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In his keynote address to the 10th Annual Herzliya Conference in Tel Aviv, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the world economy was reviving faster than expected, but the recovery was still fragile. “Domestic demand, mostly in advance countries, is still driven by the public sector stimulus. Private demand is still rather weak,” he warned.

New York: Members of the Darfur mediation team, including the United Nations, the African Union and Qatar, today stated their continued commitment to negotiations aimed at achieving peace in the strife-torn Sudanese region.

New York: The United Nations has directly warned Côte d’Ivoire’s outgoing president and his entourage that they will be held personally accountable amid continuing reports of extrajudicial executions, disappearances, sexual violence and arbitrary detentions following his refusal to step down.

New York: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today hailed a new law granting children in the Republic of Congo belonging to indigenous populations a legal basis to access health, education and protection.

Over the years, the size of the public sector has increased and currently, there are 473 central PSUs including banks and insurance companies. Out of these, 104 are listed and 369 unlisted; while at the State level there are 1160 State PSUs. It is estimated by informed financial analysts that the valuation of the central PSUs on P/E basis for the listed companies and P/B basis for the unlisted companies is now placed at $ 450-$500 billion dollars or 40-45% of country's GDP.

New York: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the support of African leaders to give new impetus to his campaign to end the violence suffered by women on the continent, which he called the 'unsung heroines' of development in the region.

Nitin Gadkari will be confirmed as BJP president at the party's national council session in the third week of February. In the normal course, it is absurd to judge an incumbent even before the filing of his nomination papers which is scheduled for February 8. But then Gadkari is not a normal president of the BJP.

JAIPUR: The Ashok Gehlot Government is caught in a new controversy: that of allowing illegal mining by private contractors in the Aravalli hill areas in Alwar district.

New Delhi: The Model Rules for the Right to Education (RTE) Act have been approved by the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Kapil Sibal. They have been circulated to the State Governments in the meeting of the State Education Secretaries for SSA and School Education.

New Delhi: As part of its Diamond Jubilee celebrations, the Election Commission of India (ECI) held bilateral meetings with election commissions of several countries for future collaboration.