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For nearly two and a half years, Roselidah Ondeko has been at work in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), helping local women find their voices to speak out about the epidemic of gender-based sexual and physical violence in the region.

New York: Hunger rates are most severe in the western regions of Nepal, which already ranks near the bottom of the global hunger index, according to a new report by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), which is examining food insecurity levels within the South Asian nation.

With a view to bridge its trade deficit with India and to benefit from the positive spillover effects from its economically resurgent neighbour, Nepal on Wednesday invited Indian investments in hydropower, roads, bridges, infrastructure, construction materials, tourism industry, agro processing, education, IT, light manufacturing, health and financial services.

There is no mistaking it. Despite some ifs and buts, India and China, the 'giants of Asia', are emerging the favourites of the twenty-first century. Like America was for the twentieth century, termed as the American century; and the nineteenth century belonged to Europe. The swing towards Asia is becoming pronounced now, and the present vista makes the 21st century look as the Asian century, the India-China century.

JAIPUR: The Gehlot government has refused to implement a controversial order of the erstwhile Vasundhara Raje regime.

New York: With access to water becoming more challenging every year due to rising demand and unreliable supplies, global experts are meeting in Stockholm this week in a United Nations-backed forum aimed at tackling the adverse impact on poverty, health, education, gender equality and the environment.

The concept of incentive prices for farm commodities was related to the cost of their production plus a reasonable margin of profit for the producer. This was of great importance for protecting the interest of the farmer as well as the consumer in conditions of comparative scarcity and pressure on prices of basic wage goods - in the market. But subsequently, as the concept of incentive price began to be related to what is called parity of price between farm produce and industrial manufactures and further on export prices, support prices fixed by the government, a position has arisen in which the gains of production and productivity in agriculture have tended not to be shared by the producer with the consumer and over all development of agriculture.

The BJP faces problems from several directions. Its most popular leader, Atal Behari Vajpayee, has retired from public life while its second most popular leader, L.K. Advani, is widely seen to be too old to provide inspirational guidance after two successive defeats in general elections.

While FDI inflows have made important contribution to the rapid industrialization and growth of developing Asia in the past, the region has now itself become an increasingly significant source of FDI. Part of this transformation has to do with the growing relative weight of the region in the global economy and the emergence of globally competitive companies with the willingness and capacity to venture abroad.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is extending $100 million in loans to India's Mizoram state for public sector financial reforms designed to improve the state government's finances and strengthen service delivery.