A new COP29 draft finance deal on Friday proposes rich countries commit USD 250 billion a year to help vulnerable nations cope with the warming planet and to accelerate the global switch to renewable energy.
Further, the organisation emphasised that the Netherlands has a legal duty to prevent violations of international law, including the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.
The year 2024 has become the deadliest on record for humanitarian personnel, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today, citing data from the Aid Worker Security Database.
USA cricketers Unmukt Chand and Saurabh Netravalkar, West Indies' Dwayne Smith and Rahkeem Cornwall are among the marquee players featuring in the upcoming United States Premier League (USPL) season 3 scheduled to kick off on Friday at the Broward County Stadium in Florida.
Amid the row surrounding the alleged bribery charges against industrialist Gautam Adani and other executives by the United States, researcher and senior journalist RN Bhaskar has claimed that this whole episode is a play to "blackmail India."
Following the US prosecutors charging Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani and others in alleged Solar Energy Contract bribery case, Vidya Bhushan Soni, former Indian Ambassador to Bangladesh downplayed concerns over the framing of charges, emphasising that the Indian government is not involved
The domestic stock markets on the last working day of the week erased the losses after taking support from positive global cues that included an indication of strength in the labor market of the United States and positive sentiments in other Asian markets.
Former Cabinet Minister Smriti Irani joined an roundtable discussion hosted by Chairman of Ajman Government Executive Council Sheikh Rashid bin Humaid Al Nuaimi, aimed at strengthening the bilateral ties between India and the United Arab Emirates at Ajman on Friday.
Amid the chaos over a United States (US) court charging Gautam Adani with allegations of "bribery and fraud," Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) spokesperson Saravana Annadurai on Friday claimed that corruption in Tamil Nadu started when former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa signed a power agreeme
The United States on Friday rejected the International Criminal Court's (ICC) decision to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, who are accused of "crimes against humanity and war crimes."