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An independent United Nations human rights expert proposed a set of measures today to guide large-scale international land purchases, known as “land grabbing,” ahead of upcoming negotiations by the “Group of Eight” (G8) industrialized nations on responsible investment in agriculture.

The global financial crisis has hit the world's poor and hungry - and their situation is set to get even worse, according to a new study by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).

MANILA, PHILIPPINES: Nepal's efforts to accelerate economic growth and reduce poverty are being hampered by political instability, poor infrastructure, and other critical obstacles, a new study has found.

BHOPAL: Generally, officers are punished for non-performance. But Sanjana Jain, Deputy Collector of Dewas in Madhya Pradesh, has been punished for performance. She was punished for carrying out the orders of the Collector. And the Collector had asked Sanjana to raid shops on the specific instructions of Mr. Gauri Shankar Bisen, state minister for co-operation.

The first session of the 15th Lok Sabha ended in a peaceful note this week with the winners and losers taking it in their stride.

When election results came in, the first reaction was that the last hurdle in the way of the PM's economic agenda has finally been cleared. The 'obstructionist' Left has been pushed into irrelevance. We had instant graphics of the pending liberalization schedule like disinvestment in PSUs and raise in FDI cap.

Asian Debelopment Bank (ADB) will scale up assistance to India for its infrastructural development and is currently discussing with the government for additional and targeted assistance to address the impact of the financial crisis.

The champions of the theory of public sector disinvestment are in for a shock. Both the Prime Minister and Finance Minister have decided to go slow on this. They are willing to consider other conventional and non-conventional options to contain fiscal deficit.

Political India, shaken to the core by the 2009 electoral verdict, will not easily settle down reckoning with the dramatic shifts in power base. BJP, the worst to suffer, and the Left, shattered in its dream of creating a third force, go through agonizing introspections, not without a good deal of internal wrangles and fault-finding for failed strategy.

Nigerian Government Drug Regulatory Authority (NAFDAC) has reported about the detention of a large consignment of fake anti-malarial generic pharmaceuticals labelled “Made in India” but produced in China. After a laboratory analysis by NAFDAC, the drugs have been found to be fake and had it not been intercepted, about 642000 adults would have been affected.