New Delhi, Sept 22 : Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today said he would draw the world community’s attention to the need for reform of the UN and to address global challenges such as the food and energy crises, terrorism and progress on the Millennium Development Goals with world leaders during his visit to the United States and France.

New Delhi, Sept 22: Officials from India and Pakistan will meet here today to discuss the modalities for launching cross Line-of-Control (LoC) trade and other Confidence-Building Measures (CBMs) related to Jammu and Kashmir.

In an effort to ensure early start of new measures, the Joint Working Group on cross-LoC and CBMs, comprising senior officials, will seek to exchange ideas of the two sides.

Issue like the launch of commerce on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad route will be discussed during the talks.

Ranchi, Sep. 21 : Sudhir Mahto, the Deputy Chief Minister of Jharkhand, was a furious and an embarrassed man on Friday after finding his personal belonging missing from the State Assembly, the building of the State Legislature.

“I really don''t know how should I react. Sometimes it seems so funny. How can I loose my bag that too from Assembly? It''s really shocking. I never expected that such kind of a thing can happen inside Assembly too. I lost four mobiles, around 10,000 rupees in cash and some documents," said Sudhir Mahto, the deputy Chief Minister.

The incident left one and all smiling and surprised.

Chandigarh, Sept 21 : Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Sunday said that extraordinary laws to deal with terror are prone to misuse.

Jammu, Sept 21 : Hundreds of school children lighted candles and sang hymns to mark World Peace Day in Jammu on Sunday.

In 1981 the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution declaring September 21 as ‘World Peace Day’.

The students and their teachers prayed for peace in strife-torn Kashmir valley and the world at large.

Sister Phyllis, principal of a public school in Jammu stressed the need to maintain peace.

Bhubaneswar, Sept 21 : Relief work has been speeded up in Orissa, which is facing floods by one of India''s largest rivers killing 16 people and forcing evacuation of some 200,000 at the weekend.

Large parts of the coastal Orissa were inundated after authorities were forced to open dozens of sluice gates of a dam on the Mahanadi River following heavy rain in the catchment’s area.

Flood victims said though they have been saved from drowning, but all their belongings and wealth were destroyed.