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Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh delivered a balanced appraisal of where the nation stands after 63 years of independence, the most significant part of his address on August 15 being that, “we do need to implement schemes we have started” effectively, minimising ” corruption and misuse of public money”. Would it be too much to expect that it (implementation) would be the core of the agenda of his government if UPA-2 is to scrape through the rest of its five-year term, with semblance of credible governance?

The reason why the average Indian regards the pay hike for the MPs with amused contempt is the exceptionally unflattering image of the political class. Ever since the Gandhi cap became the symbol of sleaze rather than of patriotism, the reputation of the politicians has gone from bad to worse. Of late, the usual allegations of corruption against them have been supplemented by the addition of an even worse “c” - that of criminality.

New York: The United Nations is dispatching a senior staff member to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as senior officials express outrage at the recent rape and assault of more than 150 civilians by rebels based in the remote and troubled east of the country.

New York: Hollywood actress and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie used her recent visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina to call for practical and urgent steps to alleviate the plight of the 113,000 people who remain displaced in the country some 15 years after the end of the war.

New York: The situation in one of the largest camps for people uprooted by the conflict in the war-ravaged Sudanese region of Darfur has topped talks between top United Nations and African Union (AU) officials.

New York: An assessment of the environmental impact of oil spills across Ogoniland and the Niger Delta regions in Nigeria is not yet complete, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) stressed today as it refuted allegations in the media that it has already reached key findings.

New York: An outbreak of cholera in the three neighbouring West African countries of Cameroon, Nigeria and Niger has infected nearly 4,000 people and killed more than 260 others since May, the United Nations health agency reported today, blaming the epidemic on poor hygiene and inadequate access to clean water.

New York: A new online publication by the United Nations trade arm explores alternative methods that governments and international investors may use to resolve increasingly frequent disputes that must currently be handled through lengthy international arbitration.

New York: The massive floods in Pakistan have spread to the southern province of Sindh, where hundreds of thousands of people are on the move after evacuating their inundated villages, a United Nations official said today, as humanitarian agencies continued to deliver relief supplies to millions of those affected.

The Common Wealth Games 2010, opening to athletes world wide drawn from the commonwealth countries on October 3 this year, has generated more heat and debate than any other issue in the media recently, much more than its predecessor , the 1982 Asian Games.