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New York: Although 146 States of the 192 Member States of the United Nations ratified or acceded to the international convention outlawing torture, the practice is still rife worldwide 25 years after the treaty's adoption, the UN Committee against Torture warned.

New York: A United Nations gathering aimed at tackling some of the urgent problems suffered by the mounting number of refugees seeking shelter in cities and towns has wrapped up today with calls for greater efforts to help the forcibly displaced.

Andhra Pradesh plunged into a fresh political crisis with resignations of 93 MLAs from the state legislature and an MP from the parliament of India in protest against the Centre's decision to carve out a separate Telangana state and inviting TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao to Delhi to discuss the next step in the formation of separate Telengana. Among the legislator resigned 53 were from Congress, 30 from TDP including one MP and 11 from Praja Rajyam.

New Delhi: Rising prices of potatoes, onions and pulses pushed food inflation to a high of 19.05 per cent in the fourth week of November, according to review of wholesale prices for primary articles and fuel, power, light & lubricants in India for the week ended 28th November 2009 released today. It was 17.47 per cent for the week ended 21st November.

New Delhi: The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has constituted two Expert Committees for up gradation of National Film Awards (NFA) as also for up gradation of International Film Festival of India (IFFI).

New Delhi: Out of estimated ultimate irrigation potential of about 139.9 million hectare (Mha), State Governments have reported creation of irrigation potential of about 106.3 Mha up to March 2009.

New Delhi: Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has come up with the rules for incorporating volunteers in the work of the Authority so that unique IDs to all the residents of the country could be provided in time.

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has hinted at his retirement at the end of his current Lok Sabha term. Expectations are that the BJP leader L.K. Advani may call it a day soon. CPI-M veteran Jyoti Basu and former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee are already leading a retired life. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi is the latest to announce that he will retire in June 2010.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - A package of reforms, investments and long-term strategies must be instituted by the Government of the Philippines to free the country from persistent poverty, which is constraining its economic and social development, according to a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) study.

New Delhi: In a major development that could considerably boost life expectancy and disease diagnostics in India, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has completed the first ever Human Genome Sequencing, opening new vistas of low cost affordable healthcare and predictive medicine for the common man.