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New Delhi: Geodynamic ally active and ecologically sensitive Himalaya; apart from having the inherent environmental problems of natural occurrence such as, earthquakes, landslides, soil erosion and flash floods; is confronted with a range of other problems of anthropogenic origin.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Fresh revelations in the palmolein and ice cream parlour cases have sent the already besieged the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Government in Kerala into a political tizzy.

It is said that when in danger people lose their mental balance. Cornered over a series of massive corruption charges followed by an Anna onslaught, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in Delhi seems to have reached its wits’ end. It is using police power to suppress public dissent, abusing anti-corruption crusaders and making irrelevant statements to confuse the public.

New York: Europe will retain its status as a polio-free region after Member States took satisfactory steps to combat an imported outbreak of the debilitating and sometimes fatal disease last year, in what the United Nations health agency hailed as “tremendous news.”

New York: Marshlands in Iraq must be managed in a manner that balances the various benefits derived from the ecosystems, including food and clean water for the country’s people, as well as climate control, according to a United Nations report released today.

New York: The recent serious escalation of violence in southern Israel and the Gaza Strip makes it ever more urgent to break the deadlock in the Middle East peace talks, the top United Nations political official warned today.

New York: An annual investment of $198 billion, or 0.16 per cent of global gross domestic product (GDP), in the water sector could reduce water scarcity and halve the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation in less than four years, the United Nations said today.

New Delhi: The chief of the ruling UPA Coalition and the Congress party president Sonia Gandhi is rated as the seventh most powerful woman of the world in the Forbes list which is topped by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

New York: African leaders convened a fund-raising conference today for famine-wracked Somalia, where tens of thousands of people have already died and 3.2 million are on the brink of starvation, with a top United Nations official warning that the crisis stretches far beyond hunger to issues of health, protection and livelihood.

New Delhi: India, among other countries, are invited by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to attend an international conference on Libya scheduled to be hosted in Paris next week. The meeting will discuss the future of the North African nation after the collapse of the Muammar Gaddafi regime.