Middle Orient

TEHRAN (FNA)- Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), India’s top explorer, was in talks to develop oil and gas fields in Iran but a definitive agreement was still some way off, the company’s chairman said on Thursday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- India, Asia’s third-largest oil consumer, plans to resume talks with Pakistan over a pipeline to transport natural gas from Iran, New Delhi’s Oil Minister Murli Deora said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- On the evening of March 19, the promise of a unique seminar drew throngs of students and professors into a packed lecture hall at Prague’s University of Economics to get first-hand information about Iran’s nuclear plans.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini blasted Thursday the US occupying forces’ recent act of fingerprinting and imposing restrictions on the Iranian pilgrims on Iran-Iraq borders.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has lodged a bid to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) that comprises Russia, China and the four ex-Soviet Central Asian states, Tehran’s foreign minister said on Monday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s ambassador to Beirut held talks with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The bus service between Pakistan and Iran will commence from April 22 when the first bus will leave from Quetta for Mashhad.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran is apparently no more satisfied with its observer status in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), and it hopes to become a full member.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran will host biggest gathering of world’s tour operators.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s ambassador to Beirut held talks with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora on Tuesday.