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New York: Information and communication technology (ICT) projects are helping countries make significant progress towards the globally agreed anti-poverty targets world leaders have pledged to achieve by 2015, according to a United Nations report.

New York: Human rights defenders in Mexico are under increasing threat, a group of independent United Nations experts cautioned, speaking out against the recent killings of two defenders in the country's southeast.

New York: With more than 200 million children around the world working at the expense of their future, a new United Nations-backed action plan seeks to ramp up global action to stamp out the scourge by 2016.

The Executive Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has observed that Tonga has been hit hard by the global crisis. The authorities' accommodative monetary and fiscal policy stances together with support from donor helped provide some relief and set conditions for a turnaround in the year ahead. Growth is expected to reach 1¾ percent in FY2010/11, on the back of increased construction activity, tourism, and remittances. However, near-term risks are the downside and relate to the strength of the global recovery and world commodity and food prices.

Paris/Washington - The world's largest public environmental fund, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), received a record boost from donor countries with more than 30 nations pledging $4.25 billion in what will be the first significant multilateral step toward the commitments in Copenhagen on climate change and in other key international environmental agreements. The $4.25 billion pledged for the next four years is the largest ever increase in funding for the GEF.

WASHINGTON ― The World Bank has approved US$12.1 million of Additional Financing for the FYR Macedonia Real Estate Cadastre and Registration Project (RECRP). The Additional Financing will help the government continue its reforms in real estate cadastre and build on the excellent results achieved.

New York: The top United Nations envoy to Afghanistan has sounded the alarm over the illnesses of girls attending schools in parts of the country, allegedly due to chemical contaminants.

BHOPAL: It was not that anybody was under any illusion vis-a-vis the status of Dalits in the society in Madhya Pradesh but it still came as a shock when a local English daily reported that Dalits were not allowed to enter the temples or draw water from the public wells and ponds in the Chief Minister's ancestral village. The official machinery got cracking and managed to extract a denial from the Dalits of the village that they were not subjected to any discrimination. But the proverbial cat was out of the bag.

LUCKNOW: The Congress is taking advantage of tussle between Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh to take support for UPA-2 whenever the alliance is in trouble.

Mastering technology and production of heavy water - the key material indispensable in operations of India's indigenous nuclear reactor system, the pressurized heavy water reactor - is a complex scientific and engineering assignment not many countries can tackle. Yet India had to meet this challenge, for heavy water is the mainstay of India's nuclear power programme, valuable also in areas of industrial build up. The results are astounding - a veritable miracle is unfolding.