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New Delhi: India Meteorological Department is modernising its observational network. Under Ist phase of modernization, India Meteorological Department (IMD) is replacing its old and conventional radar by the state of art S-band Doppler Weather Radar (DWR) in a phased manner at different locations all over the country. This radar will play a vital role for providing information of bad weather events over Delhi and its adjoining areas.

The fiscal year 2009-10 that has just gone by, has been a difficult period for India. The country had to bear the impact of the global financial crisis. What stood India in good stead was its strong economic fundamentals but despite that it could not save itself entirely from the impact. It, however, goes to India's credit that while the world economies went into the red with negative economic growth, India continued to maintain a respectable growth rate. Though the final figures are yet to come out the estimates are that we will post a 7.2 percent growth for this period.

In May 2005, one year after he took over, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gave himself six out of ten marks for his government's performance. How would he rate his second innings? How does the country rate his one-year in office? Before judging the UPA 2 performance, one has to bear in mind the circumstances under which the Congress came to power in 2004 and 2009.

New York: A “green revolution” led by Africa's small farmers, and harnessing the latest technologies and innovations, is vital if the continent is to reduce extreme poverty and hunger by 2015, just two of the eight globally agreed Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to a new United Nations report.

New York: All drivers of United Nations vehicles are now prohibited from using their mobile telephones to send text messages while driving under a new measure unveiled by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to try to promote road safety and save lives.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, led by Mr. Mark Lewis, visited Yerevan during May 6-19. The mission reached a staff-level agreement with the authorities on a program supported by arrangements under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and the Extended Credit Facility (ECF). The staff level agreement is subject to approval by IMF management and the Executive Board. A discussion of the program request at the Executive Board is planned for late June. Access under the program (290 percent of quota) would total SDR 267 million (US$392 million), covering the period through June 2013. Board approval of the program would enable Armenia to draw about US$52 million.

New York: The United Nations tribunal that is trying the leader of the Serb Radical Party for crimes against humanity and war crimes upheld his conviction for contempt of court and 15-month jail sentence for disclosing information on 11 protected witnesses.

New York: The simmering tensions and continued instability in both the Horn of Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) were under the spotlight as the Security Council met to discuss peace and security on the continent.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has completed its annual review of the Fund's income position for the financial year ended April 30, 2010 (FY 2010) and set the lending rate for IMF credit for the financial year ending April 30, 2011 (FY 2011).

New York: The United Nations has called on the international community to support the Tajik Government's appeal for $5.3 million to provide relief and recovery aid to thousands of victims of deadly floods in the south of the impoverished Central Asian country.