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New York: Violence and discrimination against women and girls remains pervasive and is often overlooked, a United Nations independent human rights expert said today, adding that efforts to achieve the global anti-poverty goals should include closer attention to the protection of women’s rights.

The WTO Secretariat reported that during the period 1 January — 30 June 2010, the number of initiations of new anti-dumping investigations showed a 29% decrease compared with the corresponding period of 2009. The number of new measures applied also decreased during the first semester of 2010 when compared with the first half of 2009.

New York: Burkina Faso today became the first country to begin a nationwide campaign to introduce a new vaccine that promises to rid the entire region of the primary cause of epidemic meningitis, the United Nations health agency announced.

New Delhi: Prof. K.V. Thomas, Minister of State for Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution said in reply to a question in the Lok Sabha that Futures trading does not impact the price or availability of any commodity in the short-term. But in the medium or long-term price discovery process facilitates strategic action by various stake holders including policy planners in government to augment production and imports in shortage situation and export and MSP operations during surplus situation, thereby helping the consumers and producers respectively as well as stabilize the prices. Thus, futures market helps the players in the real economy to plan their economic activities better and balance the demand-supply equation.

New York: Burundi has made significant progress over the past year in moving away from its violent past towards a future of peace, stability and development but security, food, human rights and sexual violence remain matters of concern, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a new report.

The cooperation in nuclear energy sector between India and France reached a news peak today with the signing of five related agreements. In the security and defence sector discussions concerning the upgrading of Mirage 2000 aircraft are expected to be finalised soon. A MoU was signed between Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Centre National D’etudes Spatiales (CNEc) for cooperation in earth science systems and climate study.

New Delhi: The 8th meeting of the India-Kazakhstan Inter-Governmental Commission (IGC) on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological, Industrial and Cultural cooperation was held on 06 December 2010 in New Delhi.

New Delhi: The fourth of the new Naval Offshore Patrol Vessel (NOPV) was ceremoniously launched on 06 Dec 2010 at the Goa Shipyard by Smt Sheila Singh, wife of Shri RK Singh, Secretary (Defence Production).

New Delhi: A Polish delegation led by Mr. Bogdan Zdrojewski, Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland recently visited India on the invitation of Secretary, Culture Shri Jawhar Sircar. During the visit, a bilateral meeting was held between the two sides to discuss the matters of mutual interests in the culture sector.

New Delhi: In view of the sudden and inordinate surge in airfares from 15 November 2010 onwards, particularly on various metro routes, all scheduled airlines were directed to bring tariffs to a reasonable level on 17 November 2010.