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New Delhi: The day-long State Information Ministers Conference (SIMCON) ended here on Saturday with aconsensus among states on the need for having an independent, autonomous and credible regulator for broadcast issues. However, some stakeholders felt that a regulator imposed by the Government may not be the ideal solution as it could prove to be a double-edged weapon.

Russia and the United States agreed with each other to maintain the provisions of a major cold war era nuclear arms control treaty, ahead of its expiry today. Both the countries also declared their intentions in this regard.

New Delhi: K V Prasad was elected to the post of the President of Press Association, the body of journalists accredited to the Press Information Bureau, Government of India, while Rajeev Ranjan Nag was re-elected as General Secretary in the election held today at the Press Club of India.

'Weak PM', BJP's prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani's main campaign plank in May, 2009, has a rather quirk irony. The blitzkrieg had actually come at a time when Manmohan Singh was at his powerful best and at the peak of his glory.

The visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the USA has found coverage in the media more for its glitter than substance. President Obama in fact, seems to have been reticent unlike his expensive style in the exposition on policy issues and was content to give only bald assurances to set at rest misgivings of the ruling elite and media in India on his visit to China. What he emphasised was that India-US relationship developed under the regime of President Bush has remained unchanged. This too satisfied Mr. Manmohan Singh fully.

KOLKATA: Back to the basics: that was the message from CPI(M) Secretary Prakash Karat to his beleaguered West Bengal CPI(M) during the party's recent state committee meeting in Kolkata.

New York: Acclaimed actor and filmmaker Nicolas Cage, whose action roles have included both a contract killer and a federal anti-terrorist agent, stepped into the world of real crime tonight when he was named Goodwill Ambassador for Global Justice for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

New York: The United Nations agency entrusted with accelerating sustainable industrial development in poorer states pledged to help the world's 49 least developed countries (LDCs), 33 of them in Africa, to withstand global financial crisis.