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HUA HIN, THAILAND - Leaders of Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines (BIMP) have agreed to start carrying out 12 priority infrastructure projects over the next two years under the BIMP East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) subregional cooperation program.

With the success of amending the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act during the Winter Session of Parliament in 2008 and setting up of National Security Guard base in the four Metros during the first half of 2009 as a quick response measure to tackle terrorism, militancy, subversion and naxalism on a war footing throughout the nation, the Union Minister of Home Affairs P.Chidambaram has set in motion an ambitious plan to fast track investigation of crime and detection of criminals.

New York: The top United Nations official in Asia and the Pacific has highlighted the opportunities to promote trade and investment among countries in the region, while presenting a new development plan less dependent on exports to the West.

During the cold war days, it was customary for us to lampoon the Soviet economy as one of distributing shortages and poverty. Shortages of certain goods were perennial, and there had been big scramble for them. Now 18 years of globalisation has placed the world system on the opposite pole. Instead of sharing poverty, globalisation and competitive consumerism have forced the world to wrangle over sharing the perils of plundering the planet.

LUCKNOW: The poor performance of the BSP in the Haryana and Maharashtra assembly elections has shattered the dream of Chief Minister Mayawati to expand her base in other parts of the country.

CHANDIGARH: Congress with the incumbent Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda as its leader seems set to return to power in Haryana. But it has been mauled by the October 13 Assembly elections, the outcome of which has given it a big shock.

New Delhi: Interim audit report on preliminary inspection of the books of accounts of the Press Club of India for the year ended 31st Marth 2006 to 2009 has found books of accounts of the club unclean while the very low level of politics has been undermining the very prestige of this body for a long time. The audit report found that the Club had been violating many laws of the land, some of them are criminal in nature.

The high level global conference on climate change and technology development and transfer which concluded in Delhi on Friday has warmed up the sentiments for the upcoming crucial climate conference at Copenhagen. This may become more fine-tuned and focused when the environment ministers meet in Barcelona about two weeks later.

It does not require a lot of education and diplomatic knowledge to know that long starvation can weaken even the fiercest of animals to surrender. Asian tigers or even dragons are no exception. Confucius had warned: 'Don't feed your detractors.' Commonsense, which is not always very common, too suggests that.

BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mr. Shivraj Singh Chauhan has evolved a new technique to keep the government machinery on its toes and ensure that the man on the street is kept abreast of the pro-people programmes being undertaken by the government.