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Believe it or not, a strong American connection is about to bring destruction of the powerful Marxist party, CPM, in West Bengal in the on-going assembly election. The CPM ruled the country’s most populous eastern state uninterruptedly for 34 years, since 1977, with the support of a few other small Left parties. The CPM and its allies are facing defeat at the hands of Trinamool Congress (TMC) and its election allies, Congress Party and radical Socialist Unity Centre (SUC).

Even as the polls are peacefully completed in Tamil Nadu, the temperature in the Congress party is rising high in view of its internal squabbles. Hardly has the din in elections subsided, internal fights and groupism in the local Congress are assuming a feverish pitch.

New York: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for the deepening of ties between the United Nations and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to combat transnational crime, including the trafficking of drugs and human beings, as well as terrorism.

New York: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today praised the strong partnership between Russia and the United Nations at a meeting with the country''s President Dmitry Medvedev and called for even greater cooperation on global governance issues, including climate change and sustainable development.

New York: While most countries have managed to stamp out bird flu, eliminating the virus from poultry in the six countries where it remains endemic will take at least 10 years, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says in a new report.

New York: The United Nations health agency is urging European countries to work more closely together to combat measles – which is entirely preventable – after a surge in the number of cases across the continent since the start of the year.

New York: The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Côte d’Ivoire today deplored the ongoing fighting in neighbourhoods of the commercial capital, Abidjan, warning that the clashes could threaten efforts to restore peace and security following the recent post-electoral crisis.

New York: The world must dramatically step up its existing efforts to conquer malaria if it is to reach the goal of near zero deaths from the disease – which, despite being preventable and curable, currently kills almost 800,000 people every year – by 2015, the United Nations warns today.

New York: The United Nations political affairs chief today voiced concern over the continuing deadlock in peace talks aimed at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and urged both parities to make bold and decisive steps to end the stalemate and to avoid violence and provocative actions that could undermine political efforts.

LUCKNOW: Communist Part of India (CPI) will launch state-wide agitation against Mayawati government from May to focus on large scale corruption and anti-people policies as also deterioration in law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh.