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LUCKNOW: Congress leadership in Uttar Pradesh is upbeat at the prospects of clinching a deal with the Rashtriya Lok Dal led by Ajit Singh. Though the veteran Jat leader is making a hard bargain with the top Congress leadership, the party strategists at the High Command have assessed that the alliance with the RLD will be very effective for the Congress in increasing its number of seats in the Jatland, the western part of the state.

Do you like your job? How’s your health? Are you spending enough time each day with your children? When you need them, are your friends there for you? Can you trust your neighbours? And how satisfied are you, overall, with your life?

High unemployment rates, in the wake of the financial and economic crisis, have governments scrambling to create jobs. The number of long-term unemployed is increasing, with young people and low-skilled workers particularly hard hit.

New York: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon kept up his drum beat for sustainable development today, warning a high-level public-private forum in Denmark that the world must do much more than sing “Happy Birthday” when its 7 billionth citizen is born later this month.

New York: The top United Nations official on Yemen briefed the Security Council today on the “very serious” situation there amid continuing battles between supporters and opponents of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

New York: The cultivation in Afghanistan of opium poppies - the crop used to make heroin and other drugs - has increased by seven per cent this year because of continued insecurity and higher prices, a United Nations-backed survey reveals today.

New York: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) called today for an urgent increase in the efforts to combat “one of the worst ever” cholera outbreaks affecting large numbers of people across West and Central Africa.

Staff teams from the European Commission (EC), European Central Bank (ECB), and International Monetary Fund (IMF) have concluded their fifth review mission to Greece to discuss recent economic developments. The mission has reached staff-level agreement with the authorities on the economic and financial policies needed to bring the government’s economic program back on track.

New York: The United Nations health agency reported today that for the first time the number of people falling ill with tuberculosis (TB) each year is declining, but warned that current progress is at risk due to under-funding.

New York: The United Nations human rights office called on Israel today to stop attacks by settlers against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, citing a spike in violence in recent weeks resulting in serious physical injury, property loss and damage.