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New York: The number of new cancer cases and deaths will double in the next two decades, cancer researchers at the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) have announced.

New York, Jun 2 2010 1:10PM
Strongly condemning Israel's actions against the humanitarian flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip, the United Nations Human Rights Council voted to dispatch an independent, international probe into violations of international law resulting from Monday's incident.

New York: The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) is giving $646,000 to immunize hundreds of thousands of children in Lesotho, the Southern African country which since January has been grappling with a deadly outbreak of the disease.

New York: How the world contends with the agriculture and energy sectors will serve as a bellwether for development in the 21st century, largely determining whether growth will be sustainable for billions of people, according to a new United Nations-backed report.

The WTO Secretariat, on 27 May 2010, organized a workshop on Aid for Trade and Development Finance. A main message emerging from the workshop was that Aid for Trade is an integral part of the development finance architecture, and was of even greater importance during the period of economic recovery.

The third WTO Review of China's trade policies and practices and their impact on the functioning of the multilateral trading system took place in Geneva on 31 May and 2 June 2010.

The value of world merchandise trade was around 25% higher in the first three months of 2010 than in the same period of 2009, according to WTO figures released on 2 June 2010. Global exports rose by 27%, while imports rose slightly less, at 24%. These are “year-on-year” quarterly comparisons.

New Delhi: As per assessment study conducted by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) on the impact of climate change, a rise in temperature reduces crop duration, increases crop respiration rates, affects the equilibrium between crops and pests, hastens nutrient mineralization in soils, decreases fertilizer use efficiencies, and increases evapo-transpiration.

Presidents and Deans of many US Universities met Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Kapil Sibal today at Washington DC and expressed their desire to set up higher education institutions in India. They also appreciated the process of academic reforms initiated in India and said that they would like to be active partners in the growth story of Indian education.

New Delhi: The Law and Justice Minister, Dr. Veerappa Moily has said that the government will open Law University in each state of the country.