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WTO ministers ended their two-and-a-half-day Geneva conference on 2 December 2009 having declared that they want to try to conclude the Doha Round talks quickly and agreeing to extend “moratoriums” on electronic commerce and intellectual property.

Multimedia scenario in India was never so good and competitive as it has been today. With mushrooming growth in the media world, people of India have emerged masters in the choice of the TV channels, be it the news or entertainment ones. Same is the case with the print media. Major area of growth in the print media has been in the area of magazines and journals following a liberalized Foreign Direct Investment regime in vogue.

Despite a dedicated Union Ministry of Women and Child Development having been created by the UPA Government for all round development of women in the form of a plethora of measures taken to bring women closer to complete legal equality, gender budgeting and initiation of programmes for their greater inclusion in all walks of life, women of India continue to be exploited in all spheres of activities.

New Delhi: With reports suggesting that China was building over two dozen new airstrips along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the govt has said there was no need to be 'unnecessarily' worried as India was adequately strengthening itself.

New Delhi: Several references regarding illegal payments to the officials in India have been made in the US report on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and Anti-corruption Enforcement for the second half of 2008 and early part of 2009.

New Delhi: During the trilateral Ministerial meeting of IBSA (India-Brazil-South Africa) last evening, the three Ministers agreed to take forward the negotiations in the India-MERCOSUR-SACU framework.

New Delhi: India and Bangladesh finalised drafts of Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, Agreement on Combating International Terrorism, Organized Crime and Illicit Drug Trafficking; and Agreement on Transfer of Sentenced Persons.

Pune: This year, Dr. Vijay Bhatkar, Chief Mentor of ETH / I2IT / Multiversity, founder Executive Director of C-DAC, the man who gave India its first indigenous supercomputer, PARAM, has been chosen for ACM Fellow Award (Association for Computing Machinery, USA) for his contributing to advanced computing research and education. This is perhaps for the first time an Indian has been chosen for this recognition for his work carried out entirely in India .

NEW DELHI: Working women from all over the country marching to Parliament on December 4, 2009 to draw the attention of the Government to their problems is a rare event in the history of the nation.

BHOPAL: On the 3rd of December this year, it will be exactly 25 years since the lethal MIC gas gushed out of the pesticide plant of transnational giant Union Carbide Corporation in Bhopal, raining death and destruction on the city. Thousands died and lakhs are still suffering.