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CHANDIGARH: Congress with the incumbent Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda as its leader seems set to return to power in Haryana. But it has been mauled by the October 13 Assembly elections, the outcome of which has given it a big shock.

New Delhi: Interim audit report on preliminary inspection of the books of accounts of the Press Club of India for the year ended 31st Marth 2006 to 2009 has found books of accounts of the club unclean while the very low level of politics has been undermining the very prestige of this body for a long time. The audit report found that the Club had been violating many laws of the land, some of them are criminal in nature.

The high level global conference on climate change and technology development and transfer which concluded in Delhi on Friday has warmed up the sentiments for the upcoming crucial climate conference at Copenhagen. This may become more fine-tuned and focused when the environment ministers meet in Barcelona about two weeks later.

It does not require a lot of education and diplomatic knowledge to know that long starvation can weaken even the fiercest of animals to surrender. Asian tigers or even dragons are no exception. Confucius had warned: 'Don't feed your detractors.' Commonsense, which is not always very common, too suggests that.

BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mr. Shivraj Singh Chauhan has evolved a new technique to keep the government machinery on its toes and ensure that the man on the street is kept abreast of the pro-people programmes being undertaken by the government.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is helping the People's Republic of China (PRC) protect some of its most endangered animals and plants, while providing sustainable job opportunities for residents in the Qinling Mountains - one of the country's most biologically diverse regions.

New York: Climate change will lead to ever greater numbers of people being uprooted in Africa, the top United Nations humanitarian official has said , calling for enhanced and swift actions to reduce disaster risk and step up mitigation.

New York: The United Nations communications technology agency has given its stamp of approval to a new energy-efficient one-size-fits-all mobile telephone charger, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has announced.