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In Lahore, Pakistan, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) launched today the IMF Youth Dialogue, a series of roundtable discussions with university students across the Middle East, Pakistan, and North Africa.

New York: Under a new United Nations-backed initiative launched today, cities in Asia and the Pacific, which are dealing with ever-increasing heaps of waste, will be able to transform 'trash into cash.'

New York: A United States attorney, who leads the prosecution against former Liberian president Charles Taylor, has been named by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as the new Prosecutor of the United Nations-backed tribunal trying the worst acts committed during the decade-long brutal civil war in Sierra Leone.

Director-General of WTO Pascal Lamy, in his report on the state of play in the Doha Round to the General Council on 22 February 2010, said that “although some progress is taking place, gaps remain”. He suggested that the stocktaking at the end of March be undertaken by senior officials, adding that “the Geneva process remains ready to translate political movement into concrete and substantive progress”.

New Delhi: World Bank assisted projects, both IBRD (International Bank for Reconstruction & Development) and IDA (International Development Association), will be reviewed at Bhubaneswar on 24th & 25th February, 2010. This is the first time that the World Bank assisted projects are being reviewed outside Delhi. The State Government of Orissa is offering necessary assistance for the review. Such residential review helps in getting focused attention, encourages cross learning and sharing of best practices.

Issues related to environmental hazards posed by plastic waste have been assessed by several committees. The problem created by the use of plastics bags is primarily due to shortcomings in the waste management system.

New Delhi: The third meeting of reconstituted Central Employment Guarantee Council held under the chairmanship of Union Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Dr. C.P. Joshi at Unnati, Krishi Bhawan in New Delhi today took stock of the progress made under the Mahatma Gandhi NREGA. The earlier two meetings were held on August 19 and October 7, 2009 respectively.

New Delhi: Government's intention is amply clear. It would do little to contain the rising prices of essential commodities. It is only interested in fostering a GDP growth rate at over 7% in the current year.

New Delhi: Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) of Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has launched a Scheme to provide sufficient back-haul capacity to integrate the voice and data traffic from the access network in the rural areas to their core network by strengthening the OFC network. This scheme considers OFC Network augmentation between the Blocks' HQ and Districts' HQ to begin with.

New Delhi: In a first ever display of its precision strike capability by night, a mammoth fire power demonstration (FPD), codenamed 'Vayu Shakti-2010', showcasing the operational capabilities of IAF by day, dusk and night will be held at the sprawling Chandan Air-to-Ground Range, Pokharan on February 28.