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'India continuing to show it won't back down from China's aggression': Nik
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 02 (ANI): Former US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, on Wednesday (local time) hailed India's action to ban 59 apps linked to Chinese firms including Tik Tok and said New Delhi is continuing to show it will not back down from China's aggression.
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UN experts appalled by enforced disappearance of Pak activist Idris Khatta
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 2 (ANI): UN human rights experts have condemned the enforced disappearance of Idris Khattak, a Pakistani human rights defender, calling it an "intolerable attack" on his legitimate work against a range of human rights and minority violations in the Khyber Pakhtunkh
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UNSC meets in-person on Wednesday for first time since COVID-19 lockdown:
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New York [US], July 2 (Sputnik/ANI): The members of the UN Security Council on Wednesday held an in-person meeting for the first time since mid-March, the council's president for the month of July, German Ambassador to the United Nations Christoph Heusgen said in a press briefing.
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Russia unanimously voted for Putin to remain President till 2036: Prelimin
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], July 2 (ANI): Russia President Vladimir Putin will continue to hold his post till 2036 as the citizens on Wednesday voted in favour of the country's political status quo, the preliminary results have predicted.
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India keeping a close watch on recent developments in Hong Kong, says perm
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 1 (ANI): India has been keeping a close watch on the recent developments in Hong Kong, said Rajiv Kumar Chander, the country's ambassador and permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, on Wednesday, and urged the global body to address related concerns 'seriousl
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lndra Mani Pandey appointed as India's Permanent Representative to UN, Gen
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): lndra Mani Pandey, an Indian Foreign Service officer of 1990 batch, has been appointed as the next Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, Geneva.
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Mike Pompeo urges UNSC to extend arms embargo against Iran
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], July 1 (ANI): US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday (local time) urged UN Security Council to extend the arms embargo on Iran which is scheduled to expire in October.
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Tremendous uncertainty remains on post-COVID-19 economic recovery - IMF Re
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 30 (Sputnik/ANI): The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is unable to say with certainty how will the global recovery from the coronavirus pandemic look like but the current rebound across the world is weaker than desired, IMF Research Director Gita Gopinath said.
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UN experts call for decisive measures against China for collective repress
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 29 (ANI): A group of independent experts have called upon the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to "act with a sense of urgency" in taking decisive measures to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms in Tibet and Xinjiang province.
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This isn't Manmohan Singh's govt which Gandhi family used to remote contro
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Rampur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 29 (ANI): Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday said that the Gandhi family is unable to understand that the current government is not that of former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh which they used to remote control.
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CA students unable to appear for exams should be considered opt-out cases,
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 29 (ANI): In a big relief for students pursuing chartered accountancy, the Supreme Court on Monday suggested the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) to consider the students who are unable to appear for the exam to be considered an "opt-out case" even i
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Two staffers of human rights organisation killed in Kabul
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 27 (ANI): Two employees of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) were killed in an IED explosion on Saturday morning in PD12 of Kabul in the Pul-e-Charkhi area in the east of the city.
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