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of a fresh draft of a letter to be sent to Swiss authorities over graft charges against President Asif Ali Zardari and gave government time until October 10 to finalise it in accordance with its order that sought revival of the cases.
Pakistan were capable of settling their outstanding issues themselves.
ndia calls for total elimination of Chemical Weapons, WMDs : India on 2 October stressed the importance of total elimination of chemical
weapons and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) and called for universal adherence to international legal norms and Chemical Weapons Convention
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served as a model for elimination of an entire category of weapons of mass
destruction. The Minister told the meeting that the international legal norms against the use of chemical weapons anywhere must not be breached.
member--Brazil,
Russia,
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China and South Africa- BRICS bloc, representing the emerging economies,
reached consensus on creating a BRICS development bank to complement existing global financial institutions like World Bank.
event -- the 11th Conference of Parties (COP) to Convention on Biological (CBD) -- kick- started on 1 October with the inauguration a meeting on the implementation of Cartagena Protocol on Bio-safety Minister by Union Jayanthi
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around 2,000 delegates from 150 countries. At COP MOP, a host of issues will be
discussed and decisions adopted for ensuring the safe transfer, handling and use of
Living Modified Organisms(LMOs) resulting from modern biotechnology. Besides providing further guidance on operation of Bio-safety Clearing House (BCH), it will
the Protocol, a framework and action plan for capacity building and encourage parties to expedite domestic ratification to the Supplementary Protocol on liability and redress, among others. At COP-11 beginning October 8, delegates will review the progress of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and address ways to strengthen its implementation.
crossing in Lahore after freedom fighter Bhagat Singh to acknowledge his
revolutionary spirit and his role in the movement
subcontinent. The Shadman Chowk of Lahore will now be known as Bhagat Singh Chowk. Bhagat Singh was hanged in March 1931 in the Lahore Jail, which
roundabout was built later. While authorities have
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reshuffled his cabinet on 1 October, naming Koriki Jojima, a senior member of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), as new finance minister. Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba was among heavyweight names keeping their posts in the reshuffle as Noda
looks to move past a damaging row with China and boost his flagging popularity. The reshuffle came, as the prime minister's poll numbers remain dreary after a costly battle over legislation to double sales tax. Noda elevated Makiko Tanaka to the cabinet as new education minister, a woman with pro-Beijing credentials reflecting her father's status as the prime minister who normalised ties with China in 1972.
the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing signed by India.
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of the identified mega diverse countries rich in biodiversity. With only 2.4 per cent of
the earth's land area, it accounts for 7-8 per cent of the recorded species of the world.
It is also rich in associated traditional knowledge, which is both coded as in ancient texts of Indian systems of medicines such as Ayurveda, Unani and Sidha, and also
associated traditional knowledge can be used to develop a wide range of products and services for human benefit, such as medicines, agricultural practices, and cosmetics. India is a Party to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) which is one of the agreements adopted during the Rio Earth Summit held in 1992. One of the three objectives of the CBD relates to Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS), which refers to the way in which genetic resources may be accessed, and benefits resulting from their use shared by users with countries that provide them. The CBD prescribes that access to genetic resources is subject to national legislation. Accordingly, India after extensive consultative process had enacted the Biological Diversity Act in 2002 for
in the near absence of user country measures, once the resource leaves the country providing the resources, there is no way to ensure compliance of ABS provisions in
sharing has been negotiated under the aegis of CBD, and adopted by the Tenth Conference of Parties (CoP-10) held in Nagoya, Japan in October 2010.India has participated actively and contributed meaningfully in the ABS negotiations which formally started about six years back. The objective of the Nagoya
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Maoist fighters into the Nepal Army (NA). The cantonments where the former combatants of the Maoist Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) resided have closed down,
under state control, and the PLA has ceased to exist ending the state of one country, two
Armies. Over the past five years, there has been reduction a in gradual the
number of combatants in the cantonments. About 32,000 individuals had initially
(UNMIN) verified only 19,602 of those as combatants and disqualified over 4,000 persons for being under-age or joining the Maoist Army after the ceasefire began.
November 2011, a seven-point agreement was signed between the parties, which stipulated that a maximum of 6,500 former combatants could be integrated in a specially created general directorate under the NA. In April 2012, the Nepal Army had also taken charge of the cantonments as well as containers that included over
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unidentified gunmen wearing military uniform attacked a hostel in
northern Nigeria on 3 october. The massacre has taken place on Nigeria's 52nd Independence celebration. police sources said gunmen invaded the hostel of Mubi Polytechnic in northern state of Adamawa, killing 46 students. A lecturer said that
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they had no more grounds for appeal in their years long battles to avoid charges in the United
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October 2012 by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Welthungerhilfe, and Concern Worldwide. The basic theme of the report for the 2012
Security under Land, Water, and Energy Stresses. IFPRI that calculated the global hunger Index analysed the measures based upon multidimensional angles. The published report have shown a proportional growth in hunger reduction of people worldwide but recorded the progress speed was tragically slow and alarming. The
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South Asia and SubSaharan Africa to be highly alarming and have highest level of hunger, and showcased sufferings of
millions of poor. As per the report, the nations that had showcased an absolute progress between 1990 Global Hunger Index to 2012 Global Hunger Index were Bangladesh, Angola, Malawi, Nicaragua, Ethiopia, Niger, and Vietnam. Whereas there are 15 countries that have managed to reduce it by 50 percent or more. As per the report, India instead of its fast paced economic growth in past two decades has lagged behind in improving its record in Global Hunger Index chart. In the list of 79
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countries in the global Hunger Index, India was ranked 65th behind China that was
placed at 2nd place position, Pakistan at 57th and Sri Lanka at 37th position. The report also points out the three countries Bangladesh, India and Timor-Leste constitutes to the highest occurrence of underweight children under the age group of
second with 43.5 percent of the children less than five underweight in the list of the 129 countries compared for underweight child, after Timor-Leste. Countries like Ethiopia, Niger, Nepal and Bangladesh followed the chart.
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early delivery. The issue came up at a meeting here between Defence Minister AK
Antony and his Russian counterpart Anatoly Serdyukov during which Moscow said
the 45,000-tonne aircraft carrier had suffered a "big malfunction" in its engine and could be handed over only in "fourth quarter of 2013".
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democratic process in other countries. The MOU was signed by Shri Akshay Rout, Director General from the Commission and Ms. Lise Grande, UNDP Resident
Representative and UN Resident Coordinator from UNDPs side in the presence of Chief Election Commissioner of India, Shri V S Sampath, Election Commissioners,
UNDP Associate Administrator, Ms. Rebeca Grynspan. Chief Election Commissioner Shri Sampath observed that transparency and strict enforcement have been the strength of ECI, which have lent total credibility to Indian elections. He underlined the Commissions commitment to work along South-South cooperation and extend support to electoral process wherever there is a need.ECI and UNDP have been working jointly in recent months to harness ECIs competence in election management to the benefit of several countries. The collaboration is specially built around Commissions one-year-old India International Institute of
Democracy and Election Management, IIIDEM, which offers courses for
MOUs with fourteen countries for sharing electoral practices and extending electoral assistance.
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he had even put forward his second cabinet list in just four days, a motion of no confidence in Abu Shagur was signed by 126 assembly members. That was rejected by the GNC president. But when his pared-down list was put to the vote, 125 members of the 186 members present in the 200-seat GNC did not express
rules, the assembly will now elect a new premier.
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Roundtable (MUD) coalition and gained 44.97 percent of votes.
uwaits ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on 6 October, dissolved parliament, a step toward ending months of political mess and calling the second elections this year that could again swing in favour of opposition groups led by Islamist factions. The move by Kuwaits Western-allied emir, announced on state-run media, followed a failed attempt last month by the government to overturn a voting district law that appeared to favour
the opposition. New elections must now be held within 60 days.
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would be "critical". The girl wrote a diary about suffering under the Taliban and was accused by them of "promoting secularism. The Pakistani army said Ms Yousafzai's trip was being sponsored by the United Arab Emirates. The
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education for girls was attacked on 9 October as she was returning home from school in Mingora in north-western Swat. The Taliban has warned they will target Malala Yousafzai again.
democratically elected President, Mohamed Nasheed, who has
challenged the legality of a criminal trial against him. The court issued the arrest
judge bench set up to try him for abuse of power when he was in office. Earlier in the day, Mr. Nasheed said he was challenging the legality of the judicial process against him
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agreement would see the establishment of a new semi-autonomous Muslim area in
the resource-rich southernPhilippine region of Mindanao, which the 12,000strong Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) regards as its ancestral homeland. In this regard, Philippines President Benigno Aquino told this framework
sides said they were aiming for a final peace deal to be achieved before the Presidents term ends in the middle of 2016. Mr. Aquino said a final agreement would have to be approved by a plebiscite. Such approval is not certain in the mainly Catholic country. A planned peace deal during the term of previous President Gloria Arroyo crumbled in 2008 at the final moment amid intense domestic opposition. There are roughly four million Muslims in Mindanao. They see it as their ancestral homeland dating back to Islamic sultanates established before Spanish Christians arrived in the 1500s.Muslim rebel groups have been fighting for independence or autonomy in Mindanao since the early 1970s.The rebellion has claimed more than
Mindanao in deep poverty. The MILF is the biggest and most important remaining rebel group, after the Moro National Liberation Front signed a peace pact with the
other minerals, as well as being one of the countrys most important farming regions.
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neighbours in European countries are tackling this problem of wearing hijabs. Then, everything will become clear," Mr Putin said on 18 October at a meeting with representatives of the Russian People's Front.
the 25 richest people across the world who ever lived by US website Celebrity Networth. Osman Ali Khan, the Nizam, who ruled Hyderabad between 1886-1967, was ranked sixth in world and the richest
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lived had a combined fortune of $4.317 trillion, of which 14 are American.
elections on January 22, officials said on Tuesday. The dissolution of the Knesset
was approved by 100 votes to none in a third reading after a lengthy session in the 120-seat chamber.
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was topped by Australia and followed by three Scandinavian countries Norway, Sweden and Finland. At the bottom of the list were Yemen, Pakistan, Sudan and Chad. The research done by an international consulting and management firm Booz
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potential by a combination of cultural restrictions, gender discrimination, and lack of resources. It underlined that if India is to sustain its rate of growth, it will have to break down these sizable barriers to women's empowerment.
The report is based on the country's performance in terms of primary, secondary and tertiary education, equal pay for equal work, non-discrimination policies, access to childcare, property ownership rights and ability to access credit. It also looks at whether wages are equal, the number of women in work compared with men, and whether there is equality in the number of female managers, senior business leaders and politicians.
kosazana Dlamini-Zuma waved an African Union flag, tapped a wooden gavel and becamethe first woman to take office as the Chairperson of
the African Union Commission(AUC) at the A.U. headquarters in Addis Ababa on 15 October. Upon taking office, Dr. Dlamini-Zuma shall be confronted by simmering conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea Bissau; chronic instability in Somalia; and an insurgency in northern Mali where fighters affiliated with al-Qaeda have taken control of large swathes of land. She supported
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also pledged support for continued negotiations between Sudan and South Sudan as
they seek to demarcate international boundaries under the aegis of the A.U. High Level Implementation Panel.
are most prone to natural disasters, according to a report. The "World
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reducing risks to people and property from coastal hazards like storms, erosion and floods," Michael Beck, lead marine scientist at The Nature Conservancy, was quoted
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Zidan as the new Prime
Minister. Ali Zidan, an independent, won 93 votes.He beat a candidate favoured by the Justice and
Construction party which is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. Announcing his victory, President of the National Assembly asked Mr Zidan to propose a
Minister, Mustafa Abu Shagur, was dismissed a week ago after failing to form a government.
ritish Government and Scotland signed on 15 October, a historic deal that will allow Scotland to hold a referendum in 2014 on whether it
wants to remain part of the United Kingdom or secede from the 300year-old political union. For this referendum, voting age will be 16 years. Agreement was signed by Prime Minister David Cameron and Scotlands First Minister and the leader of the ruling Scottish National Party (SNP) Alex Salmond in Edinburgh. If Scotland does break away, it will end more than 300 years of political union with England.
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country among the G8 nations to take this step. Germany had relaxed travel
restrictions to the state for its nationals in July 2011. Japans move to ease
restrictions is valid for Srinagar and adjoining areas like Gulmarg. The decision was arrived at after the Japanese embassy officials met the J&K government, and made
many other embassies of developed countries are expected to follow suit. Sources said Australians, Canadians, British and some more countries are also making enquiries about the situation in Kashmir. The foreign tourist arrivals in J&K have steadily increased from 52,750 tourists to about 72,000 in 2011.
and former ISI chief Asad Durrani for distributing millions of rupees among politicians to rig the 1990 general election. A three-judge bench
in the presidency, ISI, Military Intelligence or Intelligence Bureau should be shut down immediately as such an institution is unconstitutional. olombian leftist rebels and the Colombian government have formally launched talks to end nearly 50 years of armed
conflict, with each side laying out its vision of how the talks will develop and the type of peace that the country can hope for if a deal is reached. Negotiating teams from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) and the
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first time the two sides have met publicly since peace negotiations broke down in 2002, unleashing an intense military campaign by the government of lvaro Uribe
against the Farc, which funds itself through kidnapping, extortion, drugs and illegal gold mining. The Farc negotiators reiterated their insistence that the rebel leader
convicted of kidnapping three Americans, be allowed to participate as a negotiator. Mrquez appealed to the US government to make "a great contribution" to Colombia by allowing Trinidad to be involved.
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international peace and security. To be elected to the UN Security Council, a country must win support from two thirds of the General Assembly members, or 129 votes.
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Bali. Construction
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were digging a new drainage basin near a Hindu learning center on Jalan Trengguli, in East Denpasar, when their tools struck a large stone structure one metre
underground. The crew then excavated a large
stone plate, the first of many discovered at the site. The Denpasar Archeology Agency took over the excavation and uncovered an 11-metre-long structure. The island is home to most of the Hindus in Indonesia.
Ivanishvili as the country's new Prime Minister and endorsed his
government. When Saakashvili's second and final term ends in October 2013, a constitutional reform will transfer many of the President's powers to the Prime Minister. Ivanishvili, who made his fortune in Russia, has stressed the need to restore relations with Moscow that have been severed since the two countries fought
international assistance to try to start a dialogue with Russia "with a goal of developing a strategy for overcoming a crisis in bilateral ties. At the same time he
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five-year-old record set in Hong Kong, officials said. A total of 24,200 people stood up in the national hockey stadium to make the green and white Pakistani
record set by 21,726 people
display of unity of 24,200 people here in LahoreGuinness World Records adjudicator Gareth Deaves said on Monday to a cheering crowd. "Every single one of
government representative Hamza Shahbaz Sharif. 42,813 people in the national hockey stadium sang the national anthem together, smashing the previous best of 15,243 held by India
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the ban on the state's uranium mining. Uranium has not been mined in Queensland since the closure of the Mary Kathleen mine in 1982.
comprehensive resolution on issues left unresolved after the south seceded from the North last year. A primary issue is the status of Abyei a 10,000 sq km oil-rich territory claimed by both sides. On 24 october, the A.U. High Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) submitted a report to the A.U. Peace and Security Council, urging that the council give the Sudans two weeks to implement existing agreements on establishing a transitional administration for the disputed territory, and to arrive at a final solution in six weeks.
imposed on Iran outside the framework of the United Nations. The
assertion comes in defiance of such unilateral sanctions imposed by Israel, the
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engagement with Iran within the framework of U.N. decisions. Switzerland is a
major global centre for oil trading, and is host to an office of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC).
of tax fraud and sentenced him to four years in prison. The conviction
on 26 October was the 76-year-old media moguls first in a long series of trials, but it did not mean he was going to prison right away. Cases in Italy must pass two levels of appeal before the verdicts are final. Berlusconi, along with others convicted in the case, must
deposit $13 million into a fund as
appeals, which could take years, proceed. The trial began in July 2006, but was put
Premier until it was watered down by the constitutional court.
the A.U. Peace and Security Council [AUPSC] on 24 October. The A.U. had
suspended the West African nation after a coup in March this year saw a military junta seize power even as two thirds of Mali slipped into the control of a coalition of armed groups and organised gangs. The soldiers behind the coup had claimed that the existing dispensation was unable to tackle the insurgents in the north. Since
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smuggling and drug trafficking struck up alliances with a variety of armed groups , ranging from the self-proclaimed secular Tuareg combatants, some of them from Libyan Army of the Qadhafi regime to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a
north African group associated with al-Qaeda. The A.U. estimates that the conflict
are living as refugees in the neighbouring countries of Algeria, Burkina Faso, Mauritania and Niger.
25 October. Twenty five men and 31 women were reported dead in four Rakhine
Rohingya communities that re-erupted on 23 October. In June, ethnic violence in the western state left at least 90 people dead and destroyed more than 3,000
the worst reported in the region since June, after clashes were set off by the alleged rape and murder of a Buddhist woman by three Muslim men in May.Tensions still simmer in part because the government has failed to find any long-term solution to the crisis other than segregating the two communities in some areas. The crisis in Myanmars west goes back decades and is rooted in a dispute over where the regions
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non-binding referendum on 20 October, whether they wanted the proposals of 25
ordinary citizens to form the basis of a new constitution. According to the results,
two-thirds of those voting wanted the constitutional councils proposals to be the foundation for a Parliament bill on a new constitution. A proposal to keep the
financial collapse in 2008 prompted allegations of crony capitalism and renewed longstanding calls for a revised constitution, which dates back to the countrys independence from Denmark. Any changes to Icelands basic law must be approved twice by Parliament, with a general election held between the votes.
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President Bashar al-Assad, even as a deadly blast rocked Damascus. Lebanons opposition, meanwhile, called for a huge demonstration against the Syrian regime at the funeral later on 21 October, of a top police intelligence chief killed in a Beirut car bombing which it has blamed on
quarter of the Old City, killing seven people and wounding many others, said officials and state media. The bombing came as Mr. Brahimi, after holding talks with Mr.
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forecasters agreed would be a devastating landfall, possibly within 100 miles of New York City. As the storm bore down on some of the nation's most densely populated areas, city and state officials went into emergency mode. The New York City subway system and all of the region's commuter trains
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Theory was held in Hyderabad from 29 October. It was hosted by the Department of Public Administration, Osmania University in collaboration with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and the American Society for Public Administration. 120 papers were presented at the conference. Later, a symposium on the Status of Public Administration as an Academic Discipline was held and world
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