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CALL ON SOUTH ASIAN JUDGES TO FACILITATE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR ALL

Special Correspondent - 2009-11-19 17:15
New York: The United Nations human rights chief has called on judges across South Asia to ensure that everyone has access to justice, as part of efforts to combat the scourges of inequality and discrimination.

YELLOW FEVER VACCINATION DRIVE TO COVER ALMOST 12 MILLION WEST AFRICANS

Special Correspondent - 2009-11-19 17:06
New York: The largest-ever mass vaccination campaign protecting populations from the dangerously infectious yellow fever disease will begin next week across three West African countries, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has announced.

NEED FOR LAW OF TORTS TO DEAL WITH ALL TYPES OF NEGLIGENCE!

M. Y. Siddiqui - 2009-11-19 17:02
The October 2009 blaze in the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) depot spanning over ten days in the outskirt of Jaipur (Rajasthan) in which 12 persons lost their lives and several got injured, which caused massive damages to the environment in the surroundings including harm to human health and properties, has once again brought on the fore the need for enacting a law of tort to deal with negligence or human failure by the state, organisations and individual professionals for their negligence in performing their legitimate duties in pursuance of Article 300 of the Constitution of India.
Not much excepted from Copenhagen Climate Conference

India to stick to its negotiating position, give leadership to developing nations

India would resist attempts to bring in black carbon emission issue
ASHOK B SHARMA - 2009-11-19 14:04
India has said that it does not expect that anything much could be achieved at the 10-day long crucial climate change negotiations scheduled in Copenhagen from December 7, 2009. But it has vowed to stick to its rigid negotiating position and continue to give leadership to the developing countries as negotiations are likely to continue beyond Copenhagen.
Poor infrastructure and political will retard South Asian FTA

India commits to play its proactive role in SAARC and SAFTA

ADB to promote infrastructure and help growth of private sector
ASHOK B SHARMA - 2009-11-17 14:46
Economic integration of all the eight South Asian countries posses a challenge to the political leaders of the region. Though South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) was operationalised from July 2006 the intra regional trade increased at a snail space from 3.2% in 1980s to only 5.5% in 2008, which is far below when compared with 58% in NAFTA, 54% in European Union, 25% in ASEAN and 22% in COMESA.
India: BJP politics

THE BJP AS POLITICAL FRANCHISE

AFTER THE KARNATAKA QUAKE
Praful Bidwai - 2009-11-17 10:48
The Bharatiya Janata Party's national leadership could not have cut a sorrier figure than it did with its abysmally inept handling of the latest political crisis in Karnataka, which very nearly brought down the only government the party heads in all of South India.
Uttar Pradesh

END OF KALYAN SINGH'S CAREER ?

UNABASHED OPPORTUNISM FAILS TO PAY
Amulya Ganguli - 2009-11-17 10:46
When even unabashed opportunism fails to help a politician, he is clearly at the end of his tether. Kalyan Singh's present condition is not unlike that of Trishanku as he remains suspended in midair between the Samajwadi Party and the BJP in U.P. At present, neither will accept him. The former chief minister has proved to be so undependable even in a country where defection is regarded as something of an art that one can only feel sorry for the ignominious way in which his career is ending.

ISRAEL MUST END GAZA BLOCKADE, EVICTIONS, ALLEGED ABUSE OF PALESTINIAN CHILDREN

Special Correspondent - 2009-11-17 10:26
New York: Israel should end the blockade of Gaza, cease evictions and demolitions of Palestinian homes, and ensure that the rights of children are respected and that all allegations of torture and ill-treatment are promptly investigated and perpetrators prosecuted, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in an annual report released today.

NEW TOOL TO MONITOR, COMBAT CORRUPTION LAUDED

Special Correspondent - 2009-11-17 10:17
New York: The head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has welcomed a new mechanism to monitor and implement a global treaty to fight corruption, the result of week-long negotiations in Doha, Qatar.