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New York: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed that disaster risk reduction should be a daily concern for everyone, noting that vulnerability to catastrophes is growing faster than the world’s capacity to strengthen resilience, as evidenced by the devastation wrought by the recent series of floods, earthquakes, tsunamis and droughts.

New York: The President of the General Assembly today urged the world to dispel entrenched myths about immigration and focus on migrants’ contributions to economic development in countries of origin, transit and destination.

New Delhi: The India is slated to raise the issue of exchange of information among the countries concerned to fight against the menace of black money and terror financing. The Indian Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday left for a three-day visit to Paris to attend G-20 Finance Ministers’ and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting.

New Delhi: The mock tsunami drill, i.e. Exercise IOWave11, was successfully concluded yesterday evening. The exercise was carried between 06 30 Hrs to 18 30 Hrs IST yesterday which re-enacted the events of December 26, 2004, with a 9.2 magnitude earthquake off Northern Sumatra. During the drill, Indian Tsunami Early Warning Centre (ITEWC), based out of the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) of the Ministry of Earth Sciences generated and disseminated 15 tsunami bulletins to both its National and Regional Contacts.

Fears about the spillovers from global growth amid still high inflation pressures in much of the region mean that policymakers in Asia face a delicate balancing act, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in its latest Regional Economic Outlook (REO) for Asia and the Pacific, which was released in Asia today.

TOKYO: Low and middle-income countries in East Asia need to make their higher education systems more responsive to labor market demands and the economy as a whole to climb up the income ladder, says a new World Bank East Asia and Pacific Regional Report released today.

Despite signs of industrial slowdown, which corporates attribute mainly to successive rate increases while exercising their pricing power, the Reserve Bank of India is unlikely to make a pause in the pursuit of its primary objective of price stability, given India’s elevated inflation remaining stubborn, with no let-up in food or energy prices, in its forthcoming mid-year monetary policy review.

Is the Team Anna becoming politically overambitious? Will Anna’s call to reject the Congress in the Hisar by-poll get positive response from the public or will he soon learn that the Indian voters have a mind of their own and will not do his bidding? Only time will be able to answer these questions.

New Delhi: India and Vietnam on Wednesday signed six agreements at the official level including extradition treaty between two countries. The other pacts were in the areas of oil and natural gas, agriculture and fishery research and education and culture.

New York: Thousands of Haitians participating in a large-scale clean-up coordinated by the United Nations have removed more than 40 per cent of the 10 million cubic metres of rubble caused by last year’s earthquake.