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New Delhi: The Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad has today constituted a Task Force to evolve a long term strategy for addressing various issues faced by Indian Pharma Industry.

It has taken a long time, but the truth is finally out. L.K. Advani’s sadness on the day of the Babri masjid demolition had nothing to do with the act of desecration, but with the “dent” it caused to the BJP’s “credibility”. It was earlier suspected that his categorization of Dec 6, 1992 as the “saddest day of my life” was not a mea culpa for the destruction, but for the breakdown of saffron discipline.

Fiji faces difficult challenges to break away from its low growth of the past decade, says Executive Board of IMF in an assessment. According to its preliminary report, there are encouraging signs of recovery, but stronger, sustained growth would require a more favorable investment climate that can materialize only through continued structural reforms and the removal of administrative controls. There are a number of downside risks to the growth outlook.

New York: The United Nations independent expert on human rights in Sudan has warned that violence in the disputed territory of Abyei could derail the implementation of the peace agreement that ended the country’s civil war, despite a successful referendum that endorsed the secession of the south.

The value of world merchandise trade was 17% higher in the fourth quarter of 2010 compared to the same period of 2009, according to WTO figures released on 14 March 2011.

New York: Three United Nations agencies and the Iraqi Government today signed an agreement under which the organizations will support the implementation of development programmes in the country over the next four years at an estimated cost $600 million dollars.

New York: The governing body of a United Nations-backed treaty considered vital for the preservation and use of the world’s threatened plant genetic resources met in Bali, Indonesia, today to map out a future course in the face of food insecurity and climate change.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the third review of Greece’s economic performance under a program supported by a three-year Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) for Greece. The completion of the review enables the immediate disbursement of an amount equivalent to SDR 3.6 billion (about €4.1 billion), bringing total Fund disbursements under the SBA to an amount equivalent to SDR 12.725 billion (about €14.6 billion).

New York: The top United Nations official in Côte d’Ivoire has said he sees “promising signs” pointing to “the beginning of the end” of the crisis stemming from former president Laurent Gbagbo’s refusal to leave office despite his UN-certified defeat by opposition leader Alassane Ouattara.