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New York: Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has stressed that there must be no impunity for any serious crimes committed during the 2008 conflict in South Ossetia, Georgia, after they wrapped up an official visit to the Caucasus country.

New York: United Nations agencies are urging the international community to mobilize resources to boost child nutrition in Niger in the wake of new Government data that shows that the situation has deteriorated in the last 12 months.

New York: The United Nations has begun providing quality seeds to 100,000 vulnerable farmers in Burkina Faso, one of several nations in the Sahel region suffering from a growing food crisis that is putting millions at risk of hunger.

New York: Disparities in research capacity among social scientists across the world have reduced the capacity of the field to contribute to human welfare, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has said in a report.

New York: A new laboratory has been set up in the Ivorian port city of Abidjan to improve the monitoring of hazardous materials under a project backed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) that aims to prevent a repeat of a notorious incident in which thousands of people were sickened by toxic waste.

New Delhi: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has asked the Press Council of India (PCI) to submit its report on paid news as soon as possible, the Minister Mrs Ambika Soni told reporters here yesterday.

New Delhi: After misuse of cough syrup, in North East India and bordering Bangladesh for “high”, medicines for menstrual pain and other such prescription drugs are becoming favourites among addicts in the region and other parts of the country.

If the costs of all other factors of production can happily move upward and companies are quick to factor them in pricing their end products, why is there so much government pressure on the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and public sector banks to keep the cost of funds to industry low and under control? What is preventing RBI from tightening money supply to check the double-digit-plus inflation rate despite the untold hardship it is creating to the common man? The argument that a tighter money supply resulting in higher bank interest rates would affect the economic growth rate is untenable. Economy is growing well despite rising costs of all inputs other than bank funds. Two to three per cent increase in the lending rates is unlikely to make much difference to industry and its profitability.

BHOPAL: What was the role of the doctors in the Bhopal gas tragedy? While the June 7 verdict has given nominal punishment to the UCC executives and the chief culprit UCC boss at that time Warren Anderson is enjoying his post-retirement days in his posh villa near New York, no mention is being made of the role of the doctors who did not take the symptoms of the gas victims seriously on the night of December 2/3, 1984 and kept on insisting that the gas would have only a mild effect that would wear off within a few hours. And mind you, they were doctors from the UCC, who must have been aware of the lethal nature of methyl isocyanate.

New York: Amphetamine-type stimulants and prescription medications are increasingly becoming the drugs of choice globally, according to a new United Nations report, which also notes that drug use has stabilized in developed nations while it seems to be rising in the developing world.