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The global community and the world bodies like the United Nations time and again underline the need to focus on urgent national and international steps to be taken for ensuring education for the girl child. Hundreds of millions of young children, mostly girls, throughout the world are often deprived of education along with other essential needs like adequate food, clothing and health care. Going by these yardsticks, the development of a Nation is truly measured by many indicators and among them literacy levels especially of women and girl children are vital.

DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today signed a trade finance agreement with Tojiksodirotbonk OJSC that is expected to help exporters and importers in Tajikistan conduct more international business.

KOLKATA: Bangladesh authorities are working out a new system of fees to be levied on heavy equipment moving from India for dispatch to Tripura through its territory, according to reports in Dhaka-based Media. This comes in addition to the existing system of fees, as the bulk movement of goods became a reality, following an agreement signed between the two countries on November 30.

KOLKATA: The CPI(M) leaders and some of their allies of ruling Left Front in West Bengal such as the CPI have of late been inculcating a notional perception about signs of turnaround in favour of LF ending the pervading despair among the rank and file of LF after the debacle in the 15th parliamentary elections in 2009. One of the hidden reasons for this optimism is delimitation of constituencies. The Opposition, mainly the AITC, criticized the delimitation alleging that the recast constituencies were aimed against those seats, held by the party.

The Congress-led UPA Government, barely nineteen months in its second term, finds itself in an appalling state, not only lacking inherent strength or internal coherence but also slipping into a drift with its failure to provide credible governance and enforce probity in administration. For UPA-II, the crisis has long been in the making.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Pacific Island economies have benefited from the gradual recovery in the world economy and the firm Australian economy, but fiscal conditions in some Pacific economies remain a concern, according to the latest edition of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Pacific Economic Monitor.

Uruguay’s economic growth performance during the last seven years has been impressive, capping a remarkable recovery from the country’s crisis in 2002. Domestic and external factors have contributed to this economic result, not least years of consistent implementation of prudent policies and major reforms.

New Delhi: India and China are partners in economic progress and co-operation, and the two countries can gain substantially by leveraging on each other’s strengths, accotding to the visiting Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao.

At the request of the Netherlands authorities a Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) team led by the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the IMF has visited the Netherlands between November 29 and December 14, 2010 in order to conduct an update of the Fund’s 2004 assessment of the soundness and stability of the Netherlands financial sector. It has been the practice that such assessments are undertaken roughly every seven years.

New York: The number of refugees entering Liberia from Côte d’Ivoire, which has been thrust into political uncertainty after the incumbent president refused to concede electoral defeat, has risen to about 3,500 with scores of people arriving every day in Liberian villages along the border, the United Nations refugees agency said today.