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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued a public information notice in which it was said that Executive Board had agreed to the implementation plan in response to Board-endorsed recommendations arising from the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) evaluation of IMF Involvement in International Trade Policy Issues.

New Delhi: India is likely to discuss bilateral cooperation in energy sector with Norway and Australia as the foreign ministers of both these nations are on official visits here.

New Delhi: The profit of Profit making CPSEs went up from Rs.91571 crore in 2007-08 to Rs. 98652 crore in 2008-09. The loss of loss making CPSEs went up from Rs.10257 crore in 2007-08 to Rs. 14424 crore in 2008-09.

New Delhi: Minority communities in India in general and muslim community in particular have got increased budgetary grants in Budget 2010-11. They have been assured even more in the next years to come.

New Delhi: The Tourism and Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister Kumari Selja has said that her Ministry has identified 29 mega destinations/circuits on the basis of footfalls and their future potential for tourism projects.

New Delhi: The Capital is all set to host Military musicians and cultural troupes of six Armies. The itinerary includes performances by world class musicians of The Royal EME (UK), The French Army, The Sri Lankan Army, The Bangladesh Army and The Nepalese Army apart from Bands of the Indian Army, Indian Air Force and Indian Navy.

Overwhelming evidence has now emerged that Israel's notorious secret service Mossad assassinated commander Mahmoud al-Mabhough of the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas in a Dubai hotel on January 20. If the London Sunday Times is to be believed, the plot to send a Mossad hit squad to eliminate al-Mabhough was approved by none other than Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

The suspicion voiced by Indian sources that the Pakistan foreign secretary, Salman Bashir, took his orders from the army has been substantiated by a member of an American think tank. According to Daniel Markey, a senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, Bashir's “prickliness” at the press conference after his talks with his Indian counterpart, Nirupama Rao, sounded “a lot like what we have traditionally got out of the Pakistan army”.

New York, Mar 1 2010 10:10AM
The massive earthquake which struck Chile on Saturday has severely disrupted health services, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has reported, dispatching a disaster management expert to the South American nation to assist in the aftermath of the catastrophe.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Building on improved prospects for the global economy, most Pacific island economies are expected to perform slightly better in 2010 than in 2009, according to a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) publication.