Unga Meeting
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'Scalable, cost-effective': PM Modi headlines India's tech power at UNGA
India | Sep 25, 2021, 07:26 PM ISTModi began his speech on a deeply personal note, rewinding to his roots as a "poor boy" who sold tea in a small town and rose to the country's highest political office.
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'The whole purpose of this meeting...': When Biden joked about his possible India connection with PM
India | Sep 24, 2021, 11:26 PM ISTBiden joked that he was never able to track down his Indian connection, so the whole purpose of the meeting with PM Modi is to help him figure it out.
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PM Modi to meet Joe Biden at White House today: What's on agenda
India | Sep 24, 2021, 08:27 AM ISTThe two countries will discuss some exchange of favours on some issues - with rain-check to be cashed in future; to resolve, papering over of irritants, contentious issues in bilateral US-India relations; to identify areas of cooperation for regional and global affairs, for mutual win-win.
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India to take up issues like terrorism, vaccines, climate change at UNGA: Ambassador Tirumurti
India | Sep 20, 2021, 11:38 AM ISTOn climate change, Tirumurti said India is the only G-20 country which is on course to meet the Paris Targets.
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Prevent UNGA from being super-spreader event: US urges world leaders to send video statements
World | Aug 22, 2021, 09:17 AM ISTUS has urged world leaders to deliver their statements to the UN General Assembly’s annual session next month by video.
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UN adopts first resolution on vision, aims to help 1 billion
World | Jul 24, 2021, 08:22 AM ISTUNGA approved its first-ever resolution on vision Friday, calling on its 193 member nations to ensure access to eye care for everyone in their countries.
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Rules brought in J&K are strictly internal affairs of India, says Mijito in response to Pak at UNGA
India | Sep 26, 2020, 08:04 AM ISTAfter Prime Minister Imran Khan raised the Kashmir issue in the 75th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Friday, India requested to exercise the Right to Reply in response to Pakistan's statements.
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Indian delegate walks out from UNGA hall as Pak PM begins speech | Video
World | Sep 25, 2020, 11:27 PM ISTThe Indian delegate walked out from 75th UN General Assembly hall on Friday as Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan began his diatribe in his speech.
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Imran Khan's 'borrowed' Saudi jet develops technical glitch mid air
World | Sep 28, 2019, 01:02 PM ISTPakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and his delegation returned to New York after the plane given to him by the Saudi Arabia government, developed a technical fault while it was heading back to Islamabad.
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Who is Tamil poet Kaniyan Pungundranar ?
Fyi | Sep 27, 2019, 09:26 PM ISTIn his 16 minutes 50 seconds speech at the UNGA, PM Narendra Modi invoked Tamil Poet Kaniyan Pungundranar. The quote when translated in English means 'we have a sense of belonging to every place and everyone is our own'.
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Venezuelan, Iranian officials banned from entering US
World | Sep 26, 2019, 12:43 PM ISTThe US has announced that senior Venezuelan and Iranian officials, as well as their families, will from now on be banned from entering America. This measure announced on Wednesday as part of two declarations signed by President Donald Trump
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Use of fake picture of Palestinian girl ‘backfired’ on India, claims Pakistan
World | Sep 26, 2017, 08:10 AM ISTFor contrast, Paulomi Tripathi held up a picture of the body of Lt. Umar Faiyaz surrounded by mourners, and another of Lodhi displaying the fake picture.
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Sushma Swaraj's UNGA speech 'arrogant' but there is terrorism in Pakistan: Chinese daily
World | Sep 26, 2017, 06:20 AM ISTSushma's speech denouncing Pakistan riled up all-weather friend China, whose official media termed it as "bigotry".
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Phoney image to targeting PM Modi: How an ‘uphinged’ Pak cried foul on Swaraj’s UNGA speech
World | Sep 25, 2017, 10:51 AM ISTIn her attempt to defame India at the international forum, Maleeha tried to pass off picture of a Palestinian girl as of a pellet gun victim from Kashmir
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'They won't be around much longer': Donald Trump's fresh warning to North Korea's 'Little Rocket Man'
World | Sep 24, 2017, 01:33 PM ISTNorth Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho yesterday attacked Trump at the UN General Assembly, deriding him as a "mentally deranged"
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India 'mother of terrorism' in South Asia: Pakistan fumes over Swaraj's UNGA address
World | Sep 24, 2017, 04:56 PM ISTTerming India as the "mother of terrorism" in South Asia, Pakistan's ambassador to the UN Maleeha Lodhi accused it of sponsoring terrorism in various parts of her country
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'Furious' Pakistan invokes Arundhati Roy to attack Sushma Swaraj's speech at UN General Assembly
World | Sep 24, 2017, 10:41 AM ISTIn her address earlier in the day, Swaraj said Pakistan was only interested in fighting India and sponsoring state terrorism.
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US bombers fly off North Korean coast, Pyongyang says rockets to US ‘inevitable’
World | Sep 24, 2017, 08:06 AM ISTIntensifying the rhetoric between the two nations, North Korea said on Saturday that firing its rockets at the US mainland was “inevitable” after US President Donald Trump called Kim Jong-un a “rocket man”
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We made IITs and IIMs, Pakistan produced Lashkar and Jaish: Swaraj at UN General Assembly
World | Sep 24, 2017, 10:58 AM ISTSwaraj accused Pakistan of waging a war against India and said that if it used its resources to stamp out terrorists in its territory the world would get rid of the scourge of terrorism
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Our short-range nuclear weapons will take on India’s ‘Cold Start’ doctrine, says Pak PM
World | Sep 21, 2017, 08:38 AM ISTPakistan’s interim Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on Wednesday that his country has developed short-range nuclear weapons which will counter the ‘Cold Start’ doctrine adopted by the Indian Army