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MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Manila Water Company Inc. are funding an assessment of the wastewater and sanitation needs along the eastern side of the Pasig River, Manila's polluted main waterway.

New Delhi: The Programme of Cooperation (POC) in Science & Technology with the Republic of Korea for the period of 2010-12 was signed here today by Shri Prithviraj Chavan, Minister of State (I/C) for Science & Technology with his Korean counterpart H.E. Byong Man Ahn.

New Delhi: The Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Shri Murli Deora discussed enhancing cooperation in Oil & Gas Sector between Indian and Sudan at a meeting today with his Sudanese counterpart, Shri Awad Ahmed Al Jazz at Khartoum.

New Delhi: There are in excess of 300,000 undertrials in India which is 70 percent of the jail population. Only 30 percent of the people, who are in jails of India, are actually convicted and imprisoned. Keeping this in mind, Union Government has decided to constitute a task force to know the ways and means to clear the mess. Of the undertrials, roughly about 200,000 inmates, have been in jail for several years, essentially because of delays in the justice delivery system.

NEW DELHI: The DRDO-FICCI Accelerated Technology Assessment and Commercialization (ATAC) Programme reached a new landmark on Monday with the signing of 6 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) and leading industry players. The MoUs will enable transfer of DRDO developed technologies to the partner industries and, in turn, make them globally competitive. The ATAC, a joint initiative of DRDO and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), is aimed at helping industries to absorb high-quality DRDO technologies and apply them commercially to produce quality and reliable industrial products at an affordable cost to the consumer.

The Maldivian economy continues to face serious challenges. In particular, addressing the very large fiscal deficit is of paramount importance to secure a stable economy, equitable growth, and lasting poverty reduction.

Between 2005 and 2008, Malaysia's economy continued to grow steadily although the pace of growth slowed in 2008 and in particular in the first quarter of 2009 reflecting the global financial crisis and associated sharp fall in exports, according to a WTO Secretariat report on the trade policies and practices of Malaysia.

Why the IPL franchisees shied away from “buying” Pakistani players will probably never be known. Did New Delhi secretly send a negative advisory? Or did the tycoons and matinee idols believe that the risk was not worth taking when aman ki asha is no more than a media hype? After all, Yousuf Raza Gilani has refused to rule out a repeat of 26/11.

Politics tends to lose its charm if IT IS not spicy. The latest example is of Himachal Pradesh. Its relative political calm, which had driven the state into the obscure spaces of newspapers' inside columns, has been stirred up by two controversies which are making headlines.

New Delhi: The second meeting of Ministers of the four BASIC Group countries took place in New Delhi today. The Ministers called upon the COP President (Denmark) to convene meetings of the two negotiating groups — (AWG-LCA and the AWG-KP) - in March 2010 and to ensure that the AWGs meet at least 5 times before the Mexico Conference.