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New York: The United Nations refugee agency said today it is working to move refugees who have fled fighting in southern parts of Sudan and crossed over into neighbouring South Sudan away from the border and to safer areas due to security concerns.

New York: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged business leaders in the Asia and Pacific region to support the United Nations-led global effort to improve the health of women and children to create healthier communities across the world.

The WTO launched on 18 November 2011 a new discussion forum devoted to next year’s World Trade Report. The theme of the report is “Looking beyond international cooperation on tariffs”.

The WTO Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) appointed on 18 November 2011 the following two new members to the seven-member Appellate Body: Messrs Ujal Singh Bhatia of India and Thomas R. Graham of the United States for four years commencing on 11 December 2011.

New York: The United Nations human rights chief today hailed the creation of Brazil’s truth commission as an important first step towards promoting healing and investigating the violations that took place during the political repression of 1946 to 1988.

New York: Over 12,000 refugees and migrants arrived in Yemen by boat in October, the highest monthly total since the United Nations refugee agency began tracking the flow of between the Horn of Africa and Yemen nearly six years ago.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced today that the National Bank of Poland has joined the Fund’s New Arrangements to Borrow (NAB) with immediate effect. The NAB is a standing set of credit lines under which now 37 members or their institutions have committed to provide supplementary resources to the IMF totaling up to SDR 366.1 billion (about US$573 billion). The National Bank of Poland’s commitment to the NAB is SDR 2.5 billion (about US$4 billion).

New Delhi: The India-Bangladesh Joint Working Group which met here on Friday has finalised the agenda for the two-day home secretary level talks between the two countries slated to begin on Saturday.

NEW DELHI: Though India is emerging as the world’s second fastest growing economy at around 8% annual GDP, it is faced with the tough challenge of sustaining the upward trend. And at the heart of this challenge lies the power sector. Electricity demand is expected to rise at a much higher rate than ever before. In the last decade alone, electricity demand has increased at an average of 6% per annum, which places India as the world’s sixth largest electricity consumer with installed capacity of 181 GW.

There is no business like the airlines business. At least, so it would seem in India. One does not require any special qualification or expertise to be an airlines operator. One does not even need much personal money to be in this business.