UNITED NATIONS: Five new countries – India, Mexico, Norway, Ireland and Kenya – formally joined the UN Security Council on Monday at a time of growing polarization in the body charged with maintaining world peace and security. They participated in a first meeting aimed at approving an agenda proposed by …
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UNITED NATIONS: India, which has been at the forefront of years’ efforts to reform the UN Security Council, will begin his two-year term as a non-permanent member of the powerful body of the world body on Friday. India will sit in the 15 nations United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for …
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The nations of the European Union launched a coordinated effort on Sunday to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to the most vulnerable among the bloc’s nearly 450 million inhabitants, marking a moment of hope in the continent’s battle against the worst crisis in public health in a century. Healthcare workers, the …
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India’s HDI value for 2019 is 0.645, which puts it in the medium human development category. New Delhi: India fell one place to 131 out of 189 countries in the 2020 Human Development Index, according to a report released by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The Human Development Index …
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NEW DELHI: One day before the virtual speech scheduled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to global climate action summitIndia said on Friday that the country, which is among the historically low contributors of carbon dioxide emissions, is not responsible for climate change but, as a responsible nation, has joined others …
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Human Rights Day: “Recover Better – Defend Human Rights” is the theme for 2020 Human Rights Day 2020: This year’s Human Rights Day focuses on the devastating consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on disadvantaged people, children and women and the need to “build back better by ensuring that human rights …
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Vaccines can sometimes cause allergic reactions, but they are usually rare and short-lived. British regulators are investigating reports of allergic reactions in two people who received the new Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, the first day of a vaccination program. Meanwhile, they are telling people to skip the vaccine if …
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United Nations: “People have the right to demonstrate peacefully and the authorities should allow them to do so,” said Antonio Guterres, spokesman for the UN Secretary-General on the farmers’ protests in India. India has called the statements by foreign leaders about the farmers’ protests “misinformed” and “unjustified” as the matter …
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People have the right to demonstrate peacefully and the authorities should allow them to do so, said the spokesman for the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, of the protests by farmers in India. India has called the statements by foreign leaders about the farmers’ protests “misinformed” and “unjustified” as the …
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Authorities must allow people to exercise their right to demonstrate peacefully, said the spokesman for the UN secretary general, António Guterres, regarding the protest by farmers in India. The comments came shortly after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government had relayed its concerns about the farmers’ protest to …
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