London, Jan. 21 : Department for International Development (DFID) Minister Mike Foster here has said that the global financial slowdown is putting millions of people in poor countries at a risk of facing greater poverty and they need opportunities that businesses can offer to them.

At an event hosted here by the Department for International Development, the Overseas Development Institute and Business Action for Africa, to launch DFID''s Private Sector Development Strategy, Mike Foster today said that the downturn had put jobs, profits and poverty reduction at risk, and it needed a new thinking and approaches for a sustained economic growth in poor countries.

London, Jan. 21 : Department for International Development (DFID) Minister Mike Foster here has said that the global financial slowdown is putting millions of people in poor countries at a risk of facing greater poverty and they need opportunities that businesses can offer to them.

At an event hosted here by the Department for International Development, the Overseas Development Institute and Business Action for Africa, to launch DFID''s Private Sector Development Strategy, Mike Foster today said that the downturn had put jobs, profits and poverty reduction at risk, and it needed a new thinking and approaches for a sustained economic growth in poor countries.

Allahabad, Jan 21 : Union Minister for Human Resource Development Arjun Singh today inaugurated Nehru Gram Bharati Vishwavidyalaya at Dubawal in Allahabad.

He also laid the foundation stone of the Administrative Bloc of the university.

Nehru Gram Bharati Vishwavidyalaya has been established in accordance with the ideals of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, who always wanted the establishment of institutes of higher education in rural areas so that the rural children need not go to cities for higher or technical education.

Washington, January 21 : A small community in the Applecross peninsula in Wester Ross, Scotland, is trying to attract GPs to apply for the vacancy of a family doctor highlighting the area's scenery, wildlife, and outdoor activities.

They are seeking a doctor's assistance to help their existing GP cover the spectacular but isolated area.

Since the residents were afraid that hey might have difficulty recruiting a suitable candidate, they are helping health officials to advertise the post, highlighting the area''s beauty.

They have started a website to attract candidates.

Gandhinagar (Gujarat), Jan. 21 : Special Investigation Team SIT) Chairman R. Raghavan on Wednesday said that report on the nine post-Godhra riot cases would be submitted to the Supreme Court before the February 15 deadline.

The SIT was constituted by the Supreme Court in March 2008, for reinvestigation of the Godhra train burning case and some post-Godhra riot cases of 2002.

The role of several prominent BJP and VHP leaders named by witnesses including the state Minister for Women and Child Development Maya Kodnani of the BJP and former VHP leader Jaydeep Patel is being re-investigated.

Washington, Jan. 21 : Change has come not only to the White House, but also to the official presidential limousine.

On the day he was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama shuttled around Washington in a virtually impenetrable armored Cadillac, which had doors at least five inches thick, reports the New York Daily News.

Obama''''s official car is a hybrid of a different sort. It has variously been described as part car, part truck and part tank.