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NEW DELHI: Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid seemed quite justified when he recently sought to urge the corporate sector to avoid payment of lavish pay packets to their chief executives and other members of the management. The corporate bosses were unnerved by this simple exhortation and mounted pressure on the Government to contain the Minister.

New York: A new United Nations report calls for a more sophisticated approach to developing biofuels as an energy option to ensure that it benefits society, the economy and the environment as a whole.

There have been great hopes in the RSS parivar when Sarsangh Chalak Mohan Bhagwat called a halt to the bickering within the BJP and set the ground rules for refurbishing the party. The terms he put forth included a president in the 55-60 age group, early retirement of L.K. Advani and election of a new chief by the year-end. The other two points he made - that Advani himself should be the search engine for his successors and an assurance that the RSS would not meddle in BJP's internal functioning - had raised hopes of a perfect relationship.

The nexus between the management of the country's major port trusts and dredging companies is not only robbing the nation of hundreds of crores of rupees annually, but also impeding the fast movement of ships and foreign trade. The obnoxious alliance between port trusts and dredger operators, especially in large government ports, is also costing shippers - both importers and exporters - and shipping companies a fortune.

New York: Women living in rural areas in many parts of the world face severe deprivations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today in a message on the International Day of Rural Women calling for greater support of their rights.

New York, Oct 15 2009: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Gabon, Lebanon and Nigeria will serve two-year terms on the Security Council starting next January after they won elections to the 15-member body today.

New York: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and cosmetics giant L'Oréal today announced the names of five exceptional women scientists, selected by a panel headed by a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, who will receive major awards.

New York: The simple act of washing hands with soap can drastically reduce deaths from preventable diseases, which are killing thousands of people everyday, a group of United Nations human rights experts stressed as they marked Global Handwashing Day.

New York: Lake Chad, once one of the world's largest water bodies, could disappear in 20 years due to climate change and population pressures, resulting in a humanitarian disaster in central Africa, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today.