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11 pc of world's road accident deaths take place in India, says Nitin Gadk
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Stockholm [Sweden], Feb 21 (ANI): Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has said that 11 per cent of deaths in the world due to road accidents take place in India alone.
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Pakistan ranks 152nd in UN's Human Development Index, lower than others in
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Feb 21 (ANI): Pakistan has been ranked at 152nd position among 189 other countries in the Human Development Index (HDI) 2019, dropping it to the lowest than all other regional countries in South Asia.
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PM Modi to inaugurate UN Convention on Migratory Species through video con
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 17 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the United Nations (UN) Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) through video conferencing on Monday.
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Baloch activist urges UN Secy-Gen to take notice of humanitarian crisis in
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Balochistan [Pakistan], Feb 16 (ANI): Khalil Baloch, chairman of the Baloch National Movement (BNM) on Sunday urged the visiting United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to take immediate notice of the humanitarian crisis in Balochistan.
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UN chief Antonio Guterres arrives in Pakistan for four-day visit
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Feb 16: Antonio Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, arrived in Islamabad on Sunday for a four-day visit to the nation.
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EAM Jaishankar meets US representative to UN Kelly Craft
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Munich [Germany], Feb 15 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday (local time) met Kelly Craft, US representative to the United Nations and said working closely on global issues is an integral part of India-US strategic partnership.
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Portugal supports New Delhi's bid for UNSC permanent membership
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 14 (ANI): Portugal on Friday extended support for India's bid for a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), saying New Delhi is key to the balance of power in the world.
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Israel freezes ties with UN Rights Chief
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], Feb 13 (ANI): Israeli Foreign Ministry on Wednesday (local time) announced that the country is freezing ties with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights after the OHCHR published a blacklist of companies cooperating with Jewish settlements in t
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UN warns Africa's ongoing locust crisis could become 'major humanitarian p
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [US], Feb 12 (ANI): The United Nations has warned that the ongoing locust crisis in eastern Africa could become a major humanitarian plague.
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Palestinians reject US Peace Plan, Mahmoud Abbas tells UNSC
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [US], Feb 12 (ANI): Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday (local time) rejected the US President Donald Trump's Middle East Peace Plan at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
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Activist urges UN Secy Gen to pay urgent attention to state-sponsored terr
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [USA], Feb 11 (ANI): The Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC) has written to the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to pay urgent attention to state-sponsored terrorism in Balochistan during his upcoming tour to Pakistan.
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Pak to hold 2-day international conference on Afghan refugees from Feb 17
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Feb 9 (ANI): Ministers and senior officials from around 20 countries will participate in a two-day international conference on Afghan refugees being convened by the Pakistan government in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from
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