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New York: In an era of rapid technological advancements, the post remains a vital communication element that links people and businesses and contributes to their economic development worldwide, the United Nations global postal agency says.

New Delhi: Indian Air Force’s 15-member Motorsport Team ‘Sky Hawkz’ was flagged off by Air Marshal J N Burma, Air Officer-in-charge of administration(AOA), to participate in the International Car Rally - 13th Raid-de-Himalayas, the highest rally raid in the world.

New Delhi: The draft National Policy on Information Technology (IT) aims to increase revenues of IT and ITES industry from the existing $88 billion to $300 billion by 2020.

Even as the Maoists’ offer of a month-long ‘ceasefire’ has been on the expected lines, fear of dark terror and daylight killings of Trinamool leaders and other suspected ‘police informers’, or those held ‘guilty’ by kangaroo courts, stalks Jangalmahal spread across the three districts of West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia. For obvious reasons, the offer has evoked only a lukewarm response from the State administration.

The political crisis into which UPA-II has worked itself, as if in a self-destructive mode, by its failures on a wide front, topped by a series of corruption scandals rocking the country, would appear logically to call for a mid-term poll for a major cleansing operation. Yet, with all its belligerent outbursts, the BJP, seemingly resurgent, is hardly in a position to force a snap poll because of its own internal tussles and quite a few skeletons of graft in cupboard in states run by the party.

Executive Directors of International Monetary Fund (IMF) have noted that although recent global market volatility has increased uncertainty about the economic outlook and tilted risks downward, strong commodity demand from emerging Asia underpins Australia’s favorable economic prospects.

New York: Successful water projects can serve as templates around the world and help to stimulate the adoption of green economies, a conference run by the United Nations inter-agency group focused on water issues has heard.

New York: Africa’s overall progress towards achieving the internationally agreed targets to eradicate extreme poverty and accelerate social development has been slow and generally insufficient to meet the 2015 deadline, the United Nations says in a new report unveiled today, noting, however, that there have been small gains.

New York: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is distributing emergency supplies and has dispatched experts to the Central African Republic (CAR) to deal with an outbreak of cholera that has already claimed 14 lives.

New York: South Sudan has become the newest member of the United Nations Universal Postal Union (UPU), the agency announced today.