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New Delhi: The NCR planning Board under Ministry of Urban Development has modified the colour code for all contract carriage vehicles in the NCR for unrestricted movement of vehicles in NCR. The Taxi operators will now have to put `NCR Taxi' / `NCR Radio Taxi' on a plate above the wind screen (to be visible from front and rear both). Sticker of NCR logo is to be pasted/ painted on the body of the taxi.

India is ambitious to counter the impact of global financial crisis and maintain a high GDP growth rate in the range of 7% to 9% before entering into the double digit percentage level. With the demand for energy slated to double by 2020 to cater to the development programmes, India now looks at resource-rich Africa to meet its energy needs.

New Delhi: There is an urgent need for implementing various strategies and measures to boost agricultural production in Asia utilizing the available water and land resources with the highest efficiency possible including the social, economic and ecological areas.

It was 33 years ago that the RSS had agreed to disband the Bharatiya Jana Sangh to merge its rank and file with the Morarji-led Janata Party. When the Janata Party got disintegrated in 1980, the parivar allowed Atal Behari Vajpayee to run the newly formed BJP as a liberal outfit with secularism, 'Gandhian' socialism and 'genuine' non-alignment as its core policies.

Even as the Reserve Bank of India started to review its expansionary monetary policy in support of the “stimulus” programme of the UPA government for the private corporate business in the wake of global financial meltdown, Mr. C. Rangarajan, chairman of PM's economic advisory council cautioned that soaring food prices warranted stricter monetary policy. Food inflation, meanwhile, soared to over 17 per cent early in December of this year.

One step forward two steps backward seem to be the Centre's policy on the separate Telangana issue. After announcing the decision on a bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, the Centre has gone into a “pause mode” in view of the violent reaction from the state as well as other parts of the country.

New York: Climate change is posing a serious threat to communities in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region, bringing both drought and catastrophic floods to hundreds of millions of people, according to a new United Nations-backed report.

New York: Even though young people aged 15 to 29 in the so-called Mercosur countries of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay are better educated than ever before they are more likely to be unemployed, while a Latin American youth is 30 times more likely to be murdered than one in Europe, according to a United Nations report.

New York: New texts are under consideration at the landmark climate change conference under way in Copenhagen, Denmark, and while they are a key step forward in the talks, the United Nations stressed that they do not presuppose either a final outcome or its legal form.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today approved a three-year, SDR 346.45 million (about US$551.45 million) arrangement for the Democratic Republic of the Congo under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF).