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The Congress party is fighting not only to save its skin at the centre but also in some of the states. Look at the way it has to defend its two chief ministers - Sheila Dikshit and Oommen Chandy - with the opposition demanding their heads on corruption charges.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is extending a $300 million energy infrastructure loan to help Bangladesh address critical power shortages which are undermining the economy and slowing poverty reduction efforts.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Board of Governors has unanimously reelected Haruhiko Kuroda as President of ADB for a further five years beginning on 24 November 2011.

New York: Immediate action and funding are urgently needed to prevent a dramatic worsening of the educational situation in war- and drought-wracked Somalia, where some 1.8 million children are already out of school, with a knock-on effect on access to health care, the United Nations warned today.

New York: The prices of grain and milk in the drought-hit Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia have risen to record highs, exacerbating hardship for the estimated 12.4 million people in the region who are facing severe food shortages and famine in some parts of Somalia, the United Nations reported today.

New Delhi: It is the fouth night of riots in UK. It has spread to other cities in UK and the situation seems to be beyond control.

New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry inched a step forward for taking a final view on the fate of the Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and has submitted his case to the President's Secretariat for a decision.

More people die of tuberculosis (TB) in India than due to any other infectious disease – in large part because of delayed diagnosis of the disease. The early diagnosis of pulmonary TB (PTB) and extra-pulmonary TB (EPTB) in particular, is the most important step that will help in controlling the transmission of TB in the country.

KOLKATA: Does the new West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee listen to her advisers?

NEW DELHI: The leaders of the ten (10) central trade union organisations (CTUOs) who gathered in Delhi on August 5, decided to call the long-delayed National Convention on September 7. They also decided to ensure that it would be the most representative gathering of the country’s working people. Its venue is to be the spacious Mavalankar Hall in the Capital.