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Parliament on Wednesday elected Economy Minister Doris Leuthard as Switzerland's head of state for 2010, marking the first time that women will head all three main arms of the federal government.

True to its professed policy for inclusive development of India ensuring equitable growth, development and prosperity of all people and regions, the Prime Minister's New 15 Point Programme launched by the UPA Government aims at ensuring that benefits of the development programmes flow equitably to the minorities.

WASHINGTON — The global financial crisis is having a devastating impact on families in emerging Europe and Central Asia, with the risk of the region giving back a fifth of the poverty reduction gains of the past decade, according to a new World Bank report.

WASHINGTON - The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a US$200 million Development Policy Loan (DPL) to the Republic of Belarus to support the Government's economic program aimed at addressing the social impact of the financial crisis and advancing reforms to help enable a sustained economic recovery.

WTO ministers ended their two-and-a-half-day Geneva conference on 2 December 2009 having declared that they want to try to conclude the Doha Round talks quickly and agreeing to extend “moratoriums” on electronic commerce and intellectual property.

Multimedia scenario in India was never so good and competitive as it has been today. With mushrooming growth in the media world, people of India have emerged masters in the choice of the TV channels, be it the news or entertainment ones. Same is the case with the print media. Major area of growth in the print media has been in the area of magazines and journals following a liberalized Foreign Direct Investment regime in vogue.

Despite a dedicated Union Ministry of Women and Child Development having been created by the UPA Government for all round development of women in the form of a plethora of measures taken to bring women closer to complete legal equality, gender budgeting and initiation of programmes for their greater inclusion in all walks of life, women of India continue to be exploited in all spheres of activities.

New Delhi: With reports suggesting that China was building over two dozen new airstrips along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the govt has said there was no need to be 'unnecessarily' worried as India was adequately strengthening itself.

New Delhi: Several references regarding illegal payments to the officials in India have been made in the US report on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and Anti-corruption Enforcement for the second half of 2008 and early part of 2009.