many economies and posted record increases in the first two months of this year, may push nearly 30 million Indians and 64 million people in the Asian region into extreme poverty, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) warned on Tuesday.

In a report titled

Inflation to bog down growth, push lakhs into poverty
Rising food and fuel prices could hurt growth in India and push millions of countrymen into extreme poverty, Asian Development Bank said on Tuesday.

India will be badly affected by high food prices as a 10% increase could push close to 30 million Indians below the poverty line, said an ADB study titled

Ministerial discussions between the four countries to start tomorrow.
India is likely to extend the deadline for signing a gas sales and purchase agreement for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $40 million for "National Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) Project." In a written reply to the National Assembly, Finance Minister Hafeez Sheikh said the ADB was providing Pakistan a Multi-tranche Financing Facility for Energy Efficiency Investment Programme.

In a bid to diversify India's energy mix towards renewable sources, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide up to $150 million in credit guarantees to local and foreign commercial banks in the country that finance private sector solar power plants.

The guarantees will help mobilise long-term funding for solar energy development and support the Government of India's push to diversify its e

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide up to $150 million in credit guarantees to help India scale up use of solar power as a major renewable energy source.

The guarantees, according to an ADB statement here, will be available to local and foreign commercial banks that finance private sector solar power plants in the country and will cover 50 per cent of the payment default risk on bank

Guwahati, April 17: Dispur is expediting the signing of the $120-million loan agreement for the Assam integrated flood and riverbank erosion risk management investment programme to stop the Asian Development Bank