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Award winning Journalist Richa Lakhera releases latest book: CONTAMINATION
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 23 (ANI/GPRC): Bestselling author, Richa Lakhera recently released her latest Supernatural - Combat, Fantasy - Adventure fiction book titled 'CONTAMINATION'. Published by Om Books International, one of the largest English-language trade publishers in t
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Uyghur community holds photo exhibition in Vienna to highlight rights abus
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Vienna [Austria], September 23 (ANI): A photo exhibition was organised by the Uyghur Association in Vienna on September 22 to showcase ongoing human rights abuses in China's Xinjiang province.
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At UNGA, Portuguese PM calls for India's inclusion in security council
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [US], September 23 (ANI): Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa on Thursday called for UNSC reform that should include representation of India, Brazil and Africa continent at the UN Security Council.
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G4 slam lack of meaningful progress on Security Council reform
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [US], September 23 (ANI): The Group of Four (G4) foreign ministers on Thursday expressed concern at the continued lack of meaningful progress in the Inter-Governmental Negotiations (IGN) on Security Council (SC) reform and renewed their determination to work towards commencing text-
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Jaishankar meets Chinese counterpart at BRICS ministerial in New York
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [US], September 23 (ANI): After attacking China for blocking the designation of Pakistan-based terrorists in the relevant United Nations (UN) sanctions committee, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi at a BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and
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World cannot afford a nuclear catastrophe: UN Secretary amid concerns over
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [US], September 22 (ANI): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday expressed concerns over the situation of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in conflict-ravaged Ukraine and said that any damage to nuclear infrastructure could have terrible consequences for people in
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Nations maintaining "close ties" with Moscow concerned about Putin's invas
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [US], September 22 (ANI): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ramped up criticism of Russia for its war in Ukraine on Thursday and noted that countries including those maintaining "close ties" with Moscow, have publicly condemned the conflict.
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Iran: UN experts demand accountability for Mahsa Amini's death
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 22 (ANI): UN experts on Thursday strongly condemned the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody after her arrest for allegedly failing to comply with Iran's strict rules on women's dress by wearing an "improper hijab".
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Faced with delays in entry to Delhi airport, staff seek DIAL intervention
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 22 (ANI): Staff at the airport in the national capital have written to Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) urging its intervention to redress the issue of the huge amount of time they are forced to spend entering the airport, due to which they fear sala
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Myanmar spiralling 'from bad to worse, to horrific', says rights expert
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 22 (ANI): Since the Myanmar military launched its "disastrous" coup last year, conditions have worsened, said UN-appointed independent human rights expert Tom Andrews on Wednesday.
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MoU inked between NCC, UN Environment Programme in New Delhi to achieve un
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 22 (ANI): National Cadet Corps (NCC) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the presence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi on Thursday to tackle the issue of plastic pollution and achieve the goa
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High time for Human Rights Council to address issues in Tibet as CCP regim
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Lhasa [Tibet], September 22 (ANI): World has turned its attention towards Tibet once again as the United Nations (UN) has failed to discuss the crisis unfolding in Tibet in its fifty-first regular session at the Palais des Nations in Geneva so far despite the unlawful suppression of Tibet
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