View Articles

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.

Executive Directors of International Monetary Fund (IMF) have noted that although recent global market volatility has increased uncertainty about the economic outlook and tilted risks downward, strong commodity demand from emerging Asia underpins Australia’s favorable economic prospects.

New York: Successful water projects can serve as templates around the world and help to stimulate the adoption of green economies, a conference run by the United Nations inter-agency group focused on water issues has heard.

New York: Africa’s overall progress towards achieving the internationally agreed targets to eradicate extreme poverty and accelerate social development has been slow and generally insufficient to meet the 2015 deadline, the United Nations says in a new report unveiled today, noting, however, that there have been small gains.

New York: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is distributing emergency supplies and has dispatched experts to the Central African Republic (CAR) to deal with an outbreak of cholera that has already claimed 14 lives.

New York: South Sudan has become the newest member of the United Nations Universal Postal Union (UPU), the agency announced today.

WASHINGTON - In a global economy that depends on sophisticated innovation and knowledge to drive growth and wealth, a new World Bank report on higher education suggests that low- and middle-income countries should resist the temptation to establish world-class universities to cash in on research earnings and court global prestige before educating their own citizens to high tertiary standards.

New York: More than 20 nations will participate next week in a full-scale exercise to test a United Nations-backed early warning system which will re-enact the events of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.