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New York: Ethnic tensions and rumours of impending violence persist in Kyrgyzstan, and refugees and displaced persons who have started to return home after the deadly clashes earlier this month must be given a guarantee of safety, a senior United Nations official told the Security Council.

New York: As major economies continue to cope with the global financial crisis, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged businesses to think differently about how and where they devote resources, stressing the importance of investing in developing nations to promote global growth.

New York: The Security Council has urged Burundi's political parties to participate fully in the country's legislative elections next month, and work to ensure the proper conduct of the presidential poll scheduled for Monday, amid reports that the opposition is boycotting the presidential contest.

At the meeting of the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) on 22 June 2010, the US blocked Indonesia's first-time request for a panel to examine its complaint concerning US measures on clove cigarettes.

New York: The top United Nations refugee official has wrapped up a visit to Lebanon by urging authorities to improve conditions for refugees living there, while urging the governments in Iraq and elsewhere to create conditions so that the displaced can return to their homelands.

New Delhi: India's first indigenous Naval Light Combat Aircraft, the LCA (Navy) NP1 is scheduled to Roll out from HAL Aircraft Research and Design Centre (ARDC) design hangar on 06th of next month. It will be an important milestone for the prestigious Naval Program of Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), Bangalore. The Chief of The Naval Staff Admiral Nirmal Verma would be the Chief Guest at the function.

New York: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, which will highlight the role played by the legal environment in facilitating or hindering universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support.

New York: The top United Nations envoy in Afghanistan today voiced discontent with the process of vetting candidates ahead of September's parliamentary elections, stating that it has not produced a satisfactory result.

New York: The world continues to make advances towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), despite the global economic downturn, but the rate of improvement remains too slow and countries must step up their efforts if the MDGs are to be achieved by their target date of 2015, a new United Nations report says.

New Delhi: Today, 42% of our [Indian] children below 5 years are under weight and 69.5% children are anemic. 22% of babies are born with low birth weight. 35.6% women aged 15 - 49 years have low body mass index and 55% are anemic. Though there has been improvement in underweight children from 42.7% in 1988-99 (NFHS-II) to 40.4% in 2005-06 (NFHS-III). Further, in respect of anemia, there has been an increase from 74.3% (NFHS-II) to 78.9% (NFHS-III) in children below 3 years and from 51.8 % to 56.2% in women aged 15-49 years.