The world’s largest biogas plant was inaugurated on Finland’s western coast as the country seeks to cut its use of foreign coal. About the plant: 140 MW biomass...
The National Counter-Terrorism Authority (NACTA) is the primary counter-terrorism authority in Pakistan. It was established through an Act of Parliament in 2013 to act as the coordinating body...
The State Council of China has outlined new measures which include the dismantling and merging of several crucial Cabinet-level ministries with the aim of reducing the government’s role...
India and Portugal inked a Social Security Agreement (SSA). About 75,000 Indians are living in Portugal, most of them are working as professionals and self-employed. The bilateral Social...
Russia and the United States have decided to sign an agreement envisaging cooperation of the two nations on missile defence systems and not to use them against each...
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed b/w India and UK to strengthen their cooperation in Earth Sciences and environmental research by sharing information on meteorology, hydrology and...
India held that Sri Lanka would have to fix accountability for the alleged violation of human rights and torture of Tamils and assure a sustainable settlement of issues...
Robert Blake, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia in a Congressional hearing held that “any discussion of South Asia has to start with India”, and...
Regional African leaders have inked a UN-brokered accord which aims to bring peace to the troubled eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Objective: The agreement may...
Few of the world’s best-known technology tycoons, including Google co-founder Sergey Brin and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, established a $15-million annual prize to reward pioneering achievements in life...
