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New York: The forthcoming conference on the world’s least developed countries provides an opportunity for the international community to recommit to helping these vulnerable States achieve economic growth and social development, a senior United Nations official said today.

New York: UN General Assembly President Joseph Deiss has been conferring with Chinese officials on a range of issues on the United Nations agenda, including the global anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), sustainable development, global governance, and reform of the world body.

New York: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for the release of journalists, opposition candidates and their supporters who continue to be detained in Belarus following recent presidential elections.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed today the second and third reviews of Djibouti’s economic performance under the three-year Extended Credit Facility (ECF). The completion of the reviews enables the immediate disbursement of SDR 2.952 million (about US$4.52 million), bringing total disbursements under the program to SDR 8.292 million (US$12.70 million).

New York: The joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) said today it is investigating further clashes in an area where thousands of people have already been displaced by recent fighting between Sudanese Government forces and rebels.

New Delhi: With the open content and open-access movement, we are seeing the early emergence of a meta-university — a transcendent, accessible, empowering, dynamic, communally constructed framework of open materials and platforms on which much of higher education worldwide can be constructed or enhanced., the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Kapil Sibal said while inaugurating the Indo-US Engineering Education Conclave here today.

New Delhi: Shri A. N. Raman, a Central Council Member of The Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (ICWAI), functioning under the aegis of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, has taken over as the President, South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA), with effect from January, 2011. He was elected yesterday in the 72nd meeting of the General Assembly of SAFA held at Chennai.

The 98th Indian Science Congress was held at the SRM university campus near Chennai from 3rd to 7th January this year. The five day event from Monday to Friday was seen by thousands of visitors who included school children, scientists, research scholars and science lovers. A galaxy of Scientists attended the Science Congress - Professor Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, the Indian born American scientist and his co-winners of Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2009 Professor Thomas A. Steitz and Professor Ada E. Yonath and Professor Martin Chalfie, who won the 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry and Professor Tim Hunt, the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2001.

New Delhi: The 9th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas concluded here on Sunday with a happy note highlighting the several achievements of Overseas Indians and non-resident Indians (NRIs) across the globe. The President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil conferred Pravasi Bharatiya Sanman Awards to as many as 14 Overseas Indians and one Qatar-based social organization for their outstanding contributions. Though the Overseas Indians continue to prosper and contribute to the economy of the country of their residence or domicile, the situation in Malaysia appears to be different. There may few exceptions like Tan Sri Dato Ajit Singh of Malaysia who received the Pravasi Bharatiya Sanman Award.

New Delhi: A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Ministry of Railways and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), a central Government PSU under Ministry of Steel, here today, for setting up of a new Rail Axle Manufacturing Factory at New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal.