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New Delhi: The landlocked Laos has invited Indian investments in food processing, mining, hydropower, consumer items and tourism industry citing its growing connectivity in the Greater Mekong Sub-regional Economic Zone, through the East-West Economic Corridor and North-South Economic Corridor. Both these corridors would pass through Laos.

New Delhi: Now we have one more report of the Task force for the development and promotion of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). We have already over a dozen such reports. The question is whether the present recommendations would work. The answer is given in the report itself - 'None of these measures will work unless their implementation status is monitored regularly at the highest level [at Prime Minister's level].'

The world's dirtiest industries like oil, coal, automobiles, chemicals, cement and steel, and their supporters in the climate change-deniers' lobby, must feel elated at recent developments which detract from the agenda of fighting climate change.

Fascism, like communism, devours its own children. It is apparently the fate of all violent doctrines that the fury unleashed by them against perceived aliens acts like a boomerang to target their own followers. Thus, we see the strange spectacle of the Hindutva camp, which was so untied in its opposition to the minorities, is now bitterly divided in Maharashtra with the RSS pitted against the Shiv Sena and the MNS.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The World Bank and Microsoft have announced a new partnership that will seek to reinforce social and economic development in Africa by leveraging information and communication technology (ICT). The two institutions signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the sidelines of the summit meeting of African heads of State on the theme “ICTs in Africa: Challenges and Prospects for Development”.

New York: Farmers and villagers are taking part in United Nations-backed efforts to rid Afghanistan of landmines, which is also providing a much-needed boost to their incomes.

In a speech given on 27 January 2010 at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Aid for Trade review in Abuja, Nigeria, WTO Deputy Director-General Valentine Rugwabiza called on West African countries to establish the right policy environment to facilitate trade as it has an important role to play in the region's competitiveness.

New Delhi: An institutional mechanism for two way flow of information between Centre and States will be evolved for transfer of technology.

New York: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon - who as a citizen of the Republic of Korea understands the “emptiness” of a country divided into north and south - voiced optimism today that a solution to long-running problems is “within reach,” calling for the leaders of the two communities on the Mediterranean island to step up their efforts.

Rising prices of essential commodities coupled with wage deflation and increasing joblessness are pushing the poor households in India to a point of distress. Cosmetic measures of the government are unable to address the situation.