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When the world is gearing up ensure gender safety and security and empowerment of women, it is shocking to learn that everyday 20,000 girls below the age of 18 give birth in developing countries. There are over 600 million girls in the world today, more than 500 million of them in developing countries.

Domestic compulsions seem to be playing a big role in the neighbourhood foreign policy of both India and Sri Lanka. The CHOGM meeting to be hosted by Sri Lanka from 15 to 17 November has become a test case with a question mark about Prime Minister Manmohan Singh participating in it. Prince Charles will represent Queen Elizabeth II as the head of the Commonwealth at the Colombo meet.

New Delhi: India has alleged Pakistani forces of violating ceasefire and facilitating terrorists to cross the border.

New Delhi: A senior diplomat from Sri Lanka has questioned the Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s dilly-dallying over his decision to attend the 23rd Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) meeting in Colombo.

LUCKNOW: The successful rally of Samajwadi Party at Azamgarh has boosted the morale of rank and file and party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav who projected himself as a strong candidate for Prime minister.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Can a single stone change political fortunes within the wink of an eye as it were? If what happened to Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy in Kannur the other day, it certainly can.

Left parties in West Bengal now face a new situation: their ranks have started to join the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in significant numbers.

Hunkar rally of BJP at Patna has rattled Nitish Kumar in two ways. Firstly, a series of explosions took place during the rally and the Bihar government is facing all round criticism from almost all quarters. He is engaged in a verbal duel with Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on the issue of prior warning by the Central Government. Secondly, the Prime Ministerial candidate of BJP, Narendra Modi had made scathing attack on Nitish by calling him a traitor, liar and hypocrite. Nitish has returned the salvo in his own style by dubbing Narendra Modi a liar and a person, who has less knowledge of history.

New Delhi: India has planned to increase the speed of existing railway systems to the range of 160 to 200 km per hour by leveraging rolling stock technologies, apart from considering high speed trains of global standard with speed in the range of 250 to 300 km per hour.

On 15 October, the CBI did something unusual in the coal block allotment scam—if only under the Supreme Court’s goading. It filed a First Information Report against top industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and former coal secretary PC Parakh for illegally allotting two coal blocks in Odisha in 2005 to the Aditya Birla group-owned Hindalco Industries to generate electricity.