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New York: A Security Council committee has removed five men from the United Nations list of those subject to sanctions in connection with Al-Qaida and the Taliban, including a former foreign minister of the ousted Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund today completed the sixth and final review under Haiti's Extended Credit Facility and approved an SDR 65.5 million (equivalent to about US$102 million) augmentation to the facility, that will help Haiti cope with the aftermath of the massive and disastrous earthquake that struck the country on January 12, 2010.

New York: The mounting number of jobless people around the world has climbed to an historic high with nearly 212 million unemployed last year - or 6.6 per cent of the global workforce - and the situation in Europe is likely to worsen before it gets better, according to a new United Nations report.

New York: Top UN officials have stressed the importance of sharing the stories of the men, women and children who survived Nazi death camps as a way to encourage respect for diversity and human rights.

The Whitepaper on Indian Railways, which is the fourth in the series though with a changed name, is in line with the Indian Railways status paper first issued by the then Union Minister of Railways George Fernandes in 1990 followed by second and third such status papers by Nitish Kumar in his two tenures as the Union Minister of Railways during the NDA Government.

New Delhi: No one knows for sure what happened to the Indian Railways Technology Mission on Fog, launched more than a decade before! The Lucknow based R & D unit of Indian Railways, Research, Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO) has been seized of the problems that the railways have to face every year during the foggy winter in Northern India.

New Delhi: “Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by inferior”, a famous quote from George Bernard Shaw, sums up rightly the Padma Awards of 2010, announced by the Government of India on the eve of the 61st Republic Day.

Nagpur: Farmers under the leadership of the Maharshtra state unit of Bharatiya Krishak Samaj (Indian Farmers' Organisation) today intercepted the Union environment minister, Jairam Ramesh while he was on his way to preside over the public consultation on Bt brinjal and shouted slogans against the proposed introduction of Bt brinjal.

New Delhi: Ministry of Home, Govt of India, has clarified today that there was nothing wrong in conferring Padma Bhushan award on Shri Sant Singh Chatwal who was accused in various criminal cases in the past.

New Delhi: The Ministry of Civil Aviation has no move afoot for the AI-IA demerger. The merger was a carefully thoughtout process and a collective decision of all agencies of the Government of India.