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What does the crystal ball say about the year 2010? It will mark the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century and a whole lot of exciting things await India in the New Year.

New York: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been speaking to numerous world leaders on the heels of the historic United Nations conference in Copenhagen which recently wrapped up with nations reaching a political agreement on climate change.

New York: Child neglect and abuse, subjects that were long hidden behind closed doors in the traditional society of the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives, are now being dealt with thanks to a United Nations-backed social services programme.

New York: A growing understanding of the role of family planning and the spread of contraception use resulting from greater access to reproductive healthcare is helping to save lives in Guinea-Bissau, according to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

New York: Expressing her shock at the recent uptick in deadly violence in Iran, the top United Nations human rights official called on the nation's Government to rein in its security forces.

New York: Britain's renowned “Curry King” has been giving poor refugee women in Bangladesh lessons on concocting nutritious dishes using United Nations food rations along with locally grown fruit and vegetables.

New Delhi: Department of Consumer Affairs is formulating a National Consumer Policy to ensure a structural framework for protection of consumers and their welfare.

KOLKATA: Both the ruling Left Front and the Trinamool Congress seem more keen on scoring political points rather than set up an industry at Singur, where the Tata group could not put up its small car plant in 2008.

At the start of the second decade of the 21st century, the outlook is one of a global economy struggling to recover from the worst recession since l930s, heightening of political tensions with unresolved crises across regions, and an intensification of the war to defeat international terrorism with its epicentre currently in Pakistan-Afghanistan.

New York: The moderate impact of the H1N1 pandemic is the “best possible health news of the decade,” but the head of the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) warned that more people - particularly in the southern hemisphere - could become sick this season and that it would be premature to say the health risk is over.