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New Delhi: Government of India has conceded to the demand for a separate Telangana state for which the process will be initiated and an appropriate resolution will be moved in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly.

The humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe, plagued in recent years by food shortages, an erosion of basic services and an economic downturn due in part to long-running political strife, has significantly improved but continued aid is still needed to maintain the positive gains, a top United Nations official said.

The Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders are finding “growing convergence” on many of the issues that have divided the two sides on the Mediterranean island, a United Nations official said today as he expressed cautious optimism that UN-backed talks aimed at reunifying Cyprus will succeed.

New York: The United Nations official leading efforts to tackle malaria is visiting Nigeria and Kenya this week, the two nations which together account for one third of the estimated 1 million deaths worldwide from the deadly disease.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will support the Maldives government's plan to implement sweeping economic reforms to restore its ailing economy to sustainable growth.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Cambodia will target sweeping new measures to boost incomes and livelihood opportunities for thousands of poor households in the Tonle Sap Basin region, in a bid to broaden the country's economic base and address growing income disparities between urban and rural areas.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Indigenous peoples' hold oncommunal lands and resources in Asia is under pressure, although national and international laws and safeguard policies provide a platform for them to claim their ancestral land rights, according to a new Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded publication.

New York: A United Nations-backed intelligence sharing centre for Central Asian countries on the front line of the battle against drug trafficking from Afghanistan opened in Kazakhstan today, just a day after Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council called for greater global cooperation in the war on narcotics.