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New Delhi: With the US strategy in Afghanistan hitting serious roadblocks with its sharply deteriorating relations with Pakistan, a trilateral mechanism between the US, Australia and India can help prevent the Taliban from regaining control, suggest three prominent global think tanks in joint paper.

LUCKNOW: Former chief minister and leader of Jan Kranti Party Kalyan Singh is also set to damage BJP in 2012 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. Kalyan Singh has rejected all offers to rejoin BJP facing leadership crisis in the state and announced that he would aggressively campaign against BJP and it top leadership. Significantly enough Kalyan Singh had ruled any alliance with BJP or any other party pre, during or post polls.

Ominous stars are eyeing the BJP in the north-western region states. The infighting has deepened the crisis in the party’s Himachal Pradesh and Punjab units where elections are due in 2012 -Punjab in February and Himachal later in the year. In Jammu and Kashmir the BJP stands split which was caused by the revolt of seven of its 11 legislators in April last.

It is a curious coincidence that just as the government has begun addressing the various problems which have been agitating the public mind, the Anna camp has started losing ground in public esteem. While the government has decided to introduce bills debarring people with a criminal background from contesting, ensuring that citizens’ grievances are readily addressed and protecting whistle-blowers, Anna Hazare wants retired judges to probe allegations into its core committee members.

WASHINGTON — Françoise Clottes, World Bank Director for the Caribbean, Giorgio Valentini, World Bank Country Representative for Suriname, and Kirk Ifill, Representative of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, will begin today a three-day visit to Suriname to renew the Bank’s commitment to the country’s development efforts. After 30 years of limited dialogue, Suriname and the World Bank Group are currently working on a gradual re-engagement strategy and exploring how the organization’s global knowledge and expertise can best support the government.

New York: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Brazilian Government today launched a new initiative to help countries run their own national school meal programmes to advance the nutrition and education of children.

Staff teams from the European Commission (EC) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) visited Bucharest from October 25 until November 7 for the regular review of Romania’s economic program. The objectives of the program are to solidify economic growth while maintaining macroeconomic and financial stability.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, led by Mr. Peter Allum, visited Dar es Salaam during October 26–November 7, 2011 to conduct discussions for the third review under the Policy Support Instrument (PSI). The mission met with Finance Minister Mkulo, Bank of Tanzania Governor Ndulu, and other senior officials, as well as representatives of the private sector, civil society, and development partners.

Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), today called on Russia and emerging Europe to strengthen policies to guard against rising risks in the global economy.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is lending $170 million to build a new power plant in Thailand that will provide clean, affordable electricity to help meet the country’s increasing demand for supply.