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New Delhi: The 56th National Film Awards for 2008 were announced today. The Juries for Feature Film, Non-Feature Film and for Best Writing on Cinema presented their report to the Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Smt Ambika Soni today.

CPI(M) veteran Jyoti Basu's death has revived the 'historic blunder' theme. Among those who have nostalgically lamented the CPI(M)'s decision in 1996 are Lalu Prasad Yadav, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Sharad Yadav and a host of media analysts. The episode had happened 14 years ago.

Those who still deny - among them are the Prime Minister and the Union Finance Minister - that market-driven economic growth in India is sustainable and inflationary pressures can be brought under control by measures such as liberal imports to improve supply side of the economy and opening the Indian market wider for foreign investment are shutting their eyes to reality and trying to delude the people.

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav is facing the daunting task of rebuilding the party before the 2012 UP Assembly elections in the post-Amar Singh period.

New York: The failure of last month's United Nations summit in Copenhagen to agree on ambitious and immediate global action to combat climate change means that the task has become more, not less urgent, a senior UN official said in an opinion piece published in Bangkok Post.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Brazil have signed an agreement under which Brazil would purchase up to US$10 billion in IMF notes over a period of up to two years. The note purchase agreement follows the endorsement by the Executive Board on July 1, 2009 of the framework for issuing notes to the official sector.

New York: Northern Kosovo remains a flashpoint amid continuing tensions between Kosovo Serb and Kosovo Albanian communities there despite a greater understanding over reconstruction of destroyed housing by the communities, the top United Nation official said there.

New York: The parties to the 2005 peace accord that ended Sudan's north-south civil war have made important breakthroughs, but a return to violence is still a very real possibility, warns a new United Nations report.

New York: Israel has paid the United Nations $10.5 million for damage to the world body's properties in Gaza during last year's Israeli offensive against Hamas.

The Internationally agreed regime for climate change is laid down in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1992. Under the Convention, all industrialized countries have binding commitments to reduce their emissions. The Parties to UNFCCC signed the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. The Protocol lays downs binding quantified emission reduction targets for all the 37 industrialised countries that are listed in Annex-I of the Convention for the first commitment period 2008-2012, although US, the World's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, did not ratify the Kyoto Protocol.