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Yahoo India, has named AICC General secretary Rahul Gandhi as the most popular newsmaker of India in 2009. This was based on the number of clicks registered for a specific news story pertaining to him. This week the CNN- IBN has declared the young scion of the Nehru- Gandhi family as the politician of the year. India TV too has chosen him as the politician of the year.

New York: The Security Council imposed arms and travel sanctions on Eritrea for supporting insurgents trying to topple the nascent government in nearby Somalia.

New York: The United Nations refugee agency laid out its strategy today to combat xenophobia and racism, which it says triggers flight and can jeopardize its work to protect asylum-seekers, refugees and the stateless.

At the beginning of the year2010, the Indian government has planned to woo its diaspora spread across to globe into the mainstream of its emerging economy. A three-day redesigned gala event - 8th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas - is being organised by the Union Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs in partnership with the Delhi government and the Confederation of Indian Industry from January 7.

Consumer Affairs today encompass all aspects of consumer welfare and has been Internationally recognized in recent times. Consumer is considered as an inevitable part of the socio-economic-political system, where the exchange initiated and transaction realised between two parties, namely buyers and sellers has an impact on a third party i.e., society.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a private-sector loan of up to $120 million to build a plant to provide essential power to the central Visayas region of the Philippines.

NEW DELHI: India's universally appreciated employment generation scheme, unfolded under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 is in the process of being ruined by vested interests entrenched in the countryside.

LUCKNOW: The Health sector in Uttar Pradesh presents an extremely dismal scenario as health indicators compare unfavourably not only with the national average but also with some of the other poor states.

Devastation by floods is a recurrent annual phenomenon in India. Almost every year, some or the other part of the country is affected by floods. Floods cause enormous damage to life, property-public and private and disruptions to infrastructure, besides psychological and emotional distress among the people.

New Delhi: The Ministry of Railways has finalized the salient features of the first ever 'Yuva Trains' which are targeted mainly for the unemployed youths of the country. These new class of trains are to be introduced soon. Initially two separate weekly trains will be introduced as a pilot service between Mumbai to Delhi and Delhi to Kolkata. If successful it will be extended to other areas of the country.