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New York: As heavy fighting between the Government and rebels in northern Yemen enters its fourth week, the humanitarian crisis in the country is deepening, the United Nations refugee agency has warned.

The trade ministers assembled in Delhi for the informal WTO Ministerial resolved to resume the staled negotiations on basis of the texts formulated in December 2008. The chief negotiators and senior officials of member countries would meet in Geneva in the week beginning September 14, 2009 to draw up a process of engagement for the next two to three months and to work with the chairs of the negotiating committees to prepare an overall agenda of action.

With food prices skyrocketing in the country, local food processing companies are in for hard times in the coming months. The procurement itself of adequate quantities of basic inputs such as grains, pulses, wheat, floor, fruits, potato, tomato, ginger, lemon, red and green chillies, spices and vegetable oil is posing a challenge for small-scale units engaged in food-processing in the face of their growing shortage in the market.

LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party has staked its prestige on the Firozabad Lok Sabha by-elections by fielding Dimple Yadav, daughter-in-law of its president and former chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, to take on powerful Congress candidate Raj Babbar.

New York: Making use of the latest information and communication technology (ICT) and innovation can help countries expand educational opportunities for all in a way that also advances development, a senior United Nations official said today.

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is now banking upon “new world leaders” to help in the successful conclusion of the Doha Round.

The number 13 may be considered unlucky. But for the Congress and the NCP, it has turned out to be a lucky number. Elections to the State Assembly are scheduled for October 13. It remains to be seen whether the number will prove lucky again as the previous Assembly polls were also held on the same day.

New York: Efforts to fight climate change can receive a boost from stepped-up investment in restoring and maintaining the world's multi-trillion dollar ecosystems, ranging from forests to wetlands to river basins, according to a study backed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

New York: Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has slumped for the second year, according to a United Nations report released today, which warns that huge, hidden stashes of the illicit drug are a “ticking bomb” in the country responsible for producing almost all of the world's opium.

The United Nations has called for re-inventing growth patterns and low carbon economies and has recognized the right of developing countries for rapid economic growth Investment push, particularly by the governments. coupled with technology transfer can help ushering in of low carbon economy in the Third World, it suggested.