India was among the 189 nations that voted overwhelmingly in favour of lifting the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed five decades ago by the US against Cuba.A total of 189 UN member s...

Foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale on Thursday said Pakistan was “welcome” to raise Kashmir at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) but Prime Minister Narendra Modi would focus on what India ha...

Nobel Peace Prize winner and Pakistani education rights activist Malala Yousafzai has urged the UN to work towards peace in Kashmir and help children in the Valley return to school.Malala, 22, tweeted...

Five special rapporteurs of the United Nations have dubbed the continued incarceration of veteran Kashmir lawyer Mian Qayoom a reprisal for his opinions and claimed that he is being denied a free tria...

Tightened curbs and tens of thousands of security force personnel on Friday foiled a protest march to the United Nations office in Srinagar that had been called by unknown people and apparently advert...

Five UN human rights experts on Thursday urged India to end the clampdown in Kashmir, describing the restrictions on freedom of expression, access to information and peaceful protests as a form of “...

Local 2017: President Pranab Mukherjee comes to inaugurate the unified academic campus of Bose Institute on June 29. The research institute, now at Sector V’s EN Block, was first started by scientis...

Thirty per cent of India’s lowest income class, already undernourished, could be hit the hardest by the coronavirus pandemic, going by the analysis of an official report and a warning from the Unite...

The UN has called on all nations to stop the use of capital punishment or put a moratorium on it, a day after four men convicted of gang-raping and murdering a 23-year-old woman were hanged in India.S...

India last week voted with Israel in the United Nations Economic and Social Council (Ecosoc) to prevent a Palestinian “human rights” organisation called Shahed, which Jerusalem insists is linked t...