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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has hinted at his retirement at the end of his current Lok Sabha term. Expectations are that the BJP leader L.K. Advani may call it a day soon. CPI-M veteran Jyoti Basu and former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee are already leading a retired life. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi is the latest to announce that he will retire in June 2010.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - A package of reforms, investments and long-term strategies must be instituted by the Government of the Philippines to free the country from persistent poverty, which is constraining its economic and social development, according to a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) study.

New Delhi: In a major development that could considerably boost life expectancy and disease diagnostics in India, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has completed the first ever Human Genome Sequencing, opening new vistas of low cost affordable healthcare and predictive medicine for the common man.

New Delhi: Government of India has conceded to the demand for a separate Telangana state for which the process will be initiated and an appropriate resolution will be moved in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly.

The humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe, plagued in recent years by food shortages, an erosion of basic services and an economic downturn due in part to long-running political strife, has significantly improved but continued aid is still needed to maintain the positive gains, a top United Nations official said.

The Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders are finding “growing convergence” on many of the issues that have divided the two sides on the Mediterranean island, a United Nations official said today as he expressed cautious optimism that UN-backed talks aimed at reunifying Cyprus will succeed.

With the frequency and severity of droughts likely to increase due to climate change, more than 60 scientists from all the world’s regions are meeting at a United Nations-backed conference in the United States this week to draw up guidelines for early warning systems that could save countless lives.

New York: The United Nations official leading efforts to tackle malaria is visiting Nigeria and Kenya this week, the two nations which together account for one third of the estimated 1 million deaths worldwide from the deadly disease.