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The impact of the conflict on Libya’s economy will have significant ramifications on the country’s political and economic reconstruction, according to a new economic brief from the African Development Bank (AfDB).

New York: The United Nations refugee agency has opened a new camp in western Ethiopia as hostilities in Sudan’s Blue Nile state continue to drive thousands to flee the country.

New York: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first female elected head of State; Leymah Gbowee, a Liberian peace activist; and Tawakkul Karman, a pro-democracy activist from Yemen are the joint winners of this year’s prize.

New York: The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today that several large measles outbreaks have continued to spread in the past six months in Europe and Africa, and to a lesser degree in the Americas.

New York: The United Nations refugee agency and Rwanda today announced steps to speed up a solution for tens of thousands of Rwandan refugees, one of the lasting legacies of the genocide in which extremist Hutus killed some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the African country in 1994.

New York: In an era of rapid technological advancements, the post remains a vital communication element that links people and businesses and contributes to their economic development worldwide, the United Nations global postal agency says.

New Delhi: Indian Air Force’s 15-member Motorsport Team ‘Sky Hawkz’ was flagged off by Air Marshal J N Burma, Air Officer-in-charge of administration(AOA), to participate in the International Car Rally - 13th Raid-de-Himalayas, the highest rally raid in the world.

New Delhi: The draft National Policy on Information Technology (IT) aims to increase revenues of IT and ITES industry from the existing $88 billion to $300 billion by 2020.

Even as the Maoists’ offer of a month-long ‘ceasefire’ has been on the expected lines, fear of dark terror and daylight killings of Trinamool leaders and other suspected ‘police informers’, or those held ‘guilty’ by kangaroo courts, stalks Jangalmahal spread across the three districts of West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia. For obvious reasons, the offer has evoked only a lukewarm response from the State administration.

The political crisis into which UPA-II has worked itself, as if in a self-destructive mode, by its failures on a wide front, topped by a series of corruption scandals rocking the country, would appear logically to call for a mid-term poll for a major cleansing operation. Yet, with all its belligerent outbursts, the BJP, seemingly resurgent, is hardly in a position to force a snap poll because of its own internal tussles and quite a few skeletons of graft in cupboard in states run by the party.