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KOLKATA: Organisational weaknesses and lukewarm popular support to opposition-sponsored agitational programmes continue to plague the Left front in West Bengal.

LUCKNOW: Fight for crucial Muslim votes that constitute more then 18 per cent of total population in Uttar Pradesh has been intensified in view of assembly polls in the state in 2012.The first initiative has been taken by former RSS chief K C Sudarshan who visited Lucknow recently to meet Shia Muslim cleric Kalbe S.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Coastal communities in remote areas of the Coral Triangle in Indonesia and the Philippines will receive Asian Development Bank (ADB) support to start small, green businesses that will help preserve one of the most diverse and threatened marine environments in the world.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing emergency humanitarian assistance of $3 million to work with the Cambodian government to help meet some of its most critical needs in the wake of the country’s worst flooding in over a decade.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide approximately $465 million to support the construction of a 440-megawatt hydropower plant that will supply power to energy-hungry Thailand and provide much-needed revenue to fund poverty reduction programs in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR).

HANOI, VIETNAM – Project Predator, an initiative to protect and save the world’s last surviving wild tigers, was unveiled today at the 80th INTERPOL General Assembly, a gathering of global law enforcement support from the organization’s 190 member countries.

New York: Norway, Australia and the Netherlands lead this year’s newly released Human Development Index (HDI) rankings, the annual United Nations measure of progress in human well-being, while the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Niger and Burundi are at the bottom.

New York: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the agreement reached among Nepal’s political parties on resolving the outstanding issues related to the integration and rehabilitation of Maoist combatants and the drafting of a new constitution.

New York: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge today visited the global supply centre in Copenhagen for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), where they highlighted the plight of hundreds of thousands of children who may starve to death in the Horn of Africa without urgent help.

New York: The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today voiced regret over the decision by the United States to withhold its dues to the agency, saying that reduced funding will affect its ability to implement crucial programmes in education, support for emerging democracies and the fight against extremism.