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Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the UN ‘High-Level Dialogue on Desertification, Land degradation and Drought’, through video conferencing, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo)

India to restore 26 million acres of degarded land, says PM Modi

'Sadly, land degradation affects over two-thirds of the world today,' Modi said

15 Jun 2021 6:59 AM

Researchers from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) work to control bird flu in Indonesia. (Photo- UN news)

To prevent outbreaks like COVID-19, zoonotic diseases need to be curbed, says UN

COVID-19 is one of the worst zoonotic disease, but it is not the first. Ebola, SARS, MERS, HIV, Lyme disease preceded it, UNEP Director said

07 Jul 2020 12:41 PM

India received USD 51 billion in foreign investment in 2019. (PTI Photo)

Ninth largest recipient of FDI in 2019, India will continue to attract investments: UN

Investments from India are expected to decline in 2020, with largest MNEs revising their earnings down by 25% in early 2020 due to pandemic

16 Jun 2020 12:19 PM

WHO to review virus response as Trump renews attack. (AFP Photo)

WHO to review covid response after Trump attack

WHO Director-General Tedros us acknowledged there had been shortcomings and told the virtual assembly he welcomed calls for a review

19 May 2020 1:12 PM

TV grab taken from the World Health Organization website shows WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as he delivers a news briefing on COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) from the WHO headquarters in Geneva on March 30, 2020. (AFP)

Covid-19 is this century’s global inflection point

In the post-Covid-19 world the institutions of global governance would have to be revisited and remodelled

31 Mar 2020 11:56 AM

'Mamata Banerjee is indulging in anti-national activities. She is speaking the language of Pakistan. The elected Chief Minister is neither accepting the Parliament nor the President. In such a situation, she has no right to be in the post,' he said. (Photo: File)

Anti-CAA: 'Mamata Banerjee speaking Pakistan's language,' says BJP's Dilip Ghosh

He also accused Banerjee of speaking the language of Pakistan.

20 Dec 2019 6:11 PM

Green activists dumped horse manure and staged a mock hanging outside the venue of a UN climate summit in Madrid on Saturday, airing their frustration at the failure of world leaders to take meaningful action against global warming. (Photo: Screenshot)

Activists frustrated with climate talks dump horse manure outside Madrid summit

Attached to the pile of manure was a short message to leaders saying 'the horseshit stops here.'

15 Dec 2019 11:48 AM

The United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) has said that discriminatory legislation by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government has empowered people with "extremist mindsets" to carry out attacks on religious minorities. (Photo: File)

UN body slams Pak over ‘discrimination’ of religious minorities

The commission has cited several prominent examples to substantiate that minorities in the country are portrayed as second class citizens.

15 Dec 2019 11:35 AM

Attacks targeting UN personnel working to help the Afghan people are unconscionable, and we condemn this act in the strongest possible terms, Pompeo said. (Photo: AP)

Indian-American Anil Raj killed in a terrorist attack in Kabul

There were five other civilians who were injured, including staff, Pompeo told reporters at a news conference here.

27 Nov 2019 9:00 AM

The Foreign Office in a statement said Pakistan reaffirms the right of every child to grow, learn, play and flourish with dignity. (Photo: Representational | PTI)

World should keep in mind plight of children in Kashmir: Pak

Pakistan has been trying to internationalise the Kashmir issue.

20 Nov 2019 9:02 PM

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has written a letter to the UN Secretary General and the President of the Security Council to reject India's decision to bifurcate Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, the Foreign Office said on Monday. (Photo: File)

Pak FM Qureshi writes letter to top UN officials to reject bifurcation of Kashmir

At Pakistan's request, Qureshi's letter has since been circulated to the UN membership as an official document of the Security Council.

19 Nov 2019 12:06 PM

Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg departed the United States on Wednesday, hitching a ride to Europe aboard a catamaran to attend a UN climate summit in Madrid. (Photo: File)

'We sail for home!' Greta Thunberg on her way to UN climate summit

During her trip, Greta excoriated world leaders at the United Nations, met former US president Barack Obama.

14 Nov 2019 9:42 AM

"Unless the UK urgently changes course and alleviates his inhumane situation, Assange's continued exposure to arbitrariness and abuse may soon end up costing his life," the UN special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, Nils Melzer, said in a statement. (Photo: File)

UK's treatment of Julian Assange putting his life 'at risk': UN expert

Assange is facing extradition request by US over charges he violated US Espionage Act by publishing military and diplomatic files in 2010.

02 Nov 2019 9:23 AM

Supreme Court dealing slowly with petitions on Kashmir situation: United Nations panel

The European Union MPs are the first high-level foreign delegation to Kashmir since August 5.

29 Oct 2019 8:21 PM

Asserting that international scrutiny of the murder of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi was "absolutely required", a UN official on Sunday expressed disappointment that the world body's Secretary-General Antonio Guterres did not demand a criminal investigation into the matter. (Photo: File)

'UN chief hasnt shown courage,' says Official on Jamal Khashoggi's killing

The report revealed that the late Saudi journalist was the victim of a 'deliberate and premeditated execution'.

28 Oct 2019 9:49 AM

Xinhua quoted the World Food Programme (WFP), a food-assistance branch of UN as saying that it has so far provided food assistance to 8,850 newly-arrived Syrian refugees. (Photo: ANI)

'Number of Syrian refugees crossing into Iraq from Syria has increased': UN

Turkey had launched the offensive on Oct 9 after US announced withdrawal of its troops from northern Syria.

26 Oct 2019 12:42 PM

US President Donald Trump's decision to withhold USD 2 billion of the USD 3 billion pledged by his predecessor, Barack Obama, has contributed to a shortfall other countries haven't managed to fill. (Photo: File)

Without help from US, UN climate fund struggles to meet goal

The fund supports projects that help poor countries tackle climate change, both by reducing emissions and responding to inevitable impacts.

24 Oct 2019 5:21 PM

India has voiced disappointment that the NRC in Assam is being "wrongly linked with the minority rights issue and asserted that one should not jump to conclusions based on "incomplete understanding" after a UN expert raised alarm over a potential "humanitarian crisis" due to the exercise. (Photo: File)

Disappointed over NRC being wrongly linked with issue of minority rights: India at UN

First Secretary in India's Permanent Mission to the UN Paulomi Tripath said updating National Registrar of Citizens (NRC) is a statutory.

24 Oct 2019 12:16 PM

The United Nations Headquarters in New York will remain closed in the forthcoming weekend due to the ongoing cash crisis. (Photo: ANI)

UN Headquarters to remain closed in the weekend due to budget crunch

It should be noted that the war-wracked Syria was the last country to have paid up its dues to organisation by end of the 30-day due period.

19 Oct 2019 11:00 AM

India has slammed Pakistan for raising the issue of Jammu and Kashmir at a forum of the UN, saying the country employs "empty rhetoric" to serve its "distorted agenda" and continues to engage in spreading unsubstantiated allegations. (Photo: File)

India slams Pak for raising Kashmir issue at UN

India maintains Kashmir is a bilateral issue with Pakistan and no third party has any role in it.

19 Oct 2019 10:46 AM

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