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New York: The number of natural hazards taking place in Europe increased significantly last year, the United Nations disaster risk reduction agency says, warning that the region’s governments need to implement prevention platforms to significantly reduce the danger they pose to their populations.

New Delhi: The Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh stressed the need maritime and coastal security and said that both internal and external policies of the country must reflect the changed global environment which has deteriorated politically and strategically in recent times.

New Delhi: 'Human–animal conflict in the densely forested Northeast India is nothing new. But the conflict has taken a very serious turn with the four-footed turning more and more violent at times beyond imagination,' said a renowned wildlife film coming soon.

New Delhi: India and Turkey are likely to renew their cultural cooperation and finalise a new programme for the year 2012-13 during the ongoing visit of the Vice President of India, Mohammad Hamid Ansari to that country.

Have the Chhattisgarh police lost all elementary sense of decency, legality, and even sanity? Has the Supreme Court judgment ordering the disbanding of the Salwa Judum militia had no effect on the state government’s obsession with crushing the Maoist movement by all means, fair or foul?

It is a quirk of fate that just when Narendra Modi geared himself up to play a larger role by emphasizing his concern for “social harmony”, perhaps for the first time in his life, he is facing a kind of police “revolt” because of the ill-treatment of Sanjiv Bhatt, the IPS officer who had engaged him in a head-on confrontation.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $97 million to help fund a new private sector hydroelectricity plant in Pakistan, which will ease power shortages and create thousands of new jobs.

New York: Scientific and financial resources are needed to counter the growing risks of droughts that all too frequently lead to famine and poverty, the United Nations said today as a conference opened in the Republic of Korea on desertification.

New York: Amid growing concerns about drought crises in some small island States of the Pacific, the United Nations today called for comprehensive risk reduction steps to be put in place to protect vulnerable populations living in delicate ecosystems.