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NEW DELHI: The Houses of Business and Industry have expressed satisfaction at the Budget 2010-11. They are relieved that Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has largely retained the stimulus package, which had enabled them to face the global crisis and slowdown.

BHOPAL: The National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research (NITTTR) has decided to offer courses in Management, i.e., MBA from the next session. The Institute, based in Bhopal, has been pioneering technological education for the last 30 years and its forays into the management education have been necessitated by the new environment, which requires managerial education as well as technical education. The Institute is waiting for the approval of the All India Council of Technical Education.

Yet another phase commences in the volatile US-Pak relationship which has gone through such wild swings as few other nations have witnessed.

New York: A new United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) scheme seeks to enhance literacy and empower marginalized people in rural areas of Nepal, where less than half of the population can read.

New York: After a week of intensive discussions and six weeks of preparation, a draft international agreement on access to the Earth's genetic resources and the fair and equitable share in benefits from their use has been finalized at a United Nations meeting in Cali, Colombia.

New York: Nine orphan gorillas will start new lives in a nature reserve in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), thanks to assistance from peacekeepers serving with the United Nations mission in the country, known as MONUC.

New York: The El Niño weather pattern - blamed for this year's heavy snows in the United States and a long-running drought in Australia - has peaked, but is expected to influence climate patterns worldwide until mid-year before dying out, the United Nations weather agency has said.

New York: Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders have expressed their appreciation of United Nations efforts to reunite the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, saying important progress had been made in recent talks between the two sides.

New York: The presentation of the report of the independent United Nations probe looking into the facts and circumstances of the December 2007 assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, which had been scheduled for 30th March 2010, has been delayed until 15 April at the request of the country's President.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has discussed a report prepared by the staffs of the IMF and the World Bank on “Implementation of the Joint Management Action Plan on Bank-Fund Collaboration.”