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U.K. court orders government to lift sanctions against Iranian bank

The U.K. Supreme Court has ordered the British government to lift the sanctions against Tehran-based Bank Mellat whose British assets had been frozen for allegedly financing Iran’s controversial nuclear programme....

June 21, 2013

Prism scandal: India among top 5 most monitored nations

As per reports in the UK newspaper, The Guardian, India is among the top 5 countries most extensively monitored by the NationalSecurity Agency (NSA), a US government agency tasked with foreign...

June 16, 2013

Global Peace Index 2013: India ranks 141 of 162 countries

The Global Peace Index (GPI) that measured peace in 162 countries ranked India at 141st position for year 2013.  To prepare the Index, 22 qualitative and quantitative indicators of...

June 15, 2013

India slashes oil import from Iran by over 26.5%

Responding to the US and European trade sanctions against Iran, India has brought down the import of crude oil from Iran by over 26.5 % in the financial...

April 29, 2013

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hits Iran, Nuclear reactor in Bushehr undamaged

A powerful of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit the border regions between Iran and Pakistan, with epicentre near the south-eastern city of Khash, close to Pakistan. It is the biggest earthquake in...

April 16, 2013

Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline

The Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline, also known as the Peace Pipeline, is a proposed 2,775-kilometer pipeline to deliver natural gas from Iran to Pakistan. Background First conceived in 1989,...

March 14, 2013

Iran test fires cruise missile "Ghader"

Iran test-fired a surface-to-surface cruise missile named “Ghader”, which means Capable in Farsi, in international waters near the Strait of Hormuz. About “Ghader”: Surface-to-surface, ground-to-ship cruise missile Range...

February 16, 2013

Iran proposes termination of all nuke arms after North Korean test

Reacting to the nuclear test of North Korea, Iran has suggested that all the world’s nuclear weapons should be destroyed. It has also said that all nations should...

February 16, 2013

Iranian President Ahmadinejad becomes first Iranian leader to visit Egypt since Islamic Revolution of 1979

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became the first Iranian leader to visit Egypt after Tehran’s 1979 Islamic revolution. He visited Egypt capital Cairo for attending the summit of the...

February 9, 2013

Iran claims to have sent monkey into space

Iran has claimed that it has successfully sent a monkey into space, boasting the launch as another step toward Tehran’s aspirations of a manned space flight. As per...

January 31, 2013

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