MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi appointed India's ambassador to UN in GenevaArindam Bagchi, the spokesperson for India's Ministry of External Affairs, has been appointed as India's permanent representative to the Un...
UN draft urges Afghan rulers to reverse bans on women, girlsThe resolution, drafted by the United Arab Emirates and Japan, is scheduled to be voted on by the 15-member council on Thursday afternoon. ...
India will make efforts to include concerns of Global South in G20 framework: Om BirlaReferring to India's G20 presidency, Birla emphasised on priorities of India's G20 stint and assured that India will make efforts to includ...
Our shoes as head of counterterror panel not easy to fill, says Ruchira Kamboj"The Delhi Declaration on counterterrorism charted by India is a pathfinder. Our shoes, as the head of the counterterror committee in UNSC,...
Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla’s NY visit to shape agenda for India’s UNSC PresidencyShringla has a series of high-profile meetings in New York that includes engagements with the UN secretary general and the French foreign m...
UN reforms and rule of law to be India’s focus: TirumurtiIndia will sit in the 15-nation United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the 2021-22 term as a non-permanent member - the eighth time tha...
View: UN Security Council membership is a card India must play to its advantageWhat’s needed in India’s eighth stint at UNSC is a clear approach, signalling that its decisions will be guided by its core strategic and p...
PM Narendra Modi appoints seasoned envoys to man India’s Kabul, Dhaka missionsIndo-Bangladesh ties have acquired a new dimension in the last few years and the ties are spread across power, connectivity, trade and defe...
Pakistan's first-ever woman foreign secretary takes chargeJanjua replaced Aizaz Chaudhry, a career diplomat who has taken up charge as Pakistan's new ambassador to the United States.
With 40,000 pending cases, new Central Information Commission has his job cut outFormer bureaucrat took over the reins of CIC as its seventh chief, a post which had been lying vacant for nearly nine months leading to pil...
Nawaz Sharif says will be 'very happy' to meet Manmohan Singh"I will be very happy to meet him (Singh) and we hope to pick up the threads from where we left in 1999," Sharif told reporters.
Flamboyant Shashi Tharoor makes a comeback in cabinet reshuffleThaoor is a multi-faceted personality who has excelled as diplomat and writer but his political stint has been marked by controversies.
- Cannes 2012 announces global Ogilvy & Mather Creative head as jury head for Film and Press categories
He moved to New York in 2009 as the Worldwide Chief Creative Officer and Chairman of the Worldwide Creative Council at Ogilvy & Mather.
- Indian Atul Khare to lead UN's Change Management Team
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has appointed Atul Khare of India as head of its Change Management Team (CMT) tasked with suggesting reforms.
- Now, Nigerian email fraudsters ‘rope in’ supercop Kiran Bedi
Identity of the country's most famous crime-buster has been stolen to perpetuate the Nigerian fraud. Supercop Kiran Bedi has been impersona...
- Russia backs India's entry into UNSC
Russia today backed India's aspiration for permanent membership of expanded UN Security Council.
- 'Sacked' Tharoor in Parliamentary panel on External Affairs
Tharoor lost his job but his links with the key min won't be snapped.