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Shri Anand Sharma, Minister for Commerce and Industry, who is leading a 15-member high-level CEO delegation to Malaysia, while calling on the Malaysian Prime Minister Mohd Najib Tun Razak held wide ranging discussions on issues of shared bilateral interest. The Malaysian Prime Minister expressed a strong wish for an early conclusion of Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) with India.

The status of women in India has been undergoing a sea-change. Supported by Constitutional guarantees to ensure dignity and equal opportunities, their active participation in all walks of life including education, politics, sport etc., has been growing. Taking note of women's role in the nation-building activities, the Government had declared 2001 as the year of Women's Empowerment by adopting a National Policy to offer “Swashakti” to women. Several laws have also been adopted to empower women socially, economically, legally and politically. Considering the role of rural India, the country's backbone, the Government had taken several measures to strengthen Pachayanti Raj system with the active participation of women. This gave a boost to increase the number of women being elected to the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies, an indication to suggest their political empowerment.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A confrontation is brewing over the much-hyped up Smart City project, Kochi, which could change the Information Technology face of Kerala.

KOLKATA: There is mounting concern in Northeastern states and Bangladesh over the Centre's decision to build over 700 big and small dams on the Brahmaputra, Kameng and other rivers in Arunachal Pradesh, to boost power generation from the region.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Asia's rebounding economies must boost investment in agriculture in order to tackle widespread hunger and cushion billions of people from future spikes in food prices, main speakers at a food security forum at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said today.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has welcomed the G-20's recent commitment to ensure a robust replenishment of the African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional window of the Group.

Vienna, Austria — Overly restrictive and obsolete laws are an impediment to foreign direct investment and their poor implementation creates additional costs to investment, finds Investing Across Borders 2010, a new report by the World Bank Group.

WASHINGTON —The World Bank committed a record $3.8 billion in fiscal year 2010 (July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010), to support the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) as they recover from the financial crisis.

WASHINGTON, DC - The World Bank Board of Executive Directors have approved two new loans to the People's Republic of China to support two projects - $200 million for the Huai River Basin Flood Management and Drainage Improvement Project and $60 million for the Yunnan Urban Environment Project II.

WASHINGTON, DC - The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors have approved a loan of US$100 million to the People's Republic of China to promote integrated forestry development in five provinces of China.