Eliasson underlined that the world has "repeatedly seen competition over this scarce resource be a major driver of discontent, turning into...

"As a country which has participated in 48 UN peacekeeping operations, we have contributed our share to the maintenance of international pe...

India ranked 12th out of these 20 countries, hosting 5.2 million migrants in 2015, a drop from 7.5 million in 1990.

The General Assembly adopted the new framework, "Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development", composed of 17 goals...

Pakistan has once again knocked the doors of the UN Security Council, urging it to take note of "provocative" actions along the LoC.

The 15-nation Council adopted a resolution condemning all violations and abuses committed against journalists and strongly deploring impuni...

UNICEF said the call to end the practice of open defecation is being made with growing insistence as the links with childhood stunting beco...

India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Asoke Mukerji told the UN General Assembly that the Indian government has put in plac...

He said that the principles enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, the year of Gandhi's death, owe much t...

China, India, the Philippines, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria and the US had the highest numbers of people displaced by rapid onset disaster...

The latest number of Ebola virus disease cases in affected countries Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, stands at 3,069, with over...

Senior Adviser Robert Serry is in good shape physically after being threatened yesterday by armed men who ordered him to leave the region.

The powerful UN Security Council held an emergency meeting here yesterday for the third time in four days as the crisis in Ukraine escalate...

The letter was sent by India's Ambassador to the UN Asoke Mukerji to Ban around December 18-19 along with other documents.

At the United Nations here, ministers, ambassadors, mayors and other stakeholders from across the world met on Tuesday to draw a strategy o...

DMK treasurer M K Stalin has submitted to the United Nations the party-backed TESO resolutions seeking redressal to problems faced by Sri L...