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New York: An independent United Nations expert has warned that the United States is an increasingly expensive place to find housing, leaving many more people homeless at a time when the financial crisis is hitting hard across the country.

New York: Poor countries, already hit hard by the global financial and economic crisis in their efforts to fund social and health programmes, are facing a double blow this year with debt servicing increasing by over 17 per cent as a proportion of government revenue, a top United Nations trade official warned today.

New York: The United Nations crime tsar today blamed shady trading for the financial crisis that rocked most of the world last year, urging governments to use an international anti-corruption treaty to outline measures to restore trust in the financial system.

New York: Many of the world's countries continue to fail to meet the health-care needs of women at key stages of their lives, such as when they reach adolescence or when they are elderly, a new United Nations report has found.

Orders for buying 11185 buses have been placed by various States under the one time economic measure of funding of buses by the Ministry of Urban Development to boost their urban transport under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). Government has sanctioned purchase of 15,260 buses for the various mission cities under JNNURM.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The People's Republic of China (PRC) is moving to develop secondary towns and cities to help stem the flow of rural migrants into larger centers, which has caused a sharp urban-rural income gap and put pressure on the environment.

TOKYO, JAPAN - Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Haruhiko Kuroda and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) President Luis-Alberto Moreno signed a partnership agreement today in Tokyo that will see their two institutions work more closely in areas ranging from trade facilitation and regional cooperation to climate change.

In a historic vote on November 7, the US House of Representatives delivered a one-trillion-dollar plan to overhaul America's health care system, moving towards universal coverage, reducing costs, and improving quality of care thereby handing President Barack Obama the victory he badly needs, as he battles an array of economic and other problems in his first year in the White House.

The year 2009, Dr Homi Bhabha's centenary year, marks India's emergence as an advanced nuclear capability nation. If Dr Bhabha was alive today, he would be enthralled to see his nuclear dreams fructifying in full measure.

KOLKATA: Post Indo-US nuclear deal, there has occurred a definite hardening of Chinese attitudes towards India. The present Chinese ambivalence on the proposed diversion of the Brahmaputra river in Tibet is likely to continue in as much as it will keep Indian policymakers on a defensive mode in the long term.