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New York: A top United Nations official has called for a new culture of “intellectual social responsibility” to take education beyond the classroom to the search for real solutions to real problems, with the academic and educational sector pooling its knowledge for the global public good.

New York: With over 5,000 casualties last year from landmines that continue to indiscriminately kill and maim decades after they are laid, two senior United Nations officials today warned that, despite significant progress in ridding the world of these explosive devices, much more needs to be done.

New York: Despite the encouraging commitments by the Kyrgyz Government, women and girls are increasingly vulnerable to violence, exploitation and destitution, an independent United Nations human rights expert said today following her first mission to the country.

New York: The United Nations human rights chief has called on judges across South Asia to ensure that everyone has access to justice, as part of efforts to combat the scourges of inequality and discrimination.

New York: The largest-ever mass vaccination campaign protecting populations from the dangerously infectious yellow fever disease will begin next week across three West African countries, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has announced.

The October 2009 blaze in the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) depot spanning over ten days in the outskirt of Jaipur (Rajasthan) in which 12 persons lost their lives and several got injured, which caused massive damages to the environment in the surroundings including harm to human health and properties, has once again brought on the fore the need for enacting a law of tort to deal with negligence or human failure by the state, organisations and individual professionals for their negligence in performing their legitimate duties in pursuance of Article 300 of the Constitution of India.

The Bharatiya Janata Party's national leadership could not have cut a sorrier figure than it did with its abysmally inept handling of the latest political crisis in Karnataka, which very nearly brought down the only government the party heads in all of South India.

When even unabashed opportunism fails to help a politician, he is clearly at the end of his tether. Kalyan Singh's present condition is not unlike that of Trishanku as he remains suspended in midair between the Samajwadi Party and the BJP in U.P. At present, neither will accept him. The former chief minister has proved to be so undependable even in a country where defection is regarded as something of an art that one can only feel sorry for the ignominious way in which his career is ending.