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  India calls for cooperation between FATF, UN to combat terror financin

  World | October 10, 2019 11:31 IST

  Speaking at a General Assembly Sixth Committee meeting on ‘measures to eliminate international terrorism’, First Secretary/Legal adviser in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN Yedla Umasankar on Wednesday called for increased cooperation between the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the UN to combat terror financing.

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  You are failing us: Teen climate activist at UN climate talks

  World | September 24, 2019 11:11 IST

  As they made their pledges at the Climate Action Summit, though, they and others conceded it was not enough. And even before they spoke, teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg shamed them over and over for their inaction: “How dare you?”

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  Iran dismisses prospect of talks with Trump at UN

  World | September 23, 2019 13:34 IST

  Speaking at the Iranian mission to the UN in New York, Tehran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told the Independent newspaper on Sunday that "maximum pressure" from the US has produced "maximum resistance" from Iran, and that Tehran will continue to resist.

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  Baloch activists urge Modi to raise rights abuse at UN

  World | September 19, 2019 18:36 IST

  Wishing Modi on his birthday, Ashraf tweeted: "Don't forget the repressed people of Balochistan. Give them voice and raise the issue at all international fora, including United Nations. Baloch are also human beings, they have a right to live with dignity."

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  Indian delegation to visit US ahead of PM's address to UNGA

  India | September 15, 2019 22:28 IST

  An Indian delegation of political leaders and foreign policy experts will be visiting the United States ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit there address the United National General Assembly on September 27.

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  Enforced disappearances from PoK, secret detentions of people: OHCHR

  India | September 03, 2019 13:51 IST

  The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), commonly known as the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, has made several recommendations to the Pakistani authorities to address these violations. 

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  New UN global warming report sees hungry future that can be avoided

  World | August 08, 2019 18:28 IST

  The report said climate change already has worsened land degradation, caused deserts to grow, permafrost to thaw and made forests more vulnerable to drought, fire, pests and disease. That’s happened even as much of the globe has gotten greener because of extra carbon dioxide in the air. Climate change has also added to other forces that have reduced the number of species on Earth.

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  Gautam Gambhir reminds Shahid Afridi of PoK after he calls for UN intervention in Kashmir

  Cricket | August 06, 2019 11:09 IST

  The Rajya Sabha passed the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill that sought to scrap Article 370 and Article 35A in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday.

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  UN panel lauds India's digital initiatives for economic inclusion

  World | June 13, 2019 14:28 IST

  IndiaStack is a set of Application Programming Interface that allows governments, businesses, startups and developers to utilise a unique digital infrastructure to solve India's hard problems towards presence-less, paperless and cashless service delivery, its website said.

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  India sends fresh women CAPF contingent for UN duties in Africa

  India | June 08, 2019 17:48 IST

  "The United Nations has been seeking deployment of a female engagement team (FET) in its missions as part of its gender parity/sensitisation initiative."

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  Pakistan takes action after UN bans Masood Azhar

  News | May 03, 2019 12:05 IST

  Pakistan takes action after UN bans Masood Azhar

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  Failure to designate Masood Azhar as global terrorist against regional stability, peace: US

  India | March 13, 2019 8:07 IST

  The JeM, headed by the 50-year-old Azhar, carried out many terror strikes in India and was involved in the attack on Parliament, the Pathankot air force base, army camps in Jammu and Uri, and the latest suicide attack on CRPF in Pulwama which claimed the lives of 40 personnel.

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  Impossible to build multipolar world without relevant role of India: Antonio Guterres

  World | October 01, 2018 22:29 IST

  "India is becoming a fundamental pillar of multilateralism, and at the same time, as we want a multipolar world, it is impossible to build a multipolar world without a very relevant role of India," Guterres said.   

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  UN has no right to interfere in Myanmar: Army chief

  World | September 24, 2018 22:44 IST

  This is his first reaction after the experts recommended that the military chief and other senior officers of the Myanmar Army be investigated over the rapes and killings of Rohingyas in Rakhine state, reports Efe news.  

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  Sushma Swaraj may meet her Pakistani counterpart in UN next month: report

  India | August 27, 2018 17:08 IST

  However, the External Affairs Ministry has not announced any such meeting.

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  Myanmar generals must be prosecuted for genocide: UN report

  World | August 27, 2018 14:28 IST

  The report -- based on hundreds of interviews, research and analysis by a UN-mandated fact-finding mission -- is the strongest condemnation by the UN of the Myanmar military's actions following the crackdown on Rohingya Muslims last August.  

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  Migrants don't have 'unfettered right' to choose their host country: UN

  World | July 19, 2018 23:01 IST

  UNHCR welcomed the actions taken this week by six European countries - France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Spain and Portugal - to take a share of around 450 refugees and migrants stranded in the Mediterranean amid a battle over where the rescue ship should dock

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  Bipin Rawat questions UN report over army's behaviour in Jammu and Kashmir

  News | June 27, 2018 13:29 IST

  Bipan Rawat questions UN report over army's behaviour in Jammu and Kashmir

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  J&K an integral & inevitable part of the country: India at UNGA

  India | June 26, 2018 8:01 IST

  The UN, earlier in June, had released the first-ever report on alleged human rights violation in Kashmir and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and demanded an international probe into it, evoking a sharp reaction from India which had termed the document as "fallacious and motivated".

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  US withdraws from UNHRC, calls it 'cesspool of political bias'

  World | June 20, 2018 6:30 IST

  The announcement came after the top UN human rights official criticised Washington for separating migrant children from their parents who are seeking asylum after crossing into the country from Mexico.