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New York: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for calm in Togo, where the provisional results of the 4 March presidential election were announced on Saturday, and for any grievances to be resolved through the proper channels.

The Nitin Gadkari era in BJP has arrived. Even its worst critics will have to concede the enormous changes in BJP's political atmospherics and its domino effects on its decision-making style and inter-personal relationship. Gadkari is the one BJP president with delegated authority straight from the RSS chief. Murli Manohar Joshi and Rajnath Singh lacked this direct patronage.

The Finance Minister, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee is widely regarded in the Congress party as its most dependable trouble-shooter. But the Budget 2010-11 he has presented is a palpably dangerous short cut to market-friendly growth and may pose problems for the Congress-led ruling coalition. Mr. Mukherjee has failed to come up with meaningful policy options to ensure steady sustainable development of the economy.

LUCKNOW: The latest actions by the Congress high command may weaken the party in the State and its president Rita Bahuguna Joshi.

New York: The first group of United Nations troops could leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by the end of June, as requested by the Government, the world body's top peacekeeping official said today following a visit to the country.

New York: The United Nations has appointed a group of independent experts to advise on ways to better protect women in conflict situations, and to ensure that their voices are heard in peace processes and that they are included in post-conflict reconstruction and governance structures.

New York: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon marked the 40th anniversary of the entry into force of the United Nations-backed Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which forms the foundation of the world's nuclear non-proliferation regime.

New York: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has repeated his call for ending all forms of discrimination against women and girls, stressing the need for not only effective laws and policies but also women who can serve as examples of empowerment to those around them.

Strong terms of trade, an insulated financial sector, and effective implementation of sound policy frameworks left Papua New Guinea well positioned at the onset of the global financial crisis. As a result, growth slowed only modestly. Recently, however, policy implementation has weakened as spending in 2009 from accumulated above-normal mineral revenue was far above the limit set out in the Medium-Term Fiscal Strategy (MTFS).

New York: The United Nations, together with the Guatemalan Government and aid partners, today launched a $34 million appeal to counter food shortages affecting 2.7 million people living in the Central American country's so-called 'dry corridor,' which even before last year's drought had one of the highest rates of chronic malnutrition in the world.