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Ebola anxiety puts a chill on Indian travellers' hot Africa summer plansIndian travellers are rethinking African holidays due to Ebola fears. Travel bookings for East and Central Africa are declining. Many are p...
On This Day in History, June 13: Alexander dies, Miranda ruling, Korea summit, FIFA 2026 awarded to US-Canada-Mexico, Trump charged and more eventsOn This Day in History, June 13 witnessed the death of Alexander the Great, the signing of the enduring Anglo-Portuguese alliance, the land...
Ebola-related deaths touch 131, WHO seeks answersThe WHO is investigating potential vaccines and treatments for a potentially lengthy Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, wh...
Is the world finally going to tariff big tech?The WTO failed to renew its long-standing moratorium on tariffs for e-commerce, ending a near 30-year consensus that kept digital trade dut...
- 100 environment ministers to attend UN environment assembly in Kenya
Environment ministers from about 100 countries are gathering in Nairobi from Monday to issue a clarion call against air, land and water pol...
India cautions against using regional trade pacts to change WTO pactsThe meet was convened with a view to informally discuss various issues relating to WTO negotiations and set the stage for the Eleventh Mini...
India set to push for liberalisation of services trade at WTO Geneva talksThough services negotiations are part of the Doha Round under the General Agreement on Trade in Services, not much has happened in these ne...
WTO: India to push hard for long-stalled Doha agenda in 2016A senior official said that India would now take up the issue of Doha Round as also about public stockholding for food security purposes in...
Nirmala Sitharaman was outstanding — but WTO Nairobi meet can cause famines: M S SwaminathanSwaminathan discusses why he fears the WTO Nairobi meet could exacerbate global food insecurity, double standards over farming protection.
India got WTO commitment on special safeguard mechanism: Nirmala SitharamanGovernment today said "favourable" decisions on public stockholding for food security purposes and export competition are among the "achiev...
India to pursue food security issue with greater vigour at WTOThe minister said she was "utterly disappointed" because with one voice, the WTO could not reaffirm the Doha Developmental Agenda.
India didn’t come back empty handed form WTO, Nirmala Sitharaman tells Rajya SabhaNirmala Sitharaman said that India did not come back empty handed from the Nairobi ministerial of the World Trade Organization.
Negotiated hard for developing nations at WTO meet: Nirmala Sitharaman"India negotiated hard to ensure that the WTO continues to place the interest of developing countries and LDCs at the centre of its agenda,...
Export competition, lack of unanimity on Doha become spoilers for India at WTOIndia faced a major setback due to a lack of consensus among WTO countries on reaffirming the Doha Development Agenda.
Latest ministerial text shows WTO still divided on reaffirming DohaSharp divisions persisted among WTO member nations on reaffirming a pro-development global trade deal even as the hectic parleys continued ...
WTO talks enter 5th day; stalemate continuesThe WTO talks entered the fifth day today as a deadlock continued over reducing farm subsidies and on providing protection to poor farmers ...
India blocking WTO? Disagree, says Sitharaman as it battles to save DohaThe developed and developing countries have been engaged in intense negotiations for the last four days and the talks went on till wee hour...
India slams WTO's two drafts favouring developed countriesIndia has asserted that it has not given up on the public stockholding issue and wants it to be included in the preamble of the Nairobi dec...
Civil society protest against inclusion of new agenda in WTOThey called for a binding LDC (least developed countries) package and that the WTO Ministerial Declaration affirms the development mandate.
Permanent solution, SSM key for India at WTO meet: Nirmala SitharamanIndia will strongly pitch for a permanent solution for food security and a tool for developing nations to protect their poor farmers from s...