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New York: The United Nations human rights chief today strongly condemned the killing of 72 migrants in northern Mexico and called on the authorities to take urgent steps to ensure that those responsible are brought to justice.

New York: The International Criminal Court (ICC) today informed the Security Council that Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the tribunal on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, travelled to Kenya, which, like other States, is obliged to enforce the court's arrest warrants against him.

New Delhi: Government of India has proposed seed Registration to be compulsory. However, Farmers of this country would not be enforced to do so.

New Delhi: No Additional Tax Levied on Vehicles Going to Amarnath and Vaishno Devi, said the Minister of State for Finance, Shri S.S. Palanimanickam in reply to an Unstarred Question in Lok Sabha today.

New Delhi: Shri Maurice Kujur, Vice-Chairman, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes presented the Fourth Report of the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes for the year 2008-09 to the President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil at Rashtrapati Bhawan today. Smt. K Kamala Kumari, Member of the Commission was also present on the occasion.

New York: Serious human rights violations were committed during the demonstrations held in Côte d'Ivoire in February following the dissolution of the Government and the national electoral authority, according to the United Nations mission in the West African nation.

Is your bank also a promoter of a life insurance company? Like HDFC Bank is linked with HDFC Standard Life. Were you ever approached by an HDFC employee to buy a unit-linked insurance policy (ULIP) or a pension policy from HDFC Standard Life? With all probability you were. Private insurance companies are aggressively using their promoter-bank connections or bank tie-ups to sell policies among bank customers. Call it an innovative marketing or whatever, the practice may not stand the scrutiny of either the banking or insurance regulations or the provisions of labour laws, premises act, competition act, etc., apart from business ethics.

BHOPAL: Over the last one week, the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mr. Shivraj Singh Chauhan has suffered serious setbacks on two counts. The first was a crucial judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court and the other the rejection of a proposal put up by the Chief Minister by the state Cabinet.

KOLKATA: For West Bengal, the last fortnight has been a revelation. There have been times when it seemed there was no government in the state!

New Delhi: The indigenous bovine breeds have genetic potential for higher milk production which can be achieved through implementation of systematic and scientific genetic improvement programmes.