View Articles

New Delhi: Modernization and upgradation of immigration services in the country is a Mission Mode Project (MMP) to be undertaken by the Ministry of Home Affairs under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP). The MMP is titled “Immigration, Visa and Foreigners Registration and Tracking (IVFRT)”. This Project aims to develop a secure and integrated service delivery framework to enhance security and facilitation in the Visa Issuance process, strengthen the Immigration function besides fortifying the Foreigners Registration Processes for effective tracking of foreigners.

Washington - The World Bank Group, six leading companies, and a national government announced plans to collaborate in support of a new eTransform Initiative. The initiative leverages the expertise of the public sector, the private sector, and academia to help developing countries use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) (e.g. telecom networks, computers and mobile phones), to improve lives and transform development efforts. Seed funding from the Korean Trust Fund on ICT for Development has made this initiative possible. The initial focus of the initiative is ICT for governance, in particular eProcurement. In a second phase the scope will broaden to include issues such as food security and climate change.

WASHINGTON —The global economic crisis has slowed the pace of poverty reduction in developing countries, and is hampering progress toward the other Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), says a new report from the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund. The crisis is having an impact in several key areas of the MDGs, including those related to hunger, child and maternal health, gender equality, access to clean water, and disease control and will continue to affect long-term development prospects well beyond 2015, says the Global Monitoring Report 2010: The MDGs after the Crisis.

In Developed countries Monetary policy which is unveiled by the central bank periodically is mainly aimed at keeping inflation low. In India as well as many other developing economies central banks have twin objective of controlling inflation and pushing growth.

Freedom to downsize workforce, increase work hours and curtail workers' right to join unions are some of the radical steps under the government's consideration for industries in special investment zones. Besides, units in the proposed National Manufacturing and Investment Zones (NMIZs) would be able to employ women in three shifts and would not be governed by the Contract Labour Abolition Act.

They are back — the valiant Third Front warriors who threatened to topple the Manmohan Singh government over the nuclear deal last year. After having lain low following the electoral reverses, it has taken the members of the motley combination some time to get back to their feet. But the government's latest troubles - over IPL, phone-tapping, anti-Maoist operations - have reignited their earlier ambition.

New York: The global intellectual property system must encourage innovation and creativity around the world and ensure that the benefits are accessible to all while protecting the attendant rights, the top United Nations official in the field said.

New York: South Africa - home to the one-sixth of the world's population living with HIV - unveiled an ambitious campaign to prevent and treat the virus, a move hailed by the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).

New York: As the food crisis in Niger worsens, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today it will more than double the number of hungry people it feeds despite its own funding gap.

New York: Marking the 24th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster - which exposed more than 8 million people in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia to radiation - , UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reiterated his commitment to reviving sections of the three nations still coping with the catastrophe.