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Who says India does not have national pride? Sitting in the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium on Sunday evening I was witness to this nationalism at the opening ceremony of the CWG when the spectators gave a standing ovation to the Indian contingent as they marched past. The stadium with its high tech lighting and beautiful decorations has dazzled the western media so much that they hailed, “India has arrived.” The British media which was critical before the event was gaga after the opening ceremony while the Canadian media called it “pitch perfect”.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is launching its second video competition which is open to all aspiring filmmakers across the globe.

A halting global recovery may run into a fresh bout of financial market instability due to lingering weaknesses of the banking system and the sovereign debt crisis in the euro zone, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned in its latest World Economic Outlook. Though emerging out of recession in mid-2009, advanced economies are on a sluggish pace of recovery, and have several challenges to overcome to achieve sustained healthy growth.

India and Russia will jointly produce Fifth Generation Aircraft (FGA) at an estimated investment of about $ 25 billion. The production partners would be Sukhoy from the Russian side and HAL from the Indian side. Within a span of next 10 years, India will get about 250 to 300 FGA from the joint production.

New York: The United Nations refugee agency appealed today for greater efforts to help an estimated 12 million people worldwide who are considered stateless and left in limbo with limited human rights.

LUCKNOW: The Allahabad High Court verdict on Ayodhya is being assessed by all the leading political parties of Uttar Pradesh to chalk out their respective strategy for facing the crucial assembly polls in 2012. Each and every part of the wide ranging verdict given on September 30 is being studied so that a long term electoral strategy can be formulated to woo both the Hindus and the Muslims.

New York: The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has made significant progress in education and child survival in recent years, but much more needs to be done to achieve the anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to a new United Nations-backed study.

New York: Natural disasters, conflict and weak institutions have thrust 22 countries into recurring food crises and high prevalence of hunger, two United Nations agencies said today in a report on food insecurity around the world, calling for longer-term solutions to help those States recover their productive capacity.

Tunis - The Boards of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group on Wednesday, 6 October 2010 approved a debt relief package for Liberia, noting that the country had effectively met the conditions and requirements under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI).

New York: Business leaders from around the world today pledged to slash their carbon emissions in areas ranging from energy, communications and construction at the end of a United Nations-backed summit in Mexico City.