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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.

New York: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today laid the foundation stone of a new humanitarian logistics base in Djibouti that will serve as a vital regional hub for the UN agency.

New York: The dugong, the reputed mermaid of seafarers’ lore, was today thrown a lifeline by a United Nations pilot project that uses financial incentives to curb direct hunting or incidental by-catch of the large marine mammal amid concerns it could become extinct within 40 years.

New Delhi: On the night of 12th Mar 11, at about 2100 hrs INS Kalpeni intercepted a pirate mother vessel called Vega 5 in the Arabian sea about 600 nautical miles west of India. 13 crew members were resuced and 61 pirates have been nabbed.

New Delhi: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) has acquired the latest state-of-the-art supercomputer from Wipro which would be used for quantification and understanding of the climate uncertainties by
high resolution global and regional climate models.

This is era of scams. Hence, the involvement of Judges in corruption cases should not cause surprise. The latest such case is of a former Punjab and Haryana High Court Judge Justice Nirmal Yadav against whom the CBI filed a chargesheet under Prevention of Corruption Act on March 4, the day she retired from Uttarakhand High Court.

KOLKATA: With the Trinamool Congress (TMC), surprises never end. Even as the ruling Left Front grappled to finalise its list of candidates for the 2011 State assembly elections, the eighth since it first won in 1977, the TMC announced some high profile non political nominees for a few prestige seats.

The much-hyped South Asian University, mooted in 2005, has begun functioning from August 26, 2010 from rented premises in New Delhi on a modest scale. Fifty students from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have started studying at the University. Initially, Post Graduate Course in Development Economics and Master of Computer Applications as decided by Inter Governmental Steering Committee and approved by all SAARC Member States have commenced.

New Delhi: The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in partnership with the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs has concluded a five-day law enforcement exchange focusing on crime scene management and evidence collection techniques, according to the US Embassy sources.