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New York: Climate change strikes it fiercest blow against the poorest, most vulnerable people around the world, according to a United Nations report released, urging policymakers to heed the role of women - who make up the majority of the poor - in combating climate change.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - India's Assam state is to expand its electricity transmission and distribution capacity, and increase access in remote communities in a bid to meet growing demand and cut poverty.

Floods and drought left behind, Andhra Pradesh goes through a prestigious battle on November 23 for the 150-member Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, with all parties in the fray as a trial of strength for the future, in a state where intra-Congress tensions make instability hover over the Rosaiah Government.

“War is the continuation of politics, just as politics is bloodless war”
— Clausewitz
Diplomacy, one might add, is the international face of politics, of which camouflage is an essential ingredient. Surely, the main thrust of diplomacy is to provide global sustenance to a nation's socio-political-economic advancement, and therefore foreign policy and its diplomacy have to be in sync with economic advance of the nation.

New York: A top United Nations official has called for a new culture of “intellectual social responsibility” to take education beyond the classroom to the search for real solutions to real problems, with the academic and educational sector pooling its knowledge for the global public good.

New York: With over 5,000 casualties last year from landmines that continue to indiscriminately kill and maim decades after they are laid, two senior United Nations officials today warned that, despite significant progress in ridding the world of these explosive devices, much more needs to be done.

New York: Despite the encouraging commitments by the Kyrgyz Government, women and girls are increasingly vulnerable to violence, exploitation and destitution, an independent United Nations human rights expert said today following her first mission to the country.

New York: The United Nations human rights chief has called on judges across South Asia to ensure that everyone has access to justice, as part of efforts to combat the scourges of inequality and discrimination.

New York: The largest-ever mass vaccination campaign protecting populations from the dangerously infectious yellow fever disease will begin next week across three West African countries, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has announced.

The October 2009 blaze in the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) depot spanning over ten days in the outskirt of Jaipur (Rajasthan) in which 12 persons lost their lives and several got injured, which caused massive damages to the environment in the surroundings including harm to human health and properties, has once again brought on the fore the need for enacting a law of tort to deal with negligence or human failure by the state, organisations and individual professionals for their negligence in performing their legitimate duties in pursuance of Article 300 of the Constitution of India.