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New Delhi: The pride of India’s strategic arsenal, Agni II was once again launched successfully this morning at 9:30 hrs from the Wheeler Island off the coast of Orissa. The launch was a hattrick after successful launches of Shourya and Prithivi-II, on September, 24 and 26 respectively. The successful launch once again proved reliability of the Medium Range Surface-to-Surface Missile, according to the sources in the Defence Ministry.

New York: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the recently announced measures by Saudi Arabian King Abdullah granting women the right to vote and stand in municipal elections as well as to become members of the Shura Council.

New Delhi: The leaders of both Pakistan and India today were upbeat in transforming the South Asia region into a vibrant economic bloc and suggested developing relations with other blocs in the global economic geo-politics.

New York: Warning that the solution to narcotics trafficking must be global in scale, the chief United Nations anti-crime official today began a two-day official visit to Mexico, where tens of thousands of people have been murdered and mutilated in drug wars over the past five years.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the second review of Romania’s economic performance under a program supported by a 24-month Stand-By Arrangement (SBA). The authorities have indicated that they will continue treating the arrangement as precautionary and therefore do not intend to draw under it.

New York: The United Nations war crimes tribunal for Rwanda today upheld 25-year jail terms imposed on a former top military officer and a landowner for genocide in the massacres that killed some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus, often by machete or club, during a 100-day period in 1994.

New York: It is vital for countries in Asia and the Pacific to have national policies that will ensure universal access to clean and efficient energy services to advance poverty reduction and improve health and well-being, United Nations officials told a meeting in Bangkok.

New York: The United Nations marked World Maritime Day today with a warning of the high costs that piracy is imposing on the shipping industry, and a call for collective action from UN agencies, governments and military forces to combat the problem.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is extending $100 million to upgrade a key railway in Uzbekistan which will stimulate local growth and boost regional trade.

It is more than fifteen days since the Telengana region including Hyderabad is in flames but is that getting adequate coverage in the national press? While the capital is agog with the differences between two senior ministers and the Finance Ministry note on 2G, the burning Telengana issue has not received the attention it deserves. Neither the Congress President Sonia Gandhi nor Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seem to be giving the urgent attention it needs.