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New York: More than 12,000 cases of dengue fever and 125 deaths linked to the disease have been reported across Pakistan so far this year, with the majority occurring in Punjab province, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said today.

At the eleventh meeting of the Working Party on Serbia’s accession, Members supported an early accession of Serbia and welcomed its progress in the implementation of new legislation to comply with WTO rules.

New Delhi: India and Switzerland are likely to sign agreements on renewable energy, energy efficiency and vocational education. India would like to harness Swiss technologies in these sectors and also invite Swiss manufacturing companies to set up their base in India for exports to third countries.

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party state president Akhilesh Yadav is getting good response during his third phase of Samajwadi Kranti Rath Yatra which started from Lucknow on September 28.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will invest $750 million for power transmission systems that will help India efficiently transfer electricity to regions where the need is greatest, spurring growth and poverty reduction.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing loans of up to $350 million for transmission system upgrades to help the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh take greater advantage of its vast hydropower resources.

KOLKATA: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s reluctance to take hard decisions and her determination to stick to a populist path may well lead to a major financial crisis in West Bengal shortly.

The world may yet to see capitalism’s worst hour of crisis, but with its epicenter, the USA, continuously producing one after another aftershock since the 2008 sub-prime catastrophe followed by a series of bank collapse, it may be a matter of time before other major economies and non-oil- exporting countries face a severe jolt.

New Delhi: The Indian Defence Minister AK Antony today asked senior defence finance officials of his Ministry to consider the satisfaction level of ex-servicemen (ESM) pensioners as the benchmark of their performance.

New Delhi: India-Russia defence cooperation is slated to take off to a new trajectory in the days to come.