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New York: The number of people affected by the worst floods in living memory in Pakistan has been revised upward to 6 million, the United Nations has announced, voicing concern over hundreds of thousands of people who are stranded and unable to receive aid.

The Department of Atomic Energy is an integrated group of multi-disciplinary organisations comprising of 5 research centres, 3 industrial organisations, 5 public sector undertaking and 3 service organisations. It has two boards for funding extra-mural research in nuclear and allied fields and mathematics. It also supports 9 autonomous institutes.

When reports appeared about widespread labour unrest and disruption of work at MNC factories in China, some of us had seen it as the beginning of the end of the China miracle. What we had overlooked was that this is a development process equally applicable to India, Asia's other awakening giant. The two countries have followed virtually the same growth model and tools to achieve it. If China has forced labour without legal protection, we have our own obligatory 10-to-11-hour schedule without mentioning it in the annual package. How many high-end staff here return home before 8.30 pm?

In the wake of terrorist attacks, especially on Mumbai two years ago, the public rage over the inefficiency and lapses on the part of the security system has had a no-holds barred competition in chauvinism between the ruling coalition led by the Congress party and its main opposition led by BJP. Pakistan is always chosen as the most convenient target for this game. There are also side-effects for India's relations with its other neighbouring countries. This is palpable in the case of Sri Lanka and Nepal, besides Pakistan as the main target.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The decision of the Congress high command to allow the Kerala unit of the party to postpone the organisational elections may prove to be a remedy worse than the disease.

Tripoli - Africa is recovering strongly from the global crisis and countries like Libya are back on a high growth trajectory. This was the key message of the 2010 African Economic Outlook (AEO), launched in Tripoli, Libya.

New York: The actress and humanitarian activist Mia Farrow is set to give evidence on Monday about blood diamonds that are the current focus of testimony at the ongoing trial of the former Liberian president Charles Taylor at a United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal.

New York: United Nations peacekeeping operations have entered a consolidation phase, allowing the world body to focus on areas such as enhancing efficiency, planning and oversight, a senior official told the Security Council.

New York: Governmental policies aimed at retarding urban growth and depriving the poor of benefits and services increase poverty and environmental degradation, creating serious long-term problems that could be avoided by enlightened planning, according to a new United Nations study.

New York: Positive developments on the global disarmament agenda, including May's successful review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), are cause for optimism that the goal of achieving a world free of nuclear weapons will be achieved, United Nations officials say.