In the present paper, we study certain differential inequalities involving meromorphic functions in the open unit disk and obtain certain sufficient conditions for starlikeness and close -to -convexity of meromorphic functions. In particular, we obtain: 1. If f(z) E sigma p satisfies the differential inequality | 1 +zf ''(z)f '(z)+p divided by divided by divided by divided by<12, z is an element of E, | then f(z) is meromorphic close -to -convex function. 2. If f(z) E sigma satisfies the differential inequality |zf '(z)/f(z)+ 1 divided by(1-gamma )divided by 1 +zf ''(z)/f '(z)-zf '(z)f(z)divided by divided by divided by divided by gamma<1-alpha(1 +|1-2 alpha|)gamma, gamma >= 0, z is an element of E, then f(z) is meromorphic starlike function of order alpha.