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New York: Global food prices are on the rise again, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported today, with the agency's Food Price Index registering four straight months of increases.

New York: The vast majority of the world's population is still exposed to the harmful effects of second-hand smoke, responsible for 600,000 premature deaths annually, despite the ban on smoking in public places being extended to seven more countries last year, a United Nations report warns today.

New York: Corruption kills development and is one of the biggest obstacles to achieving the globally agreed targets to reduce poverty, hunger and other social ills by 2015, also known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), United Nations officials warned today.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the report of Ranganath Misra Committee, which went into the issue of reservation for minorities, will be placed in Parliament during this session.

India has said that the manufacturing sector has a key role to play in ensuring equitable economic growth and called for effective transfer of technology from the developed to the developing world in order to accelerate green industrial growth.

KOLKATA: The first flush of enthusiasm following the capture of ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa and the “deputy commander-in-chief” of the militant outfit, Raju Barua, about the possibility of an early peace settlement is now giving way to a more sober assessment of the ground reality. With Rajkhowa remaining adamant on the demand for sovereignty, it is being realised that peace may not be just round the corner.

BHOPAL: Voters residing in the urban areas of Madhya Pradesh will exercise their franchise in two phases over the next one week to elect 268 urban local self-governing bodies. The first phase of voting is scheduled for December 11 and the second phase on December 14.

New York: War-torn and drought-ravaged Somalia is facing a humanitarian crisis with no funding so far raised or pledged for next year for food, water, sanitation, health and other vital needs and the potential that the situation could spill over into a major regional crisis for its neighbours, senior United Nations officials warned.

New York: Highlighting recent progress in efforts to achieve nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged nations to build on the momentum, laying out a number of steps to move the process forward.