Migration to richer states inevitable: Official

October 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A senior government official Monday questioned the veracity of the latest United Nations' Human Development Index, where India has been ranked 134. I would suggest the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) to also look at how the report is perceived around the world.

October 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A senior government official Monday suggested that the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) include additional parameters to prepare data relating to migration for its Human Development Index. "Some of India's data seem to show a small percent of population as migration," said Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia here while releasing a UNDP report, Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Development.

September 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India and Denmark Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Labour Mobility Partnership to promote orderly migration of Indian workers to meet the growing demand of workforce in the Danish economy. Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi, who is currently on a tour to Denmark, signed the MoU with Danish Minister of Refugee, Immigration and Integration Affairs Birther Ronn Hornbech at Copenhagen.

September 28th, 2009 MARRAKECH - The 26th International Population Congress has opened here to discuss population related problems, migration and the economic crisis, among others. Over 2,000 demographers from 114 countries attended the five-day meeting that started Sunday to discuss more than 200 topics, including population and global climate change, migration, economic crisis, the imbalance of fertility rate and social security system.

September 7th, 2009 WELLINGTON - New Zealand's recession may be over, but the country's strong currency which has recently surged to a 12 month high against the US dollar was at odds with its low growth outlook and interest rates, Finance Minister Bill English said Tuesday. The New Zealand dollar, which gained 12 percent on the US dollar in the past three months, and traded at 69.36 US cents Tuesday, appeared to be "out of line with New Zealand's fundamentals", English told Radio New Zealand.

July 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) MP from Bihar Shahnawaz Hussain has written to the urban development ministry to pay compensation and give jobs in the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to family members of workers who died at a DMRC construction site Sunday. The issue has also yet again brought into focus the larger issue of millions of Biharis migrating to various states in the country, due to the lack of adequate job opportunities back home.

July 2nd, 2009 EU: China, India must make emissions cutsSTOCKHOLM — The chances of concluding a new global climate change pact remain dim unless China, India and Brazil make significant cuts in carbon dioxide emissions as well a senior Swedish climate change official said Thursday. Lars-Erik Liljelund, special climate change adviser to the Swedish government, said cuts from richer countries in the 27-nation bloc or planned cuts in the United States will not be enough to meet aims to cut at least 25 percent of emission from 1990 levels.

June 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhiites grew richer with per capita income growing at a faster pace compared to other states, while it increased its literate population to 82 percent, as per the state government's economic survey. Delhi's per capita income more than doubled the national average to stand at Rs.60,189, an increase of 5.6 percent over the previous corresponding period, according to the Economic Survey of Delhi (2008-09) presented by Delhi's Finance Minister A.K.

June 6th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Goa received nearly Rs.800 crore (Rs.8 billion) in remittances last year from 56,000 emigrants settled abroad, a official study on Goan diaspora has revealed. Goa Migration Study is a joint project by the state government's office of the commissioner for non-resident Indian affairs, the union ministry of overseas Indian affairs and the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) here.

June 1st, 2009 US-Cuba talks on immigration to resumeSAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Cuba has agreed to resume talks with the Obama administration on legal immigration of Cubans to the United States and direct mail service between the two countries in a move welcomed by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. "These talks are part of our effort to forge a new way forward on Cuba that advances the interests of the United States, the Cuban people and our entire hemisphere," she said.

May 31st, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US and Cuba are to hold discussions on migration and other issues for the first time since such talks were broken off six years ago, the US State Department announced Sunday. US State Department officials said the talks, agreed to by Cuba Saturday, would also cover mail services between the two countries.

May 31st, 2009 Official: US-Cuba talks on immigration to resumeWASHINGTON — Cuba has agreed to resume talks with the Obama administration on legal immigration of Cubans to the United States and direct mail service between the two countries, a State Department official said Sunday. The communist government notified the U.S.

February 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - You may have to wait a little more longer than expected before you start paying less to access the Internet through a high speed broadband network, as the telecom watchdog is yet to come out with the guidelines on the next generation network (NGN) that will enable telecom operators to offer better services at lower rates. Telecom operators have been asked to submit their comments on NGN by March 10, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said here Wednesday.

February 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Monday said high fiscal deficit was inevitable given the global economic scenario and increasing public expenditure. External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee in his interim budget speech pegged the current fiscal's deficit at 6 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), but hoped that it would come down to 5.5 percent in next financial year.

January 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Tuesday issued a consultation paper on next generation networks (NGN), seeking the views of the industry stakeholders on migrating to the new platform. NGN enables telecom operators to offer a range of new services from lower tariffs to high-speed broadband and intensive services including, internet protocol television (IPTV), high definition television (HDTV), videoconferencing, voice over internet protocol (VoIP), instant messaging and e-mail.