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The World Bank, which has invested over 1,160 million USD in different projects of north-eastern India, is further expanding its footprints in the region, its country director Auguste Tano Kouame said here on Friday.Currently, work on various projects in underway in Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Mizoram, and Sikkim will soon be added to this list, he said.Speaking to PTI on the sidelines of a conference, Kouame said the projects in the north-east range from investment in transportation sector to agriculture and human resources, with focus on involvement of women and adolescent girls.Our work here is still on a learning curve. ....
Notwithstanding, the Indus Water Treaty's (IWT) most generous and unequal sharing of waters favouring Pakistan vis-a-vis India, Islamabad objected to the construction of Kishenganga and Ratle dams by New Delhi. ....
Argentina has a $44 billion debt with the Fund and is negotiating $2 billion in outstanding debt with the Paris Club. Colombia attorney general asks, again, to shelve case against ex-president Uribe BOGOTA - Colombia's attorney general's office said on Monday it would again request a judge's approval to shelve a bribery and fraud case against former President Alvaro Uribe, the latest salvo in a deeply polarizing and long-running investigation. Uribe and several allies are being investigated over alleged witness tampering to discredit accusations he had ties to right-wing paramilitaries. ....