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New York: Sudanese police officials have wrapped up a series of United Nations-backed security training sessions in the country's war-ravaged region of Darfur in preparation for this year's national election.

Thiruvananthapuram: The mean sea level rise has already rung the warning bell for the Indian coastal zone. The secretary in the Union ministry for earth sciences, Dr Shailesh Nayak informed the audience of the 97th Indian Science Congress here on Tuesday that the Indian Ocean has risen by 9 mm in the period 2004-08.

The Bharatiya Janata Party has made a major tactical mistake by joining a totally opportunist ruling coalition under Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader Shibu Soren in Jharkhand. There is no popular mandate for this. The coalition will be unstable and unlikely to retain a majority in the 81-member Assembly. The electorate delivered a stinging rebuff to the BJP, whose seat tally has fallen from 30 to 18. This was a clear message that the BJP should stay out of power.

It's going to be a chilly winter for Lalu Yadav. Not only has his successor in the Railway Ministry, Mamata Banerjee, hinted at exposing the falsities in his claims of a turnaround in the railway's revenues, the latest figures of the Central Statistical Organization (CSO) show that Nitish Kumar's government has achieved a miracle by reviving Bihar's economy.

New York: There is currently no indication of an early improvement in the security situation in Afghanistan, which deteriorated last year - dramatically so in Kabul, the capital - and a better coordinated international effort is crucial to reversing overall negative trends, according to the latest United Nations report.

New York: As the number of people driven from their homes to escape violence across Colombia topped three million in 2009, the United Nations refugee agency said today that more and more of the forcibly displaced are seeking safety on scraps of land that no one else wants.

New Delhi: The Drought Manual of india was released today which is expected to prove an effective practical guideline for administrators, experts and civil society in implementing drought mitigation and relief measures and for alleviating distress of the drought affected people.

New Delhi: The eleventh Conference of Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will be held in October 2012 in New Delhi. This would mark the twentieth anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit and will be called 'Rio + 20' CBD Conference.

New Delhi: The government has recently taken a decision to lead by example by having all new central government and PSU buildings to meet requirements of at least three star rating under GRIHA, though efforts would be made to achieve four star requirements wherever site conditions permit.