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Give Your Medical & Engineering Dreams the Right Start with UNSAT 2023
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Bangalore (Karnataka) [India], September 23: Unacademy, India’s largest learning platform* announced the third edition of the Unacademy National Scholarship Admission Test (UNSAT), its biggest scholarship test supporting the growing aspirations of IIT JEE and NEET UG Learners. UNSAT is a gat
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UAE Foreign Minister hosts official reception in New York
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
The reception, held at the headquarters of the UAE's permanent mission to the UN, was attended by a number of heads of state and government, foreign ministers of Gulf, Arab and other foreign countries, along with senior officials of international organisations and the US administration, a
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Pak caretaker PM Kakar rakes up Kashmir at UNGA, India's right to reply on
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Pakistan caretaker Prime Minister Anwarul Haq Kakar on Friday predictably raised the Kashmir bogey in his speech at the UN General Assembly. Kakar claimed that the Jammu and Kashmir issue is among the longest-standing items on the UN agenda.
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G4 nations call for UNSC expansion; support each other’s candidature
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
The Foreign Ministers of G4 countries — India, Brazil, Germany and Japan — met on the margins of the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly and discussed the reformation of the UN Security Council.
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“Voices of women will become louder”: PM Modi after women’s quota Bill pas
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Terming the 'unanimous' passage of the women's quota Bill — titled 'Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam' — in the Rajya Sabha as a historic moment, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday congratulated fellow countrymen saying that with the passage of the draft legislation, which will
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‘We are not powerless’ to overcome climate crisis, COP28 President-Design
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Dr. Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and COP28 President-Designate, addressed today the UN Climate Ambition Summit in New York, where he reminded the international community that “we are not powerless” to overcome the climate crisis and urged the world
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“Humanity has opened gates to hell”: UN Secretary General António Guterres
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
“Horrendous heat is having horrendous effects. Distraught farmers watching crops carried away by floods. Sweltering temperatures spawning disease,” he said in a speech to open the Climate Ambition Summit, happening alongside the UN General Assembly in New York, as per CNN.
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India, Brazil, Germany, Japan should be permanent members of UNSC: UK Fore
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly called for an expansion of the United Nations Security Council, backing India's bid for a permanent membership of the UN body, along with Brazil, Germany and Japan.
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West ‘selectively’ turns to principles of UN Charter based on parochial ge
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday (local time) accused the West of selectively turning to principles of the UN Charter on a case-by-case basis based on their "parochial geopolitical needs."
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UNCTAD projects USD5 trillion+ investment needed to achieve SDGs by 2030
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
A new report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) finds that the world needs to invest between USD1,179 and USD1,383 per person, per year, to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
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UN finds itself in 'deadlock' on issue of aggression: Zelenskyy slams Russ
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Slamming Russia at the United Nations Security Council over its invasion of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that the UN finds itself in 'deadlock' on the issue of aggression.
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Paraguay, Israel to elevate relations to ‘new heights’
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
In a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, Paraguayan President Santiago Pena reiterated the commitment that his country’s embassy will move to Jerusalem by the end of the year.
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