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New York: Significant gaps exist in the understanding and management of the complex processes and trends at work in the world's oceans and seas, which cover 70 per cent of the Earth's surface, warned senior United Nations officials today as they urged governments to approve expert recommendations establishing a system that plugs the holes.

New Delhi- Lok Jansakti Party, National President, Shri Ram Vilas Paswan, has appointed Shri Ajay Kumar, as National Secretary of the party from immediate effect.

On Sunday 6 September the World Trade Organization will open its doors to the public for the first time. Throughout the day, there will be a variety of activities on offer, including guided tours of the building, insights into the work of the WTO and special activities for children.

New York: The indigenous peoples of the Chaco region of neighbouring Bolivia and Paraguay are often trapped into forced labour practices and face discrimination, severe poverty and in some cases systematic violence, the United Nations reported today, calling on the two countries to take urgent action to protect those groups' human rights.

It is time for Government to stop harping on the unachievable 9 per cent growth in the near term - the irretrievably lost target of the 11th plan - and focus more on managing the drought-hit economy and rising inflationary expectations, as rural distress is widespread while the country as a whole has been in the grip of high food price inflation. Citing past experience in handling droughts and “adequate foodgrain stocks” in the godowns would smack of complacency in the absence of a credible action programme to ensure food security for the poor, rural and urban, and lower inflationary expectations.

The ghost of terrorism has again started haunting Punjab. But whether terrorism actually revisits the state depends on a number of factors which were mainly responsible for its birth in the eighties.

New York: A group of United Nations independent experts have highlighted the growing number of enforced disappearances worldwide, a terrible practice that it says remains underreported and has a particular impact on women and children.

Biscuits and other processed foods from Bangladesh are stated to enter India without any hasle on non-tariff bariers. The 6th joint working group (JWG) meeting on trade between the two countries which concluded after three days of deliberations on Saturday in Delhi agreed that India should take the onus of upgrading Bangladesh Standard and Testing Institution following which these products will gain easy entry into Indian market.

Nutrition is an input to and foundation for health and development. Interaction of infection and malnutrition is well documented. Better nutrition means stronger immune systems, less illness and better health for people of all ages. Healthy children learn better. Healthy people are stronger, are more productive and more able to create opportunities to gradually break the cycles of both poverty and hunger in a sustainable way. Better nutrition is a prime entry point to ending poverty and a milestone to achieving better quality of life.

'NETi' is an Upanishadic-expression to describe the wholeness of Brahman. King Ajaatashatru instructed saint Driptavalaki that Brahman is the aggregate of all the divine forces the latter worshiped. The BJP's present predicament is a reversed form of this exposition. Too much is said about the illiberal action against Jaswant Singh or Arun Shourie's self-righteous critique of the party's functioning and its 'Humpty-Dumptys'. But such exaggerated projection of the rebels will only give a highly distorted picture of the BJP's contemporary crisis.