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KOLKATA: Two recent developments have brightened the prospects of a permanent and enduring peace in the country's north-eastern region which has continued to be plagued by one armed insurgency or another for nearly half a century.

New Delhi: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international body, which develops standards to ensure web accessibility to all, will have its conference in New Delhi on May 6th-7th, 2010.

New Delhi: The Standing committee on Urban Development has invited suggestions on 'the Constitution (one Hundred and Twelfth Amendment) Bill,2009 for 50 per cent reservation in Urban Local Bodies.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is giving further assistance to an ongoing Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) technical assistance project designed to give civil servants the skills to manage and promote regional cooperation and integration activities.

New Delhi: Indian Railways has claimed that it has enhanced security of passengers in trains. However, record shows that crimes committed on trains are increasing year by year.

New Delhi: So far, 135 sites have been entrusted to the Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA) of Ministry of Railways for development of vacant railway land.

New Delhi: Indian Railways has formed a joint venture company 'Bhartiya Rail Bijlee Company' with National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) to set up a captive power plant of 1000 MW capacity at Nabinagar in Aurangabad District of Bihar.

New York: The United Nations mission in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) is closely monitoring efforts to establish a government - including an independent electoral commission - and to resume plans for long-awaited elections in the West African country, where a political crisis following the dissolution of the government last month sparked deadly street protests.

New York: Bioethics increasingly has implications for many areas of people's lives and it is important to identify common ground around which controversial discussions can take place, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told hundreds of students in New York.

New York: The top United Nations humanitarian official today called for “radical” changes in Israeli policies towards the occupied Palestinian territory to allow people to carry out normal and dignified lives.