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NEW DELHI: India is not agreeable, at the moment, to grant market economy status to China despite continuing requests by the Chinese Government to this effect.A thorough appraisal by the Commerce Ministry has come to the conclusion that the issue can be considered only towards the end of Regional Trading Arrangement(RTA) negotiations after securing concessions from China on issues of interest.

Just looking into your own space, what is hidden in you. From where comes this life? From where comes this consciousness?

With the introduction of swanky indigenously built German Linked Hoffman Buschk (LHB) coaches in Rajdhani and Shatabdi trains, Indian Railways have since set in motion a process of switching over completely to manufacture of stainless steel coaches hereafter to replace the existing Integral Coach Factory (ICF) coaches. The complete switch over to manufacture of stainless coaches forms part of the Government resolve in the Eleventh Five Year Plan document.

New York: Around 1 million people die of suicide every year, more than by any other type of violence, including armed conflict, an official from the United Nations health agency has noted, stressing the need for greater efforts to tackle this preventable cause of death.

The ruling elite in India has been methodically pushed by their counterparts in developed countries into a high-technology trap. The UPA government-I was led to believe by these countries that their latest technologies alone would put India on the high-growth track to help it become a developed country and world power without an arduous course of development which the Indian elite does not seem to be able or willing to go through. It has not been fortuitous either that negotiations were started with the US administration at once after the UPA formed the government in 2004 for import of high technology, in particular from the USA, for application in all frontier areas of economic growth and modernisation. UPA-II is now in the process of completing this process.

Bamboo traders of the North-East have never had it so good. They are getting several crores worth orders for graded bamboos to be delivered at Delhi well before the start of the Commonwealth games. The bamboos will be painted and put up miles and miles around the city's sprawling slum clusters and unauthorized colonies. This is to conceal the dirty spots, where millions of ill-clad and famished live, from the foreign visitors during the games.

New York: An estimated 48,000 people uprooted by severe flooding in Burkina Faso are sheltering in temporary accommodation such as schools, churches and public buildings while another 40,000 are living with host families, the United Nations has reported.

New York: Urgent funding is needed to help combat an acute hunger crisis that is ravaging much of Guatemala, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned.

New York: The number of children dying before their fifth birthday has decreased steadily over the past few years and fell to under 9 million in 2008, thanks in part to greater use of health interventions such as vaccinations and insecticide-treated bednets to prevent malaria, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said.

New York: A United Nations-backed gathering on how to scale up a carbon credit system wrapped up today, with participants agreeing that the mechanism can help contribute to a successful outcome at this December's climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, which aims to conclude an ambitious new pact to curb greenhouse gas emissions.