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If Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wanted to insult the people of Southern Tamil Nadu and Kerala who are agitating against the Koodankulam nuclear power station, he could have found no better way of doing so than by agreeing to meet their six-member civil society delegation on October 7—only to unleash Department of Atomic Energy secretary Srikumar Banerjee upon them to lecture them on the virtues of nuclear power.

Anna Hazare must have realized by now that it is easier to start a movement than to sustain it. Even if his team was not such a motley group as it is, the Gandhian might have found it difficult to retain the initial momentum. For one, a democracy allows so much of free space to both supporters and opponents of a cause that neither is able to completely out-argue the other. For another, a movement targeting virtually the entire political class and even the system itself requires a level of intellectual sophistication which was absent in the team.

New Delhi: In the backdrop of the bitter experiences faced recently by the Indian students at the California-based Tri Valley University and closure of the London Campus of TASMAC School of Business, India has sought US collaboration for access to hassle-free quality higher education.

New York: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged Syrian President Bashar-Al Assad to take decisive action and accept the Human Rights Council’s commission of inquiry into the violence in his country to find out exactly what happened and to put an end to civilian deaths.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team visited Ouagadougou during September 29–October 14, 2011 to carry out discussions with the Burkinabè authorities on the third review of their economic and financial program supported by the IMF under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF); and on the 2011 Article IV consultation.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, headed by Therese Turner-Jones visited Barbados from October 3-14 for the 2011 Article IV discussions.

Swiss residents currently enjoy easy access to a wide range of health care services and a vast array of choice in insurers and health care providers.

New York: The United Nations and international figures marked World Food Day today with calls for immediate aid and longer-term solutions, and warnings of factors that keep hundreds of millions mired in hunger, such as price swings and gender discrimination.

The Japanese government has increased its assistance to private sector projects in Africa through a concessional, or ‘soft’, loan of JPY 8,440 billion, or approximately USD 100 million, to the African Development Bank (AFDB).

New York: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today reiterated his call for the leaders of the world’s biggest economies to restore public confidence in the global economic system, saying that mass protests in numerous cities around the world are the result of frustrations with inequality.