PM Modi to fly to Afghanistan for Salma Dams inaugural
The Dollar Business Bureau Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to fly to Afghanistan on Saturday to hold talks with President Ashraf Ghani and inaugurate the Afghan-India friendship dam, which was formerly known as the Salma dam. Modi, during his five-nation official tour, will also visit Qatar, Switzerland, USA and Mexico. Around 1,500 Indian and Afghani engineers worked hard in the completion of the project. The dam, whose worth is over $2 billion is located to the west of Herat near the Iranian border. It is one of the two major projects that India had an agreement inked with Afghanistan. The meet between the PM and Afghan president will also be an opportunity to discuss the crisis faced by Afghanisthan. The two leaders may ...
Afghanistan keen on energy collaborations with India
The Dollar Business Bureau Afghanistan has invited Indian companies to explore business opportunities expressing willingness for collaborations with India in the renewable energy sector. “With industrialization and development, environment was under pressure, hence, there is aneed to utilize renewables to produce energy which will eventually fuel the industry,” said Ali AhmadOsmani, Minister of Energy and Water, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The minister led a business delegation to take part in the ‘India-Afghanistan Renewable Energy Summit which was organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), Afghanistan Ministry of Energy and Water and Afghanistan Renewable Energy Union (AREU), the Indian Embassy in Kabul and UASID, Afghanistan, in New Delhi on Thursday. Addressing the summit, he said that Afghanistan ...
