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New York: A United Nations-backed scheme that delivers vital immunizations to those who need them the most announced today that it will provide funding for 37 more developing countries to introduce vaccines against the two leading causes of death among children – diarrhoea and pneumonia.

New York: Some 1.1 million children with disabilities in Central and Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union are hidden away at home or in institutions, the United Nations reported today, calling on States that have not yet done so to sign a UN treaty guaranteeing their social inclusion.

New Delhi: Dream of the country’s first indigenous effort to build a carrier borne Naval Fighter aircraft got a fillip with the crossing of another significant milestone of the first Engine Ground Run (EGR) in Bangalore on Monday of first LCA(Navy) prototype NP1, according to the sources in the Defence Ministry.

New York: More than one million lives could be saved each year if cities around the world adhered to United Nations guidelines on air pollution from cars and factories that can cause heart disease, lung cancer, asthma, and acute lower respiratory infections, according to a new UN report.

New York: Five more countries have joined a United Nations-backed list of States committed to release hundreds of thousands of child soldiers and others recruited by armed groups worldwide, end the practice and reintegrate them into society, bringing the total to 100.

New York: An equitable distribution of resources and greater political participation could ease some of the discontent that many young people feel across the world and prevent popular uprisings such as those seen in North Africa and the Middle East, Trinidad and Tobago has told the United Nations.

New Delhi: India has planned to protect its 7500 km long coastline and its far-flung island territories by a network of radars

A database launched today by the Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative, a joint program of the World Bank Group and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) shows that stolen money of proceeds from corruption deposited in foreign banks can be returned to the country of origin if the country concerned wants to recover them.

Tourism is recognized as a powerful engine for economic growth and employment generation. The tourism sector is the largest service industry in the country, its importance lies in being an instrument for economic development and employment generation, particularly in the remote parts of the country.

Through his contrived sadbhavana mission and outlandish three-day fast, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Milosevic Modi staged a grotesquely fraudulent act in ugly political theatre, which he hoped would catapult him to the apex of the Bharatiya Janata Party and make him the topmost contender as the Prime Ministerial nominee of the National Democratic Alliance. But besides consolidating his image as a Hindutva hriday samrat, Mr Modi’s manoeuvres may achieve little. Yet they will inflict a heavy burden on the BJP by isolating it from its potential allies.