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Greta Thunberg donates USD 100,000 to UNICEF to protect children during CO
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 1 (ANI): Sweden-based climate activist Greta Thunberg has announced that she was donating USD 100,000 in prize money she had received from the Danish NGO Human Act to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to support their work in protecting children hit by the
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India calls on G20 nations for a concrete digital action plan to fight COV
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 1 (ANI): A virtual G20 Digital Economy Ministers meeting was convened on Thursday to discuss the challenges posed by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and to forge a global coordinated response harnessing digital technologies.
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TS Tirumurti is India's new Permanent Representative to UN
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 29 (ANI): TS Tirumurti has been appointed the Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations (UN) at New York, said the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Wednesday.
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India providing pharma assistance to nearly 85 nations to support COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 28 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday participated in the BRICS Foreign Ministers meeting during which he highlighted the pharma assistance being provided by India to nearly 85 countries on a grant basis to support their response against the cor
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UN urges Bangladesh to take in 500 Rohingyas stranded at sea
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 28 (ANI): The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has urged Bangladesh to "immediately allow" two boats with 500 Rohingya refugees onboard "to come ashore and receive necessary food, water and health care."
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SAAF-AFI online seminar witnesses massive participation
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 28 (ANI): The Athletics Federation of India's (AFI) online seminar for track and field sport's technical officials witnessed massive participation from across South Asian Athletics Federation (SAAF) member nations.
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UN to screen Earth Anthem penned by poet-diplomat Abhay K
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Antananarivo [Madagascar], April 26 (ANI): The United Nations, Department of Global Communications, Civil Society Unit along with DGC Civil Society Youth Representatives Steering Committee will host a youth-led live event to commemorate Earth Day on Monday (April 27) from 9 am-11 am (local t
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Jaishankar speaks to Comoros counterpart, discusses health cooperation
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 25 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said he talked to his Comoros counterpart Mohamed El-Amine Souef, adding that health cooperation and development partnership between the two nations will surely grow further.
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African nations tell China to keep its money or cut strings attached to lo
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Nairobi [Kenya], April 25 (ANI): In the Covid environment, African nations are closely scrutinising the cost-benefit analysis of Chinese investments and the conditions attached to such funds.
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UNCTAD predicts $3.4 trillion debt for developing countries amid COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 25 (ANI): Developing countries' repayments on their public external debt alone will soar to between 2.6 trillion and 3.4 trillion USD in 2020 and 2021, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has said in a new report while calling for a glo
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COVID-19 vaccine must be considered public good with universal availabilit
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [USA], April 25 (ANI): The under-trial vaccine for coronavirus must be considered a global public good and made affordable with universal availability, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday (local time).
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Chitkara University features in Times Higher Education University Impact R
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], April 24 (ANI/ NewsVoir): Chitkara University is the only university from Punjab to feature in the top list of the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings 2020 released by Time Higher Education on April 22, 2020. The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings ar
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