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At the meeting of the Committee on Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs) on 3 October 2011, some members raised questions about certain investment measures by India, Indonesia and Nigeria. It also carried out its final annual review of China’s implementation of its commitments under the TRIMs Agreement.

New York: The United Nations has launched a pilot programme that uses mobile telephone technology to facilitate cash transfers to help thousands of poor people that were badly affected by the post-election crisis in Côte d’Ivoire to buy food.

New York: The United Nations human rights office today voiced deep concern about the anti-Roma demonstrations and accompanying hate speech that have been occurring in Bulgaria, and called on authorities to combat discrimination and protect minority groups.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is extending $200 million to aid Indonesia’s push to develop strong regional governments which can boost growth and cut poverty at the local level.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing fresh support to help the Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) build up small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in a bid to broaden sources of growth in the national economy.

The United Progressive Alliance government has scandalised the public by repeatedly stating before the Supreme Court that it cannot commit itself to providing enough food to the Indian people at affordable prices. Its latest affidavit, filed through the Planning Commission, says that the per capita urban poverty line estimated by an expert committee headed by the late Suresh Tendulkar is Rs 32 a day at current prices; it’s Rs 26 a day for the rural areas. The Central government can at maximum provide subsidised foodgrains to those below this income through the Public Distribution System.

LUCKNOW: The Bharatiya Janata Party is vertically split over the issue of post poll alliance with the BSP in the event of a hung assembly. Though officially the BJP national executive has taken a decision not to have any truck with BSP before or after the polls, sources in the state BJP say that the option for post poll understanding is still not totally closed.

How distant the aftermath of the Congress’s 2009 victory seems today. The party had then passed the 200-seat mark in the Lok Sabha while the BJP had dropped from 138 to 116. Moreover, since the Left had been decimated, it was believed that there would be no further roadblocks in the government’s pursuit of the economic reforms.

New York: Thirty-two women leaders from 16 West African countries are meeting in Senegal today to attend a series of United Nations-backed training sessions aiming to boost the participation of female mediators in peace processes across the region.

New York: Two former government ministers in Rwanda have been convicted by a United Nations war crimes tribunal and each sentenced to 30 years in prison for their roles in the genocide that engulfed the small African nation in 1994.