In what comes as huge relief to Afghan teachers, who remain unpaid for months, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF has said it will pay a fixed stipend for two months to support them
Bangladesh is taking a bold step in joining the mission after the catastrophic end to the previous UN mission with military peacekeepers ended in 2017 amid accusations that Nepali troops introduced a strain of cholera from South Asia.
The report released on Tuesday said that in contrast to large swathes of the developing countries, “investment in South Asia, particularly in India, remains strong”.
The unanimity at the UN underscores the fears over AI’s potential to disrupt politics and society through deep fakes and spreading misinformation, and its more sinister capabilities in warfare, development of weapons and disrupting economies.
In what comes as huge relief to Afghan teachers, who remain unpaid for months, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF has said it will pay a fixed stipend for two months to support them
Tirumurti expressed India's support for the Minsk Agreements and the Normandy format of diplomacy for finding a solution to the Ukraine situation
The United Kingdom will co-host next month an international aid conference for Afghanistan with the United Nations, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss confirmed on Tuesday, as the UN seeks $4.4 billion, the largest the UN has ever sought for a single country for meeting the growing humanitarian needs
The lack of progress in the investigations involving the killings of journalists in Bangladesh highlights an “appalling and pervasive culture of impunity” in the country, the United Nations’ human rights monitors said, urging authorities to “conduct thorough, independent and effective investigations”
'There are no recent signs that the Taliban has taken steps to limit the activities of foreign terrorist fighters in the country', the UN report said
About eight to nine people, who were among 76 listed as missing by the United States, have reappeared, a senior Bangladesh official said, amid reports that authorities were coercing families to give false testimonies about victims
A UN rights body has called for the release of four Afghan women activists and their relatives detained or arrested by the Taliban in the last few weeks
Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaat-ud-Dawa has a charity wing Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation which was banned by Pakistan in 2019 amid intense global pressure
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condoled the death of Indian singing legend Lata Mangeshkar, calling her the “voice of an entire subcontinent.”
The Taliban haven’t taken any steps to limit the activities of foreign fighters; they, in fact, enjoy greater freedom under them
India has underlined the need to distinguish between political ideologies, that are part of a pluralistic democratic polity, and radical ideologies that subscribe to terrorism, emphasisng that any attempt to paint both of them with the same brush will be "counterproductive"
India called for deescalating the tensions around Ukraine through a diplomatic solution that addresses “legitimate security interests of all” as the United States and Russia clashed in the Security Council on Monday
The Taliban has killed over 100 individuals, who had earlier worked with the former Afghan government and the US-led military alliance in the country since August last year, a new UN report has said
India has said that its approach to Afghanistan has always been guided by its "special relationship" with the Afghan people and New Delhi remains steadfast in its commitment towards much-needed humanitarian assistance to the people of the war-torn country, and will provide 50,000 MT of wheat and lifesaving medicines and one million doses of COVID vaccines as it had pledged
If civilians are to be protected in urban conflicts, the international community should take an unequivocal stand against terrorism and oppose attempts to justify it, India has told the UN Security Council