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New York: An independent United Nations human rights expert today condemned the series of stonings that have been taking place in Somalia, and called for an urgent end to such 'cruel, inhuman and degrading' practices.

New Delhi: A large number of RTI activists from the country including convenors of state RTI forums of MP, Bihar, West Bengal, AP, TN, Orissa, Delhi, Gujarat, J & K, Punjab, Haryana, Manipur and Maharashtra have written to the Prime Minister, Mrs Sonia Gandhi and Mr Lal Krishna Advani demanding that the next Chief Information Commissioner be appointed through a transparent, inclusive and participatory process.

New Delhi: The nexus between China and Pakistan in the military sphere is of serious concern, said India's Defence Minister A K Antony delivering the Presidential address at the 44th Foundation Day Celebrations of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) here today.

M.I.F.F. has received 864 entries from 37 countries which is an all time record. The Selection Committee consisting of eminent film makers, journalists and critics has already started previewing the films, the total duration of which crosses more than 400 hours.

Lamenting the absence of middle ground between the high brow 'art films' and big commercial ventures, Umakanth Thumrugoti, director of 7 Days in Slow Motion said that people want to see good movies which can be seen with entire family and we have to provide means to do that.

The labour market is going through a deep depression, its worst since the early 1970s. The way the prices of wage goods are shooting up week after week, industrial workers have never had it so bad in recent memory. Unemployment is rising as industry is still hesitant about fresh recruitment. The management is continuously resorting to the practice of job compression and cheaper job outsourcing to keep the roster of the so-called permanent workers thin.

LUCKNOW: After distancing himself from former chief minister Kalyan Singh, Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav is wooing Muslims again.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Years of underinvestment in electricity infrastructure has left Nepal with one of the most unreliable power supplies in South Asia, putting a brake on the country's economic growth.

During the last couple of decades, India has experienced an important process of trade reform. Tariffs on imports were slashed and restrictions to trade were removed. How did the production structure of industries in India respond to this process of liberalization?