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New York: The United Nations health agency reported today that for the first time the number of people falling ill with tuberculosis (TB) each year is declining, but warned that current progress is at risk due to under-funding.

New York: The United Nations human rights office called on Israel today to stop attacks by settlers against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, citing a spike in violence in recent weeks resulting in serious physical injury, property loss and damage.

New York: The number of natural hazards taking place in Europe increased significantly last year, the United Nations disaster risk reduction agency says, warning that the region’s governments need to implement prevention platforms to significantly reduce the danger they pose to their populations.

New Delhi: The Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh stressed the need maritime and coastal security and said that both internal and external policies of the country must reflect the changed global environment which has deteriorated politically and strategically in recent times.

New Delhi: 'Human–animal conflict in the densely forested Northeast India is nothing new. But the conflict has taken a very serious turn with the four-footed turning more and more violent at times beyond imagination,' said a renowned wildlife film coming soon.

New Delhi: India and Turkey are likely to renew their cultural cooperation and finalise a new programme for the year 2012-13 during the ongoing visit of the Vice President of India, Mohammad Hamid Ansari to that country.

Have the Chhattisgarh police lost all elementary sense of decency, legality, and even sanity? Has the Supreme Court judgment ordering the disbanding of the Salwa Judum militia had no effect on the state government’s obsession with crushing the Maoist movement by all means, fair or foul?

It is a quirk of fate that just when Narendra Modi geared himself up to play a larger role by emphasizing his concern for “social harmony”, perhaps for the first time in his life, he is facing a kind of police “revolt” because of the ill-treatment of Sanjiv Bhatt, the IPS officer who had engaged him in a head-on confrontation.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $97 million to help fund a new private sector hydroelectricity plant in Pakistan, which will ease power shortages and create thousands of new jobs.