New Delhi, Nov 14 : Union Minister of Human Resource Development Arjun Singh today called upon the children to stay united, to interact and intermingle, to show compassion and to be sensitive towards others.

New Delhi, Nov 14 : The nation today paid homage to the first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, on his 119th birth anniversary.

Because of Nehru''s affection for children, the day is also observed as Children''s Day.

In New Delhi, a function was organized in the central Hall of Parliament where leaders of various political parties offered floral tributes to him. Early in the morning an all religion prayer meeting was held at his Samadhi at Shanti Van.

New Delhi - A moon impact probe on board India's first lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 was expected to hit the lunar surface Friday evening, an official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (IS

New Delhi - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Thursday that India's message to the G20 nations would be that every effort must be made to ensure that the global financial crisis had minimum impact on developing countries.

Singh, who is scheduled to join leaders of the world's top 20 economies to discuss the crisis at a summit in Washington on Saturday, was speaking at a press briefing in the Indian capital after a meeting of a regional group of South and South East Asian nations.

New Delhi, Nov 13 : Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh said on Thursday that G-20 would be urged to protect the developing economies from the effects of global recession.

Emerging economies of the G20 are expected to demand a greater say in global financial decision-making at their summit with industrialised nations after the crisis put major nations on the verge of recession.