US Coast Guard ship in Tasman Sea did not interact with Chinese navy, commander saysA U.S. Coast Guard cutter operating in the Tasman Sea maintained awareness of nearby Chinese naval activities without engaging them. Chines...
25 Feb, 2025, 09.42 AM IST
US deports highest numbers of illegal immigrants since 2014, aided by more flightsUS Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported over 270,000 individuals. This is the highest number in ten years. Deportations inclu...
20 Dec, 2024, 08.49 AM IST
Ticket to Nicaragua: More and more Indian migrants are seeking the shortcut to USManuel Orozco, a migration expert at the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue, told AFP that Ortega's government was facilitating "the ...
30 Dec, 2023, 11.46 AM IST
41 migrants missing after new Mediterranean shipwreckForty-one migrants including three children are feared dead after being shipwrecked last week in the Mediterranean, UN agencies said, citin...
10 Aug, 2023, 12.36 PM IST
Earthquake measuring 7.6 shakes up Papua New Guinea. All we know so farThe "Ring of Fire" also runs through Papua New Guinea; therefore, this area is prone to earthquakes due to fault lines. The "ring" is the l...
11 Sep, 2022, 05.43 PM IST
Abandoned animals join Ukraine's war exodusThe UN estimates more than 3.7 million Ukrainians have fled the country since the war began a month ago. More than two million of those cro...
27 Mar, 2022, 12.40 PM IST
Ukrainians face long journeys to borders as fighting escalatesAs a massive Russian convoy rumbles toward the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, the United Nations said more than 660,000 refugees had fled to neigh...
02 Mar, 2022, 12.07 PM IST
How India put together first standalone UNSC session on maritime securityIn the lexicon of current global politics, “maritime security” is code for Chinese actions in the South China Sea. Being extraordinarily se...
12 Aug, 2021, 10.28 AM IST
Ebola vaccines stockpiled against future outbreaksIn a statement, WHO, Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said they wer...
12 Jan, 2021, 04.05 PM IST
Second wave of coronavirus in Asia prompts fresh lockdownsMainland China is battling the most aggressive return of COVID-19 in months, confirming 57 new locally transmitted cases on Sunday, the hig...
27 Jul, 2020, 11.32 PM IST
MEA leads high-charged diplomacy in past year: Covid diplomacy to big power tiesWhile on one hand mammoth coordinating efforts led by Indian High Commissions and Embassies across the world under Vande Bharat Mission hav...
30 May, 2020, 10.35 PM IST
Pakistan fails in first attempt to raise Kashmir at UNSCSources indicated that India has not lowered its guard and continues to engage each and every member of the UNSC on Kashmir.
10 Aug, 2019, 09.04 AM IST
India in touch with UNSC members to checkmate PakistanPermanent mission in UN also apprising UNSC of Pakistan's false propaganda.
09 Aug, 2019, 02.44 PM IST
More than one million people affected by Ebola outbreak: WHOThe infected people are in the "hot zone of disease transmission" on the borders of the three countries most impacted by the disease.
14 Aug, 2014, 10.24 AM IST
World Bank pledges 200 million to contain spread of EbolaWorld Bank pledged $200 mn to help contain the deadly Ebola virus reaping panic across west Africa, as Nigerian authorities say a doctor in...
05 Aug, 2014, 10.23 AM IST
- UNESCO adds 27 places to World Heritage List
Baha'i holy places in Israel, the Monarch butterfly biosphere reserve of Mexico, and the historic center of Camaguey, a Spanish colonial to...
30 Jul, 2008, 03.30 AM IST
- India looking to ARF to condemn Mumbai terror
New Delhi is now looking forward to a united statement condemning the Mumbai blasts from the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), a grouping of dial...
27 Jul, 2006, 02.52 AM IST