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ET World Leaders Forum: We must keep eyes wide open while dealing with China, says Shashi TharoorShashi Tharoor highlights the UN's declining effectiveness due to superpower disagreements and a move away from multilateral solutions. He ...
Four Naga organisations urge Centre to resolve the Naga political impasseFour Naga organizations, including the Naga Hoho, have called on the Indian government to fulfil its commitments made in the 1997 Ceasefire...
Madeleine Albright, 1st female US secretary of state, diesAs secretary of state, Albright was the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. She was not in the line of succession ...
UN mum over report Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to visit North Korea this weekThe secretive North, officially named the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is under heavy U.N., EU and U.S. sanctions for its ...
Kailash Satyarthi gets Harvard Humanitarian of the Year AwardSatyarthi has been conferred with award for this year, in recognition of his continuing contribution to the cause of child rights.
- UNSC reform still a long way to go: Tharoor
There may be high expectations in the Indian camp about the imminent reform of the Security Council, but parliamentarian and former UN offi...
- IMF reform package near completion: Strauss-Kahn
The reform will make IMF more representative and better able to tackle the economic problems facing the globalised economy.
- IMF calls for more study on economic imbalances
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) called Saturday for further study on global imbalances and exchange rate policies.
- Eye on Greece, finance leaders to attack debt
Financial leaders, with a nervous eye on Greece, pledged on Saturday to address the risks posed to the global recovery from high government...
- World Bank: Economic crisis turning into calamity
The global financial crisis could become "a human and development calamity" for many poor countries, the World Bank said, urging donor nati...
- IMF head says it will sell bonds to raise funds
The IMF will sell bonds as a way to raise funds to lend to struggling nations, the head of the organization said Saturday, in a victory for...
- ‘I have showed I can work the system’
Shashi Tharoor, India’s man for the UN top job, has had a flurry of meetings over the past two days as he and the Indian establishment work...
- Pak may challenge Tharoor in UN
A day after India announced the nomination of UN official Shashi Tharoor as its UN secretary general candidate, Pakistan reacted and indica...