The NAC suggests steps to ensure food security, but its recommendation for

More than four million Pakistanis have been made homeless by nearly three weeks of floods, the United Nations said on Thursday, making the critical task of securing greater amounts of aid more urgent.

The UN had earlier said that two million people had lost their homes in the worst floods in Pakistan

ANDREW JACOBS

Three lakh, forty thousand people in India and China die each year from cardiovascular and respiratory dis eases that can be traced to noxious emissions

Anita Joshua

Priscilla Jebaraj

NEW DELHI: Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Environment and Forests, will be one of the 21 members of the United Nations' (UN) newly formed High-level Panel on Global Sustainability.

More than half a million people trapped by floods in north-west Pakistan are facing increasingly desperate conditions as monsoon rains prevent helicopters from reaching the worst-hit areas.

The UN warned on Sunday that the number of people affected by the worst floods in living memory has risen to 6m from an estimated 4m last week as the rising waters have spread south, swelling the Indus river

John Vidal

 A waste-picker at work in Mumbai. Waste-pickers handle much
of the growing mountains of rubbish in developing countries.

International conference on AIDS in Vienna

VIENNA: Anti-HIV drugs reached 1.2 million more people last year, the U.N. announced on Monday at the world AIDS forum, as the former U.S. President, Bill Clinton, defended Barack Obama's funding to fight the disease.

Jason Burke

Madhya Pradesh, Democratic Republic of Congo show near identical poverty level, say researchers