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BHOPAL: The provisions of the Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act are not being properly implemented in Madhya Pradesh.

Executive Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have commended the authorities for their sound fundamentals and forceful countercyclical policies, which helped Malaysia emerge from the global downturn with a strong forward momentum. A broad-based recovery is underway and policies are returning to more normal settings. The challenge now is to make progress toward the authorities' target of economic growth and structural transformation.

New York: United Nations independent human rights experts have urged the repeal of all laws discriminating against people affected by leprosy, which has been eliminated as a public health problem in most countries but still carries a strong social stigma.

Guess who is complaining about the fiscal dominance of the monetary policy. Duvvuri Subbarao is not the only Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor to be unhappy about the interference of the North Block, the home of the union finance ministry, in the central bank's exercise of the monetary policy making powers to control inflation. Several of his predecessors in RBI had felt the same way but could do little to ensure independence of the central bank in fixing interest rates and control the inflow of private equity (PE) and excessive unaccounted foreign funds in the stock market from dubious sources through circuitous routes creating additional pressure on money supply.

KOLKATA: It is time that senior UPA Ministers like Mr. P. Chidambaram or Mr. Pranab Mukherjee start calling a spade a spade: the sooner they concede that the Trinamool Congress has close links with the CPI (Maoist) party, the better it would be for the image of the Congress (I).

New York: The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that Madagascar is at risk of a crop-eating locust plague, potentially jeopardizing the livelihoods of 460,000 rural families.

Executive Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have commended the authorities of Latvia for undertaking difficult fiscal and financial sector reforms, which have helped stabilize the economy and contributed to a rebound after last year's deep recession. Although near-term vulnerabilities have declined substantially, the recovery is still fragile and significant medium-term challenges remain toward the goal of euro adoption. Directors underscored the importance of sustained fiscal adjustment, restoration of financial sector health, and continued structural reforms aimed at reorienting growth toward the tradable sector, boosting employment and competitiveness, and improving the business environment.

New York: While assistance is being provided to hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis affected by what has been called their country's worst flooding in living memory, the United Nations humanitarian wing says the relief operation needs to be massively scaled up.

New York: A painting warning of the dangers of pollution by a teenager from Hong Kong, China, beat out hundreds of thousands of entries from around the world to win this year's United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) painting competition, it was announced today.

New York: The International Year of Youth kicked off today with calls from United Nations officials to harness the talents and energy of the world's young people to promote better understanding and dialogue between different generations, cultures and religions.