Maria Sharapova became a goodwill ambassador for the UN Development Fund and donated $100,000 to the Chernobyl victims.
The Daily Telegraph of London reported on Tuesday, the first day of Ban in office, that UN peacekeepers and civilian staff were raping and abusing children as young as 12 in southern Sudan.
To script India's biggest overseas copper mine buy.
To script India's biggest overseas copper mine buy.
Hotlines between New Delhi and Addis Ababa, the headquarters of the African Union, are working overtime to make next month's India-Africa summit as big a success as a similar event organised by China last year. New Delhi's intention to give a new thrust to its relations with Africa was evident when it announced a hike of 60 per cent in its aid to the continent for the next financial year. The 2008-09 Budget presented in Parliament last week, enhanced aid to Africa.
The total tax burden on Indian companies is one of the highest in the world and in fact more than that of businesses in major economies like the US, UK, China and Japan.
The report gives India a pat on the back for bringing a large number of children to schools. However, it scores poorly in the matter of getting girls to school.
Tata Motors on Monday announced its foray into passenger vehicle segment of the Ghanian market with the launch of its car and multi-utility vehicles in the country.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga may bear a striking resemblance with the young Muhammad Ali but France like to seem him more as the new Yannick Noah.
Bharti will have to deal with 15 different regulatory regimes in Africa as opposed to just one in India.
Afghanistan, Palestinian territories, Myanmar and Chechnya were placed better than India in the poll conducted by Reuters AlertNet.
The G-8 comprises the US, Britain, Germany, Russia, France, Italy, Japan and Canada. The Outreach countries invited for the Summit were India, China, Brazil, Mexico, South Afria and Congo.
Russia will back the expansion of the G-8 if its partners in the club voice such a proposal, Putin said before the formal opening of the summit.
Bilateral issues, terrorism to top PM-Putin talks in St Petersburg
The two decades of our "spectacular economic progress" has side-stepped vast swath of our underprivileged that oscillates between twenty per cent and one-fifth of our population!
The government plans to form joint ventures in countries like Canada, Russia and Africa to get a steady supply of rough diamonds for the local gems and jewellery industry.
Angola and Kenya were eliminated from the 2010 World Cup finals after failing to make the cut in the African qualifiers.
The striker was suspended from playing for the national team for six months after he reacted angrily to being substituted.
Human Rights Watch, however, says that it has solid information that Pakistani military officers were involved in smuggling of between $2 to 5 million worth of gold from Itrui district in Eastern Congo.
Two Indian doctors in Time's heroes of Global Health list
Patil has commended the work of the ITBP and promised to look into its problems.
Over 49 lakh phones were added in the April-June quarter this fiscal.
The Indian ace was to play Congo's Sony Koyombo but pulled out as he was running a fever.
Indian Oil Corporation is eyeing acquisition of a stake in Singapore Petroleum company as part of its plans to become a diversified, transnational, integrated energy major.
Former colonial powers Britain and France on Friday paraded their historical links to Africa to try to win backing for their bids to host the 2012 Olympics.
A section of crowd shouted monkey noises at Levante's two coloured players during the weekend game that Real Madrid won 2-0.
The Indian armed force will police the southern Darfur region, which has been wracked by ethnic conflict between Muslim and Christian militia.
3 Pakistani peacekeepers in Haiti have been charged with rape, the UN said.
Sanjay Bahel, who was on deputation to the UN from the Indian Defense Auditing services, has been accused by an internal inquiry of helping Telecommunications Consultations of India Ltd get contracts worth 100 million dollars.
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