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ADB, EAA Foundation to work for quality primary education for out-of-schoo
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Manila [The Philippines], July 9 (ANI): India is among the few countries that will benefit following an agreement between the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Qatar-based Education Above All (EAA) Foundation to carry out 100 million dollars in joint projects to put out-of-school and at-risk
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India, US hold foreign office consultations, reaffirm commitment towards f
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 7 (ANI): India and the US have reaffirmed their commitment to work towards ensuring a free, open, inclusive, peaceful and prosperous Indo-Pacific. They also agreed on the need to deepen cooperation in the United Nations, especially during India's membership of the U
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UNSC condemns 'heinous, cowardly' terror attack in Karachi
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [USA], July 2 (ANI): The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has condemned in the strongest terms the "heinous and cowardly terrorist attack" that took place at Pakistan stock exchange building in Pakistan's Karachi, killing 11 people.
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UN experts appalled by enforced disappearance of Pak activist Idris Khatta
Updated : 5 years, 9 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, 9 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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lndra Mani Pandey appointed as India's Permanent Representative to UN, Gen
Updated : 5 years, 9 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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UN experts call for decisive measures against China for collective repress
Updated : 5 years, 9 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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UN experts call for decisive measures to protect fundamental freedoms in C
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 26 (ANI): Independent experts from the United Nations have called for decisive measures to protect fundamental freedoms in China as they raised deep concerns over treatment of Uighur Muslim minority in Xinjiang and said the impending national security law concernin
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CRPF observes Anti Drug Day
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 26 (ANI): On the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, Dr AP Maheshwari, DG, CRPF highlighted that in the course of its duty in the LWE areas, Jammu and Kashmir and the North East, CRPF has destroyed large tracts of illegal marijuana plantation
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Honoured, had great conversation on efforts against COVID-19: Kerala Healt
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], June 24 (ANI): Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja on Wednesday participated in a United Nations panel discussion on World Public Service Day 2020, via video-conference.
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India pledges USD 10 mn to UNRWA for next two years, to send medical shipm
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 24 (ANI): India on Tuesday pledged USD 10 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and said that New Delhi will donate life-saving drugs to Palestine to help them in combatting the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Olympic Day: IOC joins hands with WHO, UN to promote physical, mental heal
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Lausanne [Switzerland], June 23 (ANI): On the occasion of Olympic Day, the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday joined hands with the United Nations and the World Health Organization to promote physical and mental health amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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