Coal India has identified 476 mines for closure and mine closure plan has been prepared and approved for 445 mines till July 31, Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power, Coal, Mines and New & Renewable Energy, informed the Parliamentary Consultative Committee on Thursday.
Further, as per guidelines, ₹4,387 crore has been deposited in an escrow account by Coal India for the mine closures. The money deposited is mainly for restoration work.
“The Ministry of Coal has undertaken special plans for studying each coal mine for preparing its closure plans. In the plan, special emphasis has been placed on efficient usage of water for the purposes of drinking, irrigation after appropriate treatment and ground water recharge,” an official statement said.
In a presentation made by Coal India at the Parliamentary Consultative Committee meeting, an overview was given on the guidelines, major initiatives and activities being undertaken by Coal India and its subsidiaries under the mine closure plan.
The Parliamentary Consultative Committee members appreciated the efforts taken by the Ministry and Coal India with regard to mine closure, a statement added.
In another Parliamentary Consultative meeting on Power, Goyal informed the members that villages in Naxal affected areas and other inaccessible regions are being expeditiously connected with off-grid power solutions.
Village electrification
The Minister informed the members that according to the latest figures, 10,007 villages have been electrified in the country as on July 31 and ₹42,392 crore has been sanctioned for various rural electrification projects under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana.
MoEF told to issue hearing notice, hold consultations
Goa’s iron ore mining and exports industry is headed for another setback with the Supreme Court directing the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) to proceed afresh, issue a notice of hearing to the appellant, and hold consultations with the concerned experts, before passing appropriate orders.
It set a timeframe of three months for this process.
The order came during a hearing in Shankar Jog versus Talaulikar & Sons Pvt. Ltd case on mining lease.
The order could be of use to the Goa Foundation, enabling it to seek similar action against at least 40 of 61 lease holders who were gearing to resume mining after the monsoons, after a gap of nearly three years.
“We are studying actual implication of the Supreme court’s order. The mining lease holder will have to apply for new EC after holding a public hearing,” Claud Alvares, Director, Goa Foundation, which isfighting the legal battle against illegal mining in Goa told The Hindu on Friday.
In the Talaulikar case, the local villagers had complained about depletion in ground water levels due to mining. After the Supreme Court order, leaseholders will have to submit a fresh hydro-geological report and recommendations of a public hearing to apply for fresh environmental clearance.
The State government had renewed nearly 88 leases last year, and 61 were ready to resume mining in October with their previous environmental clearances.
The Supreme Court had first banned the mining of iron ore and exports from Goa but on May 2013 relaxed its order, allowing mining with an annual cap of 20 million tonnes.
The Goa Foundation has challenged this again in the Supreme Court.
Five Pakistanis and a Russian who were captured by the Afghan Taliban after their government helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan have been released and returned to Pakistan, the foreign ministry said on Saturday.
The Russian-made transport helicopter belonging to the Punjab provincial government was en route from Peshawar in northwest Pakistan to Uzbekistan for maintenance on Aug. 4 when it suffered a technical failure and crash-landed in a Taliban-held area of Logar province in eastern Afghanistan.
The crew's release was arranged through a handover between tribes in the border region, from where they were transferred to Islamabad by helicopter, the ministry said in a statement.
"The six member crew of Punjab government helicopter that went missing in Afghanistan on 4th August 2016 has been recovered and arrived in Islamabad today," it said.
Whereas Pakistan acknowledges that it wields some influence with the Afghan Taliban, it denies Afghan and U.S. accusations that it provides support and sanctuary for the Afghan Taliban and its leaders.
Pakistan says it has been a victim of terrorism, much of it from groups based in Afghanistan, for years.
Initial reports after the crash had indicated that there were seven passengers but Foreign Ministry spokesman Nafees Zakaria said on Saturday that it turned out there were only six on board.
One of the seven people listed on the flight manifest had been unwell and decided not to fly, a ministry official said on condition of anonymity.
(The story corrects that helicopter crashed in Taliban-held area of Logar province. Taliban do not control all of Logar province)
(Additional reporting by Saud Mehsud. Writing by Kay Johnson and Mehreen Zahra-Malik; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore and Adrian Croft)
China Exclusive: Chinese scientists a step closer to studying Einstein's confusion
Source: Xinhua 2016-08-13 10:07:41
By Xinhua writers Yang Chunxue and Yu Fei
BEIJING, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Amid the intense preparations for the launch of China's first quantum communication satellite, scientists hope it can help unravel one of the strangest phenomena in quantum physics -- quantum entanglement.
By beaming individual entangled photons between space and ground stations, the satellite should be able to test whether the quantum's entanglement property extends over the record-breaking distance.
"We have the technology to produce pairs of entangled photons on the satellite," said Pan Jianwei, academician of Chinese Academy of Science and chief scientist of Chinese quantum communication satellite project.
One photon of an entangled pair will be beamed to a station in Delingha, northwest China's Qinghai Province, and the other to a station in Lijiang, southwest China's Yunnan Province, or in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China. The distance between the two ground stations is about 1,200 kilometers.
"SPOOKY ACTION"
Quantum physics is the study of the basic building blocks of the world at a scale smaller than atoms. These tiny particles behave in a way that could overturn assumptions of how the world works.
One of the strange properties of quantum physics is that a tiny particle acts as if it's simultaneously in two locations -- a phenomenon known as "superposition." The noted interpretation is the thought experiment of Schrodinger's cat -- a scenario that presents a cat that may be simultaneously both alive and dead.
If that doesn't sound strange enough, quantum physics has another phenomenon that so confounded Albert Einstein that he described as "spooky action at a distance" in 1948.
Scientists found that when two entangled particles are separated, one particle can somehow affect the action of the far-off twin at a speed faster than light.
Scientists liken it to two pieces of paper that are distant from each other; if you write on one, the other immediately shows your message.
In the quantum entanglement theory, this bizarre connection can happen even when the two particles are separated by the galaxy.
SKY IS NOT THE LIMIT
The mystery of quantum entanglement has been puzzling scientists since it was detected.
"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics," said Richard Feynman, the late Nobel physics laureate.
Nobel Prize winner Murray Gell-Mann has described quantum mechanics as "that mysterious, confusing discipline, which none of us really understands, but which we know how to use."
Pan and other scientists desperately want to understand the mystery.
To his delight, the quantum communication satellite project he's leading might soon reveal the secret.
If you want to explore new physics, you must push the limits, Pan said in an interview with scientific journal Nature in January.
Pan believes that quantum entanglement exists over any distance in principle, but he wants to see if there's some physical limit with the help of the satellite.
"People ask if there's some sort of boundary between the classical world and the quantum world: we hope to build some sort of macroscopic system in which we can show that quantum phenomena can still exist," he said.
Pan also revealed that they also want to see if it's possible to distribute entanglement between the Earth and the Moon in future.
The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.
British Prime Minister Theresa May probably has the right idea trying to encourage a shale gas fracking industry. But she may have the wrong strategy to implement it. Instead of doling out handouts to persuade disgruntled communities there is a tangible benefit to having a gas well in their back yard, or even generous tax breaks for investors, a better policy could be to cut out the middle man and create a national energy titan to drill the first holes and share the profits.
North Sea oil in the 1970s came with similar issues to shale. Keen to secure a home-made energy supply, Britain and Norway created national oil companies, of which only one now remains. Norway’s Statoil has since bloomed into one of the world’s biggest offshore producers, while the defunct British National Oil Corporation (BNOC) was folded into Britoil and eventually sold to BP in the 1980s.
Britain has relied on the private sector since then. The government wants to offer tax breaks to investors to frack along with handouts to local communities and land owners. May said on Aug. 7 that 10 percent of taxes siphoned into a Shale Wealth Fund could be given directly to households affected by drilling. Neither tax breaks nor handouts offer many long-term benefits.
Even with these payments and subsidies shale gas extraction may not be that profitable for companies that do the fracking. Although deliveries from overseas are up by about a quarter since 2008, prices over the same period have actually fallen. Wholesale prices for same-day delivery gas have halved in value to around 31 pence per thermal unit over the same period even as production has fallen. In any case, technically recoverable reserves may be just a fifth of those in the United States, according to estimates from the Energy Information Administration.
All that makes it hard to justify fracking based on normal market forces. That could make luring private sector participants prohibitively expensive. Look at the controversy over a planned nuclear plant at Hinkley Point, where the UK government has had to offer exorbitant prices to French energy group EDF. Given the challenges, a better strategy to get Britain fracking could be to reprise BNOC, take the risk and reward through the public purse. That way if there is a profitable future for shale, the benefit can be more widely spread instead of just the risk.
Photo taken by cellphone on Aug. 11, 2016 shows the explosion site at a power plant in Dangyang, central China's Hubei Province. At least 21 people were killed and five others were injured, three seriously, after a pipeline explosion hit a power plant in central China's Hubei Province Thursday afternoon, local authorities said. (Xinhua)
YICHANG, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- At least 21 people were killed and five others injured, three seriously, after a pipe explosion hit a power plant in central China's Hubei Province Thursday, local authorities said.
A high-pressure steam pipe exploded at the Madian Gangue Power Generation Co. Ltd. in Dangyang City around 3:20 p.m.. The injured have been rushed to hospital, according to local authorities.
The cause of the blast was not immediately known.
Rescue efforts are underway.
MUZAFFARABAD, July 22 (APP: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Friday vowed to bring about a revolution of development in Azad Jammu and Kashmir where his party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz was set to form government by getting clean sweep victory in the election of the AJK Legislative Assembly.
Addressing a public gathering here at University Ground, the
prime minister thanked the AJK people for supporting the party to win 32 seats out of 41 of the Legislative Assembly through direct elections by rejecting what the prime minister termed as `culture of negative politics.’
Minister for Defence Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Minister for
Information and Broadcasting Pervaiz Rashid, Minister for Kashmir Affairs Barjis Tahir and Special Assistant to PM Asif Kirmani accompanied the prime minister who was received by the PML-N leader Raja Farooq Haider along with other party leaders in the AJK capital.
Prime Minister Sharif arrived here the very next day of his
arrival in Islamabad after his recovery from the open heart surgery in London.
Nawaz Sharif said the AJK people have defeated the mainstream leaders of the opposition parties referring to the defeat of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Barrister Sultan by his party’s Chaudhry Saeed.
He also laughed off the much-hyped mass movement announced by the PTI against his government saying one could guess as what would be the scale of that movement.
“They will launch the movement only to the size of what they got in AJK general election – just two seats and PML-N got 32,” the prime minister said with a smiling face.
Nawaz Sharif assured the charged gathering that the next five years would be exemplary for the development of AJK. The PML- N’s would-be government is going to develop a network of motorways and highways besides spending huge amounts on education and health sectors.
The prime minister also appreciated his team for successful
electioneering in AJK including Pervaiz Rashid, Asif Kirmani,
Barjis Tahir, Raja Farooq Haider and local party leaders though he was unable to take part for being in London for his open heart surgery.
He said the opposition parties heavily criticized him during
the election campaign but he did not respond to anyone.
“Performance, not sit-ins bring about success in politics.
Thanks God, we are setting a new record of development in Pakistan that is being evidenced by the world. Pakistan has joined the emerging markets,” the prime minister remarked.
Amid the slogans of `dekho dekho kon aya- sher aya sher aya’,`Mian de naaray wajjan ge’ and others, Prime Minister Sharif said by giving PML-N two-third majority, the AJK people had pleased him and he could not stop visiting them the very next day of the election.
He said the development being witnessed in Pakistan would now change the fate of AJK as a new era of progress was about to herald there.
The prime minister also thanked the activists of Muslim
Students Federation, the youth wing of his party for their dedicated efforts to help the party win a thumping victory in the election.
He assured the newly elected MLAs that all of their
commitments, they had made with their electorates, would be fulfilled.
Nawaz Sharif said he never discriminated between Pakistan and AJK and recalled that the PML-N had recently obtained two-third majority in the elections of the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly.
He said the AJK people had been faced with massive corruption and malfunctioning in the past and the results of this election was reaction to those malpractice.
“It will not happen again. Every penny will be accounted for.
I myself will oversee (the spending),” the prime minister assured.
However, the prime minister said at this moment of
celebration, we should not forget the oppressed people of Indian Occupied Kashmir who had been sacrificing their lives for their freedom.
“No one can deter their movement. This will meet success. They are being killed. We are awaiting their prayers to be fulfilled and for the day when Kashmir will become Pakistan,” the prime minister said.
He said people of Pakistan were with their brethren of
Occupied Kashmir and would never give up their support.
He also concluded his speech by raising a slogan `Freedom
movement of Occupied Kashmir’ that was responded by the people by saying `long live’.
Prime Minister Sharif said his government would expand his
government’s health scheme currently from Muzaffarabad to throughout AJK which ensures free health treatment to the poor people.
In his address, President of PML-N’s AJK Chapter Raja Farooq Haider thanked the AJK people and hoped that the AJK would achieve progress under the leadership of Prime Minister Sharif.
Noreen Arif, the female MLA-elect said the Nawaz Sharif’s
government had introduced several projects for uplift of the youth and requested him to launch such projects in AJK as well.
Amid the slogans of `dekho dekho kon aya- sher aya sher aya’, `Mian de naaray wajjan ge’ and others, Prime Minister Sharif said by giving PML-N two-third majority, the AJK people had pleased him and he could not stop visiting them the very next day of the election.
He said the development being witnessed in Pakistan would now change the fate of AJK as a new era of progress was about to herald there.
The prime minister also thanked the activists of Muslim
Students Federation, the youth wing of his party for their dedicated efforts to help the party win a thumping victory in the election.
He assured the newly elected MLAs that all of their
commitments, they had made with their electorates, would be fulfilled.
Nawaz Sharif said he never discriminated between Pakistan and AJK and recalled that the PML-N had recently obtained two-third majority in the elections of the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly.
He said the AJK people had been faced with massive corruption and malfunctioning in the past and the results of this election was reaction to those malpractice.
“It will not happen again. Every penny will be accounted for.
I myself will oversee (the spending),” the prime minister assured.
However, the prime minister said at this moment of
celebration, we should not forget the oppressed people of Indian Occupied Kashmir who had been sacrificing their lives for their freedom.
“No one can deter their movement. This will meet success. They are being killed. We are awaiting their prayers to be fulfilled and for the day when Kashmir will become Pakistan,” the prime minister said.
He said people of Pakistan were with their brethren of
Occupied Kashmir and would never give up their support.
He also concluded his speech by raising a slogan `Freedom
movement of Occupied Kashmir’ that was responded by the people by saying `long live’.
Prime Minister Sharif said his government would expand his
government’s health scheme currently from Muzaffarabad to throughout AJK which ensures free health treatment to the poor people.
In his address, President of PML-N’s AJK Chapter Raja Farooq Haider thanked the AJK people and hoped that the AJK would achieve progress under the leadership of Prime Minister Sharif.
Noreen Arif, the female MLA-elect said the Nawaz Sharif’s
government had introduced several projects for uplift of the youth and requested him to launch such projects in AJK as well.
Later, the prime minister mixed up with the residents of
Muzaffarabad who shook hand with him. They chanted slogans in his support and the prime minister waved to respond their sentiments.
A look at 46 year parliamentary trail of AJK LA
AJK elections 2016: 427 in the run for 41 seats
By Muhammad Aslam & M. Shafique Raja
MUZAFFARABAD, July 17 (APP): The parliamentary system in Azad Jammu and Kashmir is going to get further maturity as people of the State are all set to exercise their right to vote on July 21 and elect their representatives for the 10th democratic tenure of the 49 seat Legislative Assembly in almost 46 years since 1970.
The first AJK government, established on October 24, 1947 was working like a ‘war council’ under the Rules of Business to run the administration of the state, with all executive and legislative authority vested in the president.
The democratic setup was introduced in 1970 under the
presidential system on the basis of adult franchise when Sardar Mohammad Abdul Qayyum Khan took over the charge of first elected President as head of the government and state as well.
For the first time, the AJK people and the refugees of Jammu
and Kashmir settled in Pakistan exercised their right to vote and elected the Legislative Assembly, consisted of 24 members and one co opted lady member, and the president, which worked for four years, according to the official data available with APP.
Later in 1974, some major constitutional changes were made when the interim constitution Act, 1974, was adopted and Parliamentary system of democracy was introduced in the state.
The first elected Assembly completed its tenure and approved 56 bills mostly pertaining to religious matters and public importance, besides passing several resolutions for welfare of the public.
The second Assembly came into existence in 1975 under the
Interim Constitution Act, 1974, which has undergone 11 amendments so far. For the first time in the history of AJK Parliamentary system was introduced and Prime Minister, as the executive head of the state, was elected by majority votes of the assembly. Khan Abdul Hameed Khan was elected as first Prime Minister of AJK and Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan as President. The Assembly consisted of 42 members, among them 40 members were elected by the people of AJK and refugees settled in Pakistan, and two co opted ladies members.
The Assembly worked for two years and was suspended in August 1977, due to the enforcement of Martial Law in Pakistan.
This house, in a short span of two years, worked diligently
and showed tremendous results by approving 51 bills and passed the resolutions on Kashmir issue and on many other matters concerning the public.
On dissolution of the Assembly, Brigadier Muhammad Hayat Khan was appointed as Chief Executive on October 31, 1978, who remained in office up to January 31, 1983 with all the exclusive powers.
Later, Maj. General ® Abdul Rehman was appointed as
President/ Chief Executive on February 1, 1983 and continued till September 30, 1985.
The democratic system remained suspended up to 1985, when the Martial Law was lifted and civil setup was established in Pakistan.
Following which, the elections for AJK LA were held and Sardar Sikander Hayat Khan took over the charge as the Prime Minister and Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan as the President of the state.
This Assembly was elected for five years and worked till 1990.
During the given mandated democratic term, it approved 109 bills and passed resolutions on various subjects. The constitution was amended and six more seats of the assembly were approved. It contained 48 members out of which 40 members were elected and 8 seats were reserved for the members elected by the assembly. Five seats were reserved forladies, one for technocrats, one for Overseas Kashmiris and one for Ulema and Mashaikh.
The elections for fourth Assembly were held in 1990. Raja
Mumtaz Hussain Rathore was elected as Prime Minister while Sardar Mohammad Abdul Qayyum Khan elected as the President.
The government remained in power only for one year because the then Prime Minister dissolved the assembly, which could not make any legislation except passing resolutions on various subjects including the Kashmir issue.
The fifth assembly took birth 1991. Sardar Muhammad Abdul
Qayyum Khan was elected as the Prime Minister and Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan as the President. This Assembly completed its five year tenure, during which the legislators worked tremendously and approved 145 bills and passed the resolutions on Kashmir and other matters of public importance.
During the period, many delegations of different countries,
especially America, Britain and other European countries visited Azad Kashmir.
Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry and Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan became the prime minister and president, respectively as a result of the general elections held in 1996.
The AJK LA approved 44 bills and passed many resolutions about Kashmir issue and other public concerning matters.
The seventh Assembly came into being on July 5, 2001, and
elected Sardar Sikander Hayat Khan as Prime Minister and Maj. General ® Sardar Mohammad Anwar Khan as President by the joint sitting of the assembly and council.
This assembly approved 78 bills and has the honour of having been addressed (joint sessions of Assembly and Council) by the President and the Prime Minister of Pakistan on various occasions. The house made amendment in the constitution and approved one more seat, bringing the total number of legislatures from 48 to 49.
The general election for Eighth Assembly were held on July 11, 2006 , which elected Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan as the Prime Minister and Raja Zulqarnain Khan as the President.
During this tenure, people of AJK witnessed several but rare
in house changes for the prime minister, as from January 7, 2009 to October 22, 2009 Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan was elected as the prime minister, from October 23, 2009 to July 29, 2010 Raja Muhammad Farooq Haider Khan remained the prime minister and then again Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan was elected as the prime minister from July 29, 2010 to July 6, 2011.
The general elections for the ninth and current outgoing
assembly were held on June 26, 2011, following which Chaudhry Abdul Majeed was elected the Prime Minister and Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan as President.
Now, the people of Kashmir are going to elect their
representatives for the 10th assembly on July 21. Tough contest is expected among AJK’s major political parties, including Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML N), Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf Azad Kashmir All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference coalition.
As many as 427 candidates, belonging to various political
parties as well as independent ones are in the run for the upcoming AJK Legislative Assembly elections.
According to the final list issued by the AJK Election
Commission 328 contestants will be vying from 29 constituencies of AJK’s nine districts, while 99 will be competing from 12 constituencies of Kashmiri refugees, spread over four provinces of Pakistan.
Iran crude steel production rises up by 11.3 pc in June: WSA
Tehran, July 23, IRNA – Iran crude steel production in June was 1.590 million tons up by 11.3 percent compared to the preceding period, Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization (IMIDRO) said on Saturday citing report of the World Steel Association (WSA).
While world production average in first half of the year 2016 decreased around two percent, crude steel production in Iran rose up by 5.2 percent and reached 8.806 million tons, according to WSA report.
According to the WSA, amount of crude steel production in 66 countries in the first half of the year in comparison with the same period of preceding year amounted to 794.800 million tons down by 1.9 percent.
In the Middle East, production of crude steel stood by 13.823 million tons in the first six months of 2016 down by 3.2 percent in comparison with the same period of past year.
Crude steel production in European Union was 82.745 million tons in the same period, down by 6.1 percent compared with preceding year.
Crude steel production in Asia stood by 545.661 million tons down by one percent in this period.
Iran upon its vision plan 1404 is to increase its production to 55 million tons. It is currently producing half of the amount.
IMIDRO announced that total export of steel in past year was more than 4.100 million tons. It is regarded as a record over the past 50 years.
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Indian director: India has adopted a lot from Iranian culture
New Delhi, July 23, IRNA - An Indian movie director believes that there are many similarities between the Iranian and Indian cultures and India has adopted a lot from the Iranian one.
In an exclusive interview with IRNA here on the recent Iranian Film Festival in New Delhi, Sanjay Mitwa said, “India and Iran enjoy strong bilateral relations since many centuries and India has adopted a lot from the Iranian culture, especially on the handcrafts.”
On his experience about the Iranian films, he said, “It was my first chance to attend an Iranian Films Festival. Being a true artist & director, it was a great moment for me to interact with Iranian artists & people. I found close similarity between the Iranian and Indian cultures.”
“So, movies presenting these connections will be hit in both Iran and India and will help the people from both the countries to know more about each other.” Added the seasoned expert of the Indian film industry Bollywood.
Terming movie and music as the strongest means for strengthening the ties between different nations, Mitwa said, “Art and culture including movie and music are not limited to a particular boundary. These have their own languages which are being understood by everybody in every country. Art and culture have always played important roles in strengthening of relations among the nations all over the world.”
Wishing to produce a joint Iran-India movie, he said, “I will love to direct & produce a joint Iran-India movie so that the people of the two great countries can understand each other better.”
Terming the recent Iranian Film Festival in New Delhi to mark the 60th anniversary of establishment of the cultural relations between Iran and India as a golden opportunity for the interaction between the artists from both the countries, Mitwa said, “the four-day event provided a golden platform for the artists as well as the art-loving people from both Iran and India to share their rich experiences on movies and cultures.”
“To continue this trend, the Indian government shall organize an Indian film and cultural festival in Iran so that the exchange of art and culture between the two can keep flowing.” He added.
Advisor to President: Iran is much patient, Saudis will come for talks
Tehran, July 23, IRNA – In response to anti-Iran remarks made by Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, Deputy Chief of Staff for Political Affairs Hamid Aboutalebi said on Saturday that Iran is much patient, the Saudis will come for talks.
'It will take time for you to come to your knees and running out of oil revenues,' Aboutalebi said in his Twitter account.
He said that the heavy cost of supporting terrorism, extremism and massacre will finally make Saudi rulers yield under financial pressure.
''Relations between your fathers and Iran used to be friendly for three decades. When the children become ministers, first of all, they criticize their fathers. This is megalomania.'
'We are much patient until the heavy cost of the Saudi regional interventions gets you to a critical situation,' Aboutalebi said. 'You will come for talks.'
YEKATERINBURG, July 22. / TASS /. Russian archaeologists have discovered human remains from the elongated skull, lived about 2 thousand. Years ago, during excavations at one of the cemeteries in the reserve "Arch" in the Chelyabinsk region. This was reported by the correspondent of TASS head of the museum reserve Maria Makurova Team.
"In one of the mounds, archaeologists have cleared the grave pit detected human skeleton buried This skull also has an elongated shape is most likely a woman who lived about 1800-2000 thousand years ago....", - Said the agency interlocutor.
According to her, in the future anthropologists are engaged in the study of the remains to establish the exact age and gender. "The mound is also an iron knife were found ceramic whorl (used in spinning - TASS approx.), Small beads and fragments of ceramic jug, form which is unable to recover," - added Makurova Team.
Last year, in the territory of a burial ground II-III century AD, archaeologists have found well-preserved skeleton of a nomad with elongated skull and the remains of two men. All of them belong to the late Sarmatian - an ancient tribe that roamed the territory of modern Ukraine, Kazakhstan and southern Russia, whose representatives are deliberately pulled his skull to create a distinctive feature of the tribe. When the buried were also found iron sword, a dagger, ceramic pots, jug, knife, buckle, and wooden products.
Arch - a fortified settlement of the Bronze Age, discovered in 1987 in the south of the Chelyabinsk region in the construction of the reservoir.The settlement was created four thousand years ago, at a pre-thought-out plan, with a clear idea of urban planning, sophisticated architecture.It belongs to metallurgy, weaving, pottery, animal husbandry.
In 1991, the territory of the Arkaim valley decision of the RSFSR Council of Ministers, as well as 15 other surrounding areas with archaeological sites of ancient culture declared natural reserves. Here, historical and cultural reserve "Arch" was created, which is a subdivision of the Ministry of Culture of the Chelyabinsk region and carries out the museum, security, scientific and tourist activities.
Zadeh said he should not be waiting for the arrival of what he described as enemies to his country's borders, but must pursue them where they are, describing the fighting in Syria Palmtouhhan creature of the United States and Israel.
He said the defenders of religious shrines have made a significant change in theSyrian army , pointing out that Syria 's secular army and was formerly prevents the establishment of prayer in the camps did not fire any bullets toward Israel, he said.
It is noteworthy that Iran has incurred huge losses in the military leadership to fight them alongside the Syrian regime. Estimates indicate the deaths of nearly three hundred Iranian military in Syria since October / October last through what it calls confrontations with "Takfiri groups during their defense of religious shrines."
The advertising and media in Iran almost daily deaths of members of the armed forces and the Revolutionary Guard and the popular mobilization ( Basij ) in different parts of Syria, and the Syrian armed opposition confirms the presence ofIranian fighters on all the fronts.
In early May / May last, the Iranian news agency reported that the parliament passed a law allowing the government to grant citizenship to the families of foreigners who fought "for the benefit of the country", which means that the possibility of entry into force of this law on the fight in favor of Iran in Syria and Iraq.
