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What is common between the British National Party which is making headlines in U.K and our own Shiv Sena? There are quite a few similarities between the two parties and their functioning although some might say that the BNP is a national party while the Sena is a regional party from a state in India.

KOLKATA: It may be a horrendous admission to make, but the sad truth is, it is the Maoists who are in control in parts of West Bengal. Both the ruling Left Front and the resurgent Trinamool Congress-led opposition are bent on carrying on with their self-destructive politics, even as they lose political space in physical terms.

Asia is rebounding rapidly from the depth of the global crisis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said today in its latest report on the region. According to the Regional Economic Outlook (REO) for Asia and the Pacific, released today in Seoul, Asia's growth is forecast to accelerate to 5¾ percent in 2010 from 2¾ percent in 2009, both higher than previously projected.

New York: Parliamentarians from some 115 countries pledged to promote sexual and reproductive health as well as women's rights to decide how and when they give birth, at a United Nations-backed gathering which wrapped up today.

New: Jerusalem must be the capital of two States - Israel and Palestine - living side-by-side in peace and security, with arrangements for the holy sites acceptable to all, if peace in the Middle East is to be achieved, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned today.

JAIPUIR: The social audit of the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme in Rajasthan has revealed attempts by big companies to sabotage it.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is offering big bonanza to the US companies active in the civilian nuclear power sector by introducing the Nuclear Liability Bill in the winter session of Parliament. This will facilitate the American companies to do more concrete follow-up actions for supplying equipment to the civilian nuclear power industry in India.

New York: Addressing five critical risk factors – underweight childhood, unsafe sex, alcohol use, lack of safe water, sanitation and hygiene, and high blood pressure – could add almost five years to global life expectancy, according to a new United Nations report.

Canadian house prices have increased significantly between 2003 and early 2008, with a marked downward trend since mid-2008, especially in the resource-rich western provinces, however, following recent declines, home prices are now generally close to equilibrium throughout Canada.

The United Nations has launched a pilot project to give food and other articles to Iraqi refugees living in Syria via mobile phone vouchers. This mobile phone based food voucher scheme of the World Food Programme (WFP) has, however, certain limitations because the people who do not yet possess a mobile phone set can not easily get even food easily.