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New York: Current international support measures for the least developed countries (LDCs) have failed to accelerate their growth and development and significant changes are needed to ensure better support structures for the poorer States, according to a United Nations report unveiled today.

New York: The United Nations envoy in Côte d'Ivoire today announced new measures to enhance the transparency and credibility of presidential election, three days ahead of the run-off poll in the West Africa country.

NEW DELHI: Bihar Assembly election results, once again have proved all political observers wrong, who could not foresee the unprecedented victory of Nitish led NDA in that state. The result is unprecedented in the sense that never before any political party or any alliance of political parties have ever captured 85 percent of seats of the Legislative Assembly of that state. Even in 1977, when Janata Party had swept the Lok Sabha elections winning all the 54 LS seats of the then undivided Bihar, the Assembly Elections held within a couple of months could not provide such a grand victory to the Janata Party.

When the BJP won Karnataka in May 2008, the leadership was delighted that at last the saffron flag would fly from Vidhan Soudha for the first time in the South. For decades the party had been trying to spread its influence in the Southern states with little success. However, the past two and a half years has shown that it is not an easy crown for the 67-year old chief minister Yediyurappa. From day one, he had to fight to keep his throne. The continuance of his government was a constant worry as the state was moving from crisis to crisis.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will extend financial assistance of $615 million for a major bridge project in Bangladesh which will help accelerate growth and poverty reduction in the country's poor and underdeveloped southwest.

New York: In an effort to address the growing problem of non-communicable diseases, representatives from 40 European countries will gather in Norway tomorrow under the auspices of the United Nations health agency to discuss what the region needs to do to respond to the crisis.

New York: Discussions at an international forum in Russia on restoring the global tiger population from the brink of extinction have resulted in a United Nations-led alliance to fight wildlife crime and put an end to the key drivers threatening the wild cats around the world.

New York: The main greenhouse gases have reached their highest concentration levels since pre-industrial times, a United Nations climate research body said today.

New York: Despite efforts by an increasing number of countries to safeguard the resilience of the world’s food production system, much more needs to be done to catalogue, conserve and better manage the genetic diversity of livestock, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today.

New York: States worldwide have a human rights obligation to remedy the wrongs suffered by trafficked persons, according to an independent United Nations human rights expert.