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New York: Britain's renowned “Curry King” has been giving poor refugee women in Bangladesh lessons on concocting nutritious dishes using United Nations food rations along with locally grown fruit and vegetables.

New Delhi: Department of Consumer Affairs is formulating a National Consumer Policy to ensure a structural framework for protection of consumers and their welfare.

KOLKATA: Both the ruling Left Front and the Trinamool Congress seem more keen on scoring political points rather than set up an industry at Singur, where the Tata group could not put up its small car plant in 2008.

At the start of the second decade of the 21st century, the outlook is one of a global economy struggling to recover from the worst recession since l930s, heightening of political tensions with unresolved crises across regions, and an intensification of the war to defeat international terrorism with its epicentre currently in Pakistan-Afghanistan.

New York: The moderate impact of the H1N1 pandemic is the “best possible health news of the decade,” but the head of the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) warned that more people - particularly in the southern hemisphere - could become sick this season and that it would be premature to say the health risk is over.

New York: Latin American port authorities are seizing more drug consignments and counterfeit goods along container routes thanks to a United Nations-backed initiative that is showing growing success after its inception six years ago.

New Delhi: Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh and Prime Minister of Japan, Dr Yukio Hatoyama held the Annual Bilateral Summit in New Delhi on 29 December 2009. They discussed bilateral as well as regional and global issues and agreed to strengthen bilateral strategic and economic relations .

By sealing the so-called Copenhagen Accord with the United States, the BASIC grouping (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) has mocked at the multilateral negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), destroyed the unity of the developing-countries bloc, the Group of 77 + China, and paved the way for accelerated global climate change.

Shibu Soren's swearing-in as the Jharkhand chief minister may be a matter of rejoicing for his party and the ruling alliance, which includes the BJP, but it will mark another sad day for the nine-year-old state. Created as a measure of empowerment for the tribals, who constitute the majority, the state has been led by politicians who have hardly brought any glory to the people they claim to represent.

WASHINGTON - The World Bank approved a US$5.38 million grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for the Sustainable Transport and Air Quality Project in Mexico to be executed by the World Bank (WB).