The Alstom Foundation will support 17 projects this year spread across all continents with a particular focus on economic and social development. 

The documents provide for the procurement, design and integration of cutting-edge technologies, equipment and materials, including those replacing their foreign counterparts, for the needs of Gazprom.

All countries should join the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA) to make sure the landmark treaty aimed at cracking down on illegal fishing succeeds in its aims of ridding the world of a scourge, Director-General General José Graziano da Silva said at the OurOcean Conference in Malta.

Croatian Economy Minister Martina Dalic took part in a meeting of the Croatian-Russian commission for economic and scientific cooperation in Moscow on Tuesday, the Economy Ministry reported on its website on Wednesday.

The government on Thursday adopted a protocol which envisages connecting the oil refinery in Brod, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to the Croatian gas transport system, which would be conducive to efforts to improve the quality of air in the Croatian town Slavonski Brod.

The EIB also confirmed plans to provide a record EUR 800m for renewable energy investment across India.

This support for investment to expand the second longest urban metro system in the country is the largest ever EIB loan in India and also the largest ever support for sustainable transport outside Europe.

 China's iron ore fines prices are likely to remain under pressure through rest of this year because of environmental restrictions imposed in key steel-producing cities.

This secondary school supports two of the 54 English-medium primary schools run by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC).