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The States always look up for proper devolution of taxes and grants at the periodically established Finance Commission. This is so since the core tasks of the Commission pertains to the sharing of central taxes with the states and central grants to states.

New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today approved, in order to meet the shortage of nurses, setting up of 132 Auxiliary Nursing and Midwifery (ANM) Schools under the Scheme of Upgradation / Strengthening of Nursing Services (Human Resource for Health) in the high focus states like Bihar, Chattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, North Eastern States, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and other districts in the country preferably which do not have Auxiliary Nursing and Midwifery schools.

New Delhi: Shri Anand Sharma, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Government of India and Mr Karel De Gucht, the European Trade Commissioner discussed the progress on the ongoing negotions for the India-EU Broad based Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA) and agreed to give it the necessary impetus for completion within 2010.

Should the Congress be worried about the growing opposition unity? How will it overcome the combined attack and their aggressive posture in the Budget session? Opposition unity could be a short-term affair because everyone knows that the UPA 2 is a stable government and will last its full term. But that does not mean that the pinpricks will disappear.

New York: China has overtaken Japan as the world's second largest industrial manufacturer, after the United States, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has announced.

NAIROBI - On the margins of the annual Africa Carbon Forum, a new initiative to bring environmental and financial benefits to local communities in the impoverished highlands of Ethiopia was announced here.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - The Government of Guyana, supported by the World Bank, will benefit from an assessment aiming to evaluate the risks faced by the agriculture sector, particularly those affecting the rice supply chain, and the feasibility of agriculture risk transfer and insurance solutions for the sector as a whole.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Nursing shortages across the English-speaking Caribbean limit access and quality of health services and affect the region's competiveness, says a new World Bank report.

New York: The well-being of nearly one billion migrant workers is made worse by poor access to health care, poverty and exploitative work conditions, according to the United Nations health agency which kicked off a conference on the issue in Madrid.