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New York: Health ministers from around the world meeting under the auspices of the United Nations today adopted measures to strengthen the fight against the non-communicable diseases, including the promotion of healthy lifestyles and encouraging a multi-sectoral approach to prevention and treatment of the illnesses.

New York: The United Nations refugee agency today voiced alarm at worsening insecurity in Somalia, which has forced 50,000 people out of the country in the first three months of this year, more than double the number of refugees who fled the Horn of Africa nation during a similar period in 2010.

WTO ambassadors endorsed on 29 April 2011 Director-General Pascal Lamy’s plan to consult delegations in Geneva and ministers around the world in the search for a different way of achieving a breakthrough in the Doha Development Agenda negotiations. They were clear about what they do not want and said they are open to ideas.

New York: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for a speedy, effective and mutually acceptable resolution of the long-running dispute between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia over the latter country’s name, saying he was encouraged by recent steps taken by the two sides.

A high-level workshop hosted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA), and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in Yerevan on April 27, and in Tshakhkadzor on April 28–29, considered ways to improve monetary policy tools and central bank instruments in support of implementation of a modern monetary framework of inflation targeting (IT). Strengthened IT regimes—which include clear and consistent policy objectives and robust central bank operational independence, communications, and accountability—can help better anchor expectations about future inflation and contribute to dedollarization, stronger local currency markets, reduced uncertainty, and less severe boom-bust cycles.

New York: Marking the annual <I>Remembrance Day for All Victims of Chemical Warfare</I>, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the world to build on progress so far made towards the complete elimination of chemical weapons and to promote the international convention banning their use and stockpiling.

WTO ambassadors endorsed on 29 April 2011 Director-General Pascal Lamy’s plan to consult delegations in Geneva and ministers around the world in the search for a different way of achieving a breakthrough in the Doha Development Agenda negotiations. They were clear about what they do not want and said they are open to ideas.

New York:UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on Nepal’s political parties to set aside their differences and show maximum flexibility during negotiations over the next month to reach agreement on the contents of a new constitution before the imminent deadline.

Building of mansion of BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – has been remarkable without too much fuss but with great significance for peaceful global order in which national states develop without interference by the self-styled sole super power and its NATO allies. It is a remarkable achievement. Its impact has been already felt in the on-going military intrusions in Arab countries and also in other developing countries. In addition it is going to review the functioning of the global financial institutions in favour of equity and the rights of nation states.

The resounding English victory in the battle of Plassey in 1757 raised the British Empire’s dream to colonize the Indian sub-continent and rule it from Bengal, the richest Indian province. Within years, it built Calcutta as its first colonial capital, planned and designed somewhat on the lines of London. The river Hooghly by Calcutta too was redesigned and looked more majestic than London’s Thames river.