Russia will provide US $ 500 million for CASA-1000 project which would provide 1000 MW to Pakistan. The offer came at a CASA-100 meeting. A meeting of the Inter Governmental Council for CASA-1000 Project was held at Dubai on May 16-17 and attended by the Ministers of Energy of four member countries including Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Tajikistan participated.

A meeting of the Inter-Governmental Council (IGC) for CASA-1000 Project was held at Dubai on May 16-17.

It was attended by the Ministers of Energy of four member countries - Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Tajikistan, says a news release received here Thursday from Dubai.

The meeting was also attended by the representatives of the World Bank, USAID, Islamic Development Bank, International Finance Corporation and other financial institutions.

In the meeting some important decisions were made.

About 28 percent of Bangladesh's total population (41.7 million) is living in urban areas, said a Unicef report released on Wednesday.
Among the top 21 mega cities of the world, according to the report, Dhaka ranks 9th position with 14.3 million people, while Tokyo 1st with 36.5 million, Delhi 2nd with 21.7 million, Sao Paolo 3rd with 20.0 million.

Health officials in Kyrgyzstan say they have diagnosed 70 new cases of HIV among children during a widespread check following a scandal over transmission of the virus in hospitals.

Russia plans to step up its international role in fighting infectious disease across eastern Europe and central Asia, in what some observers see as the latest effort by the Kremlin to reassert its political influence over its former Soviet neighbours.

The move offers prospects for extra funding to tackle HIV in a region with the fastest continued growth in HIV anywhere in the world, where infections have risen threefold over the past decade to affect 1.4m people.

In another step towards food security, Odisha has been included in the international programme for Roots & Tuber Crops (RTC) initiated by the International Potato Centre (known by its Spanish acronym CIP).

A two-day project planning meeting of the programme was inaugurated by chief secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik here on Wednesday.

A powerful earthquake killed at least 14 people in a heavily populated valley in Central Asia early on Wednesday, emergency officials said.

Almost all the casualties were in Uzbekistan, where officials confirmed 13 deaths.

The magnitude-6.1 temblor centred in Kyrgyzstan hit shortly after midnight in a mountainous area some 35 km away from the eastern Uzbek city of Ferghana, which has a popul

A powerful earthquake measuring 6.2 struck a mountainous location in southern Kyrgyzstan on the border with Uzbekistan early Wednesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

No casualties or serious damage were immediately reported from the temblor, which hit at about 1:35 a.m.

Chrysotile asbestos will not be listed as a hazardous industrial chemical that can be banned from import after countries including Canada and Ukraine blocked consensus, a United Nations spokesman said Friday.

The decision was taken at a meeting of states that have ratified the Rotterdam Convention despite the treaty's scientific review body having recommended the inclusion of "white" asbestos o

Agreement may be worked out before closure of conference India maintained silence on listing of endosufan under the Rotterdam Convention at the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, which opened in Geneva on Monday.