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New York: A United Nations expert panel today warned of an alarming resurgence of the use of mercenaries in armed conflict, and called for regulating private military and security companies, whose activities raise numerous human rights challenges.

New York: A group of United Nations experts today voiced grave concern over reports of severe human rights restrictions on Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in China’s Sichuan province, including intimidation, security raids and surveillance of the sites and religious activities.

India, after finally pushing the world population to the 7-billion mark and gaining the privilege of being second in the population race, has said that the route to climate sustainable human population lies in removal of barriers to use of family planning policies.

New York: The Security Council has called on interim authorities in Libya to take action to prevent the proliferation of arms, missiles and related materiel, warning of the danger they pose to the newly liberated North African country and the wider region.

WASHINGTON – Global food prices remain high and volatile, hitting the poorest countries hardest and adding to the strains facing the global economy, according to the World Bank Group’s new Food Price Watch released ahead of the G-20 Summit in Cannes, France. While the Bank’s food price index has dropped 5 percent from its February 2011 peak and dipped marginally in September by one percent, it remains 19 percent above its September 2010 levels.

New Delhi: India is eager to have bilateral cooperation with Italy in defence technology, heavy industries and trade in machinery and equipment so that it becomes a win-win situation for both.

New Delhi: Top fighter for the cause of protection of Indian languages, Rajkaran Singh in no more. He died of cardiac arrest on October 30th at his home at Barabanki in Uttar Pradesh. He was 57. It is a great loss of the cause of regional languages in India.

New Delhi: New envoys from 11 countries presented their credentials to the President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI: With the joining of the USA and Russia at the East Asia Summit (EAS) at Bali in Indonesia in the middle of November, the regional grouping of the Asian countries will get a new dimension influencing the geo-politics in the Asia-Pacific. Energy will be a major area of discussion at the Bali summit since the Russia, the largest producer of oil in the world, will be participating and all the big countries including USA and China are engaged in expanding the area of operations for stepping up the production of oil as also ensuring ready imports.

It may be a coincidence that at a time when the government has shown signs of making a renewed attempt to control the media, it has appointed a person who evidently has a very poor opinion of scribes and can be of considerable help in shackling them. The government’s unhappiness with the media has undoubtedly been accentuated by the wide coverage of the anti-corruption movement. Hence, the proposal to set up a committee to regulate the media, which was dropped following protests.