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  UN panel adopts landmark climate report

  World | November 02, 2014 8:28 IST

  Copenhagen: The United Nations' expert panel on climate science has finished a report on global warming that the UN's environment agency said offers "conclusive evidence" that humans are altering the Earth's climate system.The document, which

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  Racial discrimination in US cause of concern: UN panel

  World | August 30, 2014 7:45 IST

  Geneva: The United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) Friday said that racial and ethnic discrimination in the US remain a major cause of concern.In its concluding observation on the periodic report

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  UN panel asks India to act against poaching in Manas sanctuary

  India | July 13, 2014 13:31 IST

  New Delhi: Expressing serious concern over poaching of rhinos in Assam's Manas Wildlife Sanctuary, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee has warned India of including the wildlife reserve in “the List of World Heritage in Danger”

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  Wage war on corruption, India tells UN

  World | October 10, 2012 19:59 IST

  United Nations, Oct 10: India has called for a war on corruption and transparency in governance.BJP leader L.K. Advani made the appeal as an Indian delegate at a UN panel. He read out a prepared