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New York: Making use of the latest information and communication technology (ICT) and innovation can help countries expand educational opportunities for all in a way that also advances development, a senior United Nations official said today.

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is now banking upon “new world leaders” to help in the successful conclusion of the Doha Round.

The number 13 may be considered unlucky. But for the Congress and the NCP, it has turned out to be a lucky number. Elections to the State Assembly are scheduled for October 13. It remains to be seen whether the number will prove lucky again as the previous Assembly polls were also held on the same day.

New York: Efforts to fight climate change can receive a boost from stepped-up investment in restoring and maintaining the world's multi-trillion dollar ecosystems, ranging from forests to wetlands to river basins, according to a study backed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

New York: Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has slumped for the second year, according to a United Nations report released today, which warns that huge, hidden stashes of the illicit drug are a “ticking bomb” in the country responsible for producing almost all of the world's opium.

The United Nations has called for re-inventing growth patterns and low carbon economies and has recognized the right of developing countries for rapid economic growth Investment push, particularly by the governments. coupled with technology transfer can help ushering in of low carbon economy in the Third World, it suggested.

NEW DELHI: Indian healthcare industry is poised for a big growth in its business as the patients from the developed countries as also the developing countries are looking to India for quality medical treatment at low costs. The number of such foreign patients is already on the increase in the leading specialty hospitals of the country, and the industry sources confirm that this trend will lead to high foreign exchange earnings by the country in the coming years.

KOLKATA: Communist Party of India (Marxist) has been facing a crisis of identity for reasons that the top brass of A K Gopalan Bhavan, national headquarters of India's largest Leftist formation, failed to envision but now it has to confront the rock that the party bosses finds extremely difficult to cross over.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Melting Himalayan glaciers and other climate change impacts pose a direct threat to the water and food security of more than 1.6 billion people in South Asia, according to preliminary findings of a new study financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

New York: The Philippines has become only the second country in the world to be formally designated as a transit country for at-risk refugees on their way to resettlement elsewhere under an agreement reached by the United Nations and the Asian nation.