Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
India’s Ministry of Railways will start a 100 billion-rupee ($2.2 billion) domestic sale of tax- free bonds by September to help upgrade and expand Asia’s oldest train network. The offering will be divided between a private placement and...
Sunday, June 19th, 2011
On June 11, just three months after a massive quake of magnitude 9.1 and a mega-tsunami devastated the Tohoku-Pacific coastal areas, the Reconstruction Design Council, a government panel responsible for drawing up a blueprint for reconstruction of...
Sunday, June 19th, 2011
A $5 billion railway plan to transform Jordan into a centre for regional trade and commerce received a major boost recently when the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) announced that it is in talks with global financial institutions...
Sunday, June 19th, 2011
In his report, Tran Ngoc Them from HCM City National University said that in Khanh Hoa Province's strategic development plan, it should consider the development of marine culture as an important component, including the Truong Sa marine...
Saturday, June 18th, 2011
A delegation of the General Cartography Department of Turkey will visit Baku in July, according to Azerbaijani State Land and Cartography Committee report. "In connection with measures implied by an agreement on educational, scientific and technical cooperation in...
Saturday, June 18th, 2011
Head of Iranian Space Agency (ISA) said that Iran will launch three more satellites in space by the end of Iranian calendar year, ending on March 20, the state IRIB TV website said on Thursday. Iran, on Wednesday,...
Saturday, June 18th, 2011
In a bid to obtain data on diverse plant species in the city, the forest department's urban forestry division on Friday launched the first phase of the tree census in institutional campuses. The second phase will cover...
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
An eco-park, developed by Department of Environment and Remote Sensing (DERS) as a potential tourist attraction, was thrown open to visitors in Ganderbal district, an official spokesman said today. Spread over an area of over two acres of...
