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  'Scalable, cost-effective': PM Modi headlines India's tech power at UNGA

  India | September 25, 2021 19:26 IST

  Modi 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 | September 24, 2021 23:26 IST

  Biden 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 | September 24, 2021 8:27 IST

  The 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 | September 20, 2021 11:38 IST

  On 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 | August 22, 2021 9:17 IST

  US 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 | July 24, 2021 8:22 IST

  UNGA 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 | September 26, 2020 8:04 IST

  After 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 | September 25, 2020 23:27 IST

  The 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 | September 28, 2019 13:02 IST

  Pakistan 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 | September 27, 2019 21:26 IST

  In 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 | September 26, 2019 12:43 IST

  The 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 | September 26, 2017 8:10 IST

  For 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 | September 26, 2017 6:20 IST

  Sushma'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 | September 25, 2017 10:51 IST

  In 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 | September 24, 2017 13:33 IST

  North 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 | September 24, 2017 16:56 IST

  Terming 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 | September 24, 2017 10:41 IST

  In 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 | September 24, 2017 8:06 IST

  Intensifying 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 | September 24, 2017 10:58 IST

  Swaraj 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 | September 21, 2017 8:38 IST

  Pakistan’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