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An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Mr. Christopher Lane, visited Liberia March 28–April 8, 2011 to conduct discussions for the sixth review under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) and a request from the Liberian authorities to extend support for their economic program until the end of 2011.

A team from the International Monetary Fund led by Ms. Ratna Sahay, Deputy Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department, visited Cairo April 3-10 at the invitation of the authorities.

New York: The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Cote d’Ivoire today confirmed that the country’s former president Laurent Gbagbo has surrendered to forces loyal to President-elect Alassane Ouattara and is currently in their custody.

In total, 45 specific trade concerns were raised, including 16 new ones, at a meeting of the Technical Barriers to Trade Committee on 24-25 March 2011. Tobacco regulations to protect public health continued to be a central concern. While members were not challenging public health objectives, they argued that the design of such regulations could have an unnecessary negative impact on trade.

New York: Online child abuse is growing rapidly as more people gain access to the Internet, a top United Nations official warned today, calling for concerted global action to combat one of the most common forms of cybercrime.

A mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), led by Mr. Christoph Rosenberg, held discussions with the Hungarian authorities during April 4-11, 2011 as part of the regular Post-Program Monitoring consultation process. The team worked in close cooperation with a parallel mission from the European Commission.

New Delhi: Mr B Muthuraman, Vice Chairman, Tata Steel Limited & Chairman, Tata International Ltd has been elected as the President of CII for the year 2011-12. He succeeds Mr Hari Bhartia as the new President.

For the first time since the world economic crisis erupted in 2008, IMF has more caution for robust emerging economies, the growth driving engine for global recovery –as 'new macro-economic risks” are building, such as over-heating, rise in food and commodity prices, especially oil, credit booms, and geo-political uncertainties. This has a clear message for India, which is among emerging market economies where a tightening of macro-economic policies is needed, it says in its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO).

Himachal Pradesh’s relatively prolonged political cold weather, like its prolonged 2011-2012 winter is virtually over. The dawning of its summer is marked more by governance than political issues generating heated discussions during the state Assembly’s budget session which concluded on April 8.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Forecasting the outcome of an election is an hazardous exercise at the best of times. It is all the more so in a no-holds-barred election, which Kerala is witnessing.