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India elected to several UN bodies, wins significant re-election to INCB

India has been elected to several key bodies at the UN, including a significant victory by its nominee Jagjit Pavadia who was re-elected for a third term to the International Narcotics Control Board after garnering the highest number of votes. Pavadia was re-elected to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) by secret ballot for the third term for five years from March 2025-2030, getting the highest number of votes in the highly competitive election. India was also elected by acclamation to the Commission on the Status of Women for the term 2025-2029; Executive Board of the United Nations Children's Fund for the term 2025-2027; Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Office for Project Services for 2025-2027. It was also elected to the Executive Board of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women for the 2025-2027 term and the Executive Board of the World Food .

“Don’t need UN to tell our elections should be free & fair”Jaishankar rebuts UN

Taliban govt annuls divorces, forces women to return to abusive husbands

The Taliban government adheres to an austere interpretation of Islam and has imposed severe restrictions on women's lives that the United Nations (UN) called "gender-based apartheid"

India's G20 Presidency a real opportunity to share lessons from South

India's role as the G20 chair is a real opportunity for it to share lessons from the global South with the rest of the world, a top UN Women official has said, as she voiced appreciation for New Delhi placing issues of women-led development and gender equality as the centrepiece of its presidency of the grouping. India assumed the Presidency of the G20 for one year from December 1, 2022, to 30 November 2023. I see the G20 Presidency of India as a real opportunity for India to share lessons from the global South with the rest of the world, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women Anita Bhatia told PTI in an exclusive interview here Monday. She said, for us as UN Women, what is really interesting...is how India is putting the issue of women-led development and a focus on gender equality as a centrepiece of its G20 Presidency. One of the things that (India's G20) Presidency can do is to share development stories and pragmatic ...

Why a more populous world will need different rules of governance

The western obsession with individual freedoms, which has been globalised after 1945, may need to give way to a more realistic approach wherein groups become the units of governance

Solution to multilateralism is reformed multilateralism, says Jaishankar

The solution to globalisation is decentralisation and the solution to multilateralism is reformed multilateralism, not a 1945-version of multilateralism, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said. Speaking at an event titled The G20 Imperative: Green Growth and Development for All' organised by the Observer Research Foundation here on Friday, Jaishankar said the two words under attack currently are globalisation and multilateralism. I don't think there's anything wrong with either of them. What is challengeable is how they have been implemented. Has multilateralism failed us? I will say this form of multilateralism in the hands of these people perhaps has not delivered," he said. Jaishankar was in conversation with UK's Minister of State for Development, Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Vicky Ford and World Economic Forum President Borge Brende in a discussion moderated by President of Observer Research Foundation Samir Saran. Jaishankar added that the ...

LIVE news updates: India logs 5,747 fresh coronavirus cases, 29 fatalities

Live news updates: The active cases comprise 0.11% of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate increased to 98.71%

Live news: Putin's war hurls Russian economy back four years in one quarter

Live news updates: The jolt of international sanctions over the war disrupted trade and threw industries like car manufacturing into paralysis while consumer spending seized up

Live: Zelenskyy urges world to react on Russian-controlled nuclear plant

Live news updates: The UN Chief has called for an immediate end to all military activity around Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

Live news: Russia renews assault on Ukrainian defenders of Mariupol

Live news updates: Ukrainian President says Russia's invasion of his country was just the beginning.

Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani removed from UN Heads of State List

The names of former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and former Foreign Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar have been removed from the UN Heads of State List.

UN Security Council agrees to deploy cease-fire monitors in Libya

International monitors will watch over a nearly six-month-old cease-fire agreement in Libya, the U.N. Security Council decided in a vote announced Friday

Use of IEDs is increasing globally, warns UN chief Antonio Guterres

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged nations to work together to curb the threat from those weapons as well as land mines and other remnants of war

Guterres appoints French diplomat Arnault as personal envoy on Afghanistan

UN chief Antonio Guterres has appointed veteran French diplomat Jean Arnault as his personal envoy on Afghanistan and regional issues, authorising him to liaise with regional countries on his behalf

UN climate panel okays report detailing impact of global warming on oceans

At issue is what might have been a routine reference to the October 2018 IPCC report on the feasibility of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius

India slams Security Council for progressively undermining UNGA's authority

The General Assembly must be in the "vanguard of global agenda-setting" and lead the multilateral process for finding solutions to the challenges faced by the world, says Naidu

UN's report forecasts global economic growth around 3% in 2019

Waning support for multilateralism, escalating trade disputes, increasing debt and rising climate risks are clouding prospects

UN needs $4.4 bn for famine relief in four countries: Guterres

UN aid agencies need funding to address famine in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen

92,000 people displaced in Myanmar since October: UN agency

This includes some 69,000 people who have fled across the border into Bangladesh

UN gets release of 876 children detained by Nigeria military

West Africa director Manuel Fontaine says the agency fears more children are at least temporarily detained