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New Delhi: Government of India has constituted the a Committee to hold wide ranging consultations with all sections of the people and all political parties and groups in Andhra Pradesh to sort out the issues relating to unrest over Tenlengana issue.

New York: The United Nations has taken no position on next year's referendum on independence for southern Sudan, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon underscored as he refuted recent media reports to the contrary.

New York: Some of the world's biggest emitters of carbon dioxide have formally submitted to the United Nations their national targets to cut and limit greenhouse gases by 2020 - abiding by the 31 January deadline specified in the Copenhagen Accord produced at December's UN summit in Denmark.

New York: The parties in the dispute over the status of Western Sahara, where fighting broke out between Morocco and the Frente Polisario after Spain's colonial administration ended in 1976, have agreed to a United Nations proposal to hold their next set of informal talks next week in the United States.

New York: Despite the commitment shown by Ecuador to eliminate child labour, the scourge remains a major obstacle to the country's development efforts, said an independent United Nations human rights expert.

New York: The United Nations refugee agency reported that a sharp rise in violence in Somalia in January left nearly 260 civilians dead, in addition to uprooting over 80,000 and causing widespread destruction.

New Delhi: The landlocked Laos has invited Indian investments in food processing, mining, hydropower, consumer items and tourism industry citing its growing connectivity in the Greater Mekong Sub-regional Economic Zone, through the East-West Economic Corridor and North-South Economic Corridor. Both these corridors would pass through Laos.

New Delhi: Now we have one more report of the Task force for the development and promotion of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). We have already over a dozen such reports. The question is whether the present recommendations would work. The answer is given in the report itself - 'None of these measures will work unless their implementation status is monitored regularly at the highest level [at Prime Minister's level].'

The world's dirtiest industries like oil, coal, automobiles, chemicals, cement and steel, and their supporters in the climate change-deniers' lobby, must feel elated at recent developments which detract from the agenda of fighting climate change.

Fascism, like communism, devours its own children. It is apparently the fate of all violent doctrines that the fury unleashed by them against perceived aliens acts like a boomerang to target their own followers. Thus, we see the strange spectacle of the Hindutva camp, which was so untied in its opposition to the minorities, is now bitterly divided in Maharashtra with the RSS pitted against the Shiv Sena and the MNS.