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Manila, Philippines - Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Haruhiko Kuroda and Republic of Uzbekistan First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Rustam Azimov today signed a $60 million loan agreement to support the government's efforts to strengthen the water supply and sanitation sector.

New Delhi: In more bad news for Delhiites after the hike in bus and Metro fares, the Delhi govt has announced upto two-and-a-half times increase in water tariff in the city from New Year, besides putting an end to the free water scheme that mostly benefitted the lower income groups.

After three months of intensive review of his Af-Pak policy, US President Barack Obama has announced to send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan and begin withdrawal of troops in 18 months.

New Delhi: Even as work on border road construction in Jammu and Kashmir was stopped after Chinese objection, Arunachal CM Doorjee Khandu has asserted that his govt will not succumb to any such pressure.

New Delhi: Two days after a Sukhoi fighter jet crashed, the second this year, the Indian Air Force (IAF) has grounded its entire fleet of 100 SU-30 aircraft.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Papua New Guinea (PNG) is to improve its border facilities with neighboring Indonesian province, Papua, in a bid to tap trade and investment opportunities that can benefit some of its poorest provinces.

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - 'Developing Asia's bond markets must overcome low liquidity, a narrow investor base and limited borrower access if they are to support sustainable economic development in the region,' said Bindu N. Lohani, the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Vice-President, Finance and Administration.

Ministers from WTO member governments said on 1 December 2009 that the eight-year-old Doha Round negotiations should be concluded quickly, several of them calling for a political push early in the year so the talks can end in 2010.

New York: An independent United Nations human rights expert welcomed the adoption of a bill by the Parliament of the Maldives to decriminalize defamation, and urged other States to take similar action.

Millions of people in India have suffered so much dislocation, destruction and devastation of their lives under the combined impact of greedy private entrepreneurs and callous governments over the years that it's a miracle that they haven't taken to violent means of registering their anger and disgust at the system of governance.