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New York: Concerted and rapid action is urgently needed to curb resource depletion and ensure human activities do not destroy the very environment that supports economies and sustains life, warned a United Nations report released today, which tracks the environmental changes the planet has gone through over the past 20 years.

New York: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today he is confident that a comprehensive settlement to the Cyprus issue can be reached, following progress made during two days of talks with the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders in New York.

New York: A United Nations expert panel today warned of an alarming resurgence of the use of mercenaries in armed conflict, and called for regulating private military and security companies, whose activities raise numerous human rights challenges.

New York: A group of United Nations experts today voiced grave concern over reports of severe human rights restrictions on Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in China’s Sichuan province, including intimidation, security raids and surveillance of the sites and religious activities.

India, after finally pushing the world population to the 7-billion mark and gaining the privilege of being second in the population race, has said that the route to climate sustainable human population lies in removal of barriers to use of family planning policies.

New York: The Security Council has called on interim authorities in Libya to take action to prevent the proliferation of arms, missiles and related materiel, warning of the danger they pose to the newly liberated North African country and the wider region.

WASHINGTON – Global food prices remain high and volatile, hitting the poorest countries hardest and adding to the strains facing the global economy, according to the World Bank Group’s new Food Price Watch released ahead of the G-20 Summit in Cannes, France. While the Bank’s food price index has dropped 5 percent from its February 2011 peak and dipped marginally in September by one percent, it remains 19 percent above its September 2010 levels.

New Delhi: India is eager to have bilateral cooperation with Italy in defence technology, heavy industries and trade in machinery and equipment so that it becomes a win-win situation for both.

New Delhi: Top fighter for the cause of protection of Indian languages, Rajkaran Singh in no more. He died of cardiac arrest on October 30th at his home at Barabanki in Uttar Pradesh. He was 57. It is a great loss of the cause of regional languages in India.

New Delhi: New envoys from 11 countries presented their credentials to the President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday.