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Dhanpati Sapkota, an award winning farmer, won a cash prize of Rs. 1.5 lakhs in a vegetable growing competition during the International Flower Festival at Gangtok.

KOLKATA: Truly, these are torrid times for the Bengal Left and its confusion has been confounded by the latest outrage committed by its overzealous cadres at Netai village, Lalgarh.

LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati has taken a big lead over her political rivals in the state in respect of making preparations for the assembly polls in 2012. She has taken major steps in finalising candidates.

TIRANA ― World Bank Managing Director Ms. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala today completed her three-day visit to Albania, as part of her first trip to some Western Balkans countries. The aim of the visit was to emphasize the importance of Albania’s new Growth Agenda as well as reiterate the Bank’s support to the Government under the new Country Partnership Strategy. In addition, Ms. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala expressed the Bank’s solidarity with people affected by the recent massive floods in Shkodra area, and discussed possibilities for additional support to mitigate the risks of future floods.

WASHINGTON — The World Bank Board of Directors (WB) approved a US$40 million loan today for the Social Macro Projects Program in Colombia, seeking to facilitate low income populations’ access to housing with all basic services and infrastructure.

Iceland must do more to ensure its law enforcement authorities are coordinated and adequately resourced to investigate and prosecute economic and financial crime, including foreign bribery, says the OECD in a new report.

WASHINGTON – The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved a package designed to help Armenia protect the poor and support greater human capital development, and also strengthen competitiveness and private sector development. The Second Development Policy Operation (DPO) for Armenia, a loan of US$ 25 million, is the second in a series of three operations designed to support the Government of Armenia in meeting its strategic objectives.

New York: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a donation of $196.6 million from Japan, the largest-ever single contribution to the agency, which will use it to provide essential food and nutritional assistance to millions of needy people in 20 countries in Africa and Asia.

Executive Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) commended the Rwandan authorities for satisfactory implementation of the economic program supported under the PSI. Countercyclical fiscal and monetary policies helped to mitigate the impact of the global economic downturn and contributed to a rebound in economic activity. Directors noted that the recovery remains fragile.

New York: On the eve of the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake that killed 220,000 Haitians and made 1.5 million others homeless, United Nations humanitarian agencies today looked back at a year of achievements, albeit at times spotty, and forward to the enormous challenges still ahead.