United Nations: A young disabled artist from Delhi has asked UN General Assembly (UNGA) President Miroslav Lajcak to create a “revolution of inclusion” for the deaf by using the advances in digital technology. Lajcak assured Apoorv Om that he would do his best for promoting the inclusiveness of the disabled in[Read More…]
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UNGA approves creation of new office to combat terrorism
In order to coordinate counter-terrorism efforts, the UN General Assembly has approved the establishment of a new office. The move has been welcomed by India as it will align the world body with needs of the global community in the fight against terrorism. On Thursday, the General Assembly with 193[Read More…]
Pakistan describes Sushma Swaraj’s speech at UN as ‘litany of falsehoods’
Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Maleeha Lodhi has described Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s address to the UN as a ‘litany of falsehoods’ and ‘a travesty of facts and history’. She added that Jammu and Kashmir “never was and can never be an integral part of India. Maleeha[Read More…]
Sushma Swaraj at UNGA: Sheltering terrorists has become Pakistan’s calling card
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in her address at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York today hit out at Pakistan holding it accountable for nurturing terrorism on its land. Swaraj also took up the issue of human rights violations in Balochistan. Swaraj appealed to the General Assembly[Read More…]
Countries engaged in ‘proxy wars’ must end them, says Barack Obama
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday asked nations engaged in “proxy wars” to end them, warning that if communities are not allowed to co-exist, the “members of extremism will continue to burn” causing sufferings to countless human beings and export of extremism overseas. In his eighth and final address to[Read More…]