Vienna: Iran has doubled the number of uranium enrichment centrifuges it has in an underground bunker, a UN report said on Thursday, showing Tehran has continued to expand its nuclear programme despite Western pressure and the threat of an Israeli attack. As Israeli politicians increased their talk of air strikes on Iran's nuclear sites in recent months, the Islamic Republic was rapidly increasing the enrichment capacity of its Fordow site,...
09:22 AM, Aug 31, 2012
While activists claim 245 civilians were killed in the massacre, the UN has condemned the killings and is calling for an investigation. ...
08:57 AM, Aug 28, 2012
United Nations: A Chennai-based development organisation is among the five winners of this year's World Environment Day Challenge organised by the UN for inspiring environmental action. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) had challenged people across the world to pledge an environmental activity in connection with this year's World Environment Day, which was observed on June 5. "Today we celebrate five inspiring projects, submitted for the World Environment Day 2012 challenge,...
01:14 PM, Aug 03, 2012
Geneva: Kofi Annan said on Thursday he will quit his high-profile role as special envoy to Syria at the end of the month, delivering blistering criticism of world powers' failure to unite to stop the country's escalating violence. Annan told reporters that when he accepted the job, "which some called `Mission Impossible'" - he wanted to help the international community, led by the UN Security Council, find a peaceful solution...
10:56 PM, Aug 02, 2012
Mumbai: In what will be a rare honour for India, Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan has been invited to carry the Olympic torch on the final leg of its relay on Thursday. An overwhelmed Big B, tweeted about the impending event, OK !! HERE IT IS : Have been invited by London Olympic Organizing Committee to carry the torch in the relay tomorrow .. The face of Indian cinema and the...
12:14 PM, Jul 26, 2012
New Delhi: Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid on Wednesday took a dig at Team Anna saying they were raising issues which have been rejected by the Supreme Court and if they did not have any faith in it, they could approach the United Nations. "They should write to the United Nations. In India what can be more independent than the Supreme Court. They want independent probe into matters which have...
06:03 PM, Jul 25, 2012
New York: The security council met to vote on yet another resolution calling for sanctions against Syria but was defeated when Russia and China used there veto. India voted for that resolution and CNN-IBN's Amrita Triphati spoke to India's UN envoy Hardeep Puri. Here's the full transcript of the interview: Amrita Tripathi: We're joined now by Ambassador Hardeep Puri for more on what happened at the UN Security Council today....
04:39 PM, Jul 20, 2012
New Delhi: Author Manu Bhagavan's latest book 'The Peacemakers' is a story of India's quest for human rights in the years leading up to its independence from Great Britain, and more than a decade after. Gandhi, Nehru, his visionary sister Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and Hansa Mehta all strove to bridge the ideological differences between the East and the West, between capitalist and communist, to forge a common destiny for mankind...
02:48 PM, Jul 20, 2012
United Nations: Russia remained at loggerheads with the US and its European allies ahead of a scheduled vote on Wednesday afternoon on a new Syria resolution and there appeared to be little hope that the UN's most powerful body would unite behind a plan to end the 17-month civil war in the country. The key stumbling block is the Western demand for a resolution threatening non-military sanctions and tied to...
11:09 AM, Jul 18, 2012
New Delhi: The significance of the World Population Day, observed on July 11 every year, lies in the fact that the world holds 7,025,071,966 people as on July 9, 2012, a leap of over 2.5 times over the last fifty years, while earth's resources remain finite. A huge number of people, running into billions, suffer from abject poverty, starvation, malnutrition, diseases, illiteracy, lack of access to healthcare, wars and all...
09:53 AM, Jul 11, 2012
The World Population Day is observed on July 11 every year to raise the awareness of people about global population issues. In 1989, in its decision 89/46, the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme recommended that, in order to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues in the context of overall development plans and programmes and the need to find solutions for these issues, 11...
08:46 AM, Jul 10, 2012
United Nations: Pitching for an early reform of the UN Security Council, India has said several countries yearn to be recognised for their contribution to world affairs and resistance to expansion of the body was "unacceptable" to the large majority. India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Hardeep Singh Puri, said there was "palpable desire" among the membership for early reform of the Security Council to make it reflective of contemporary...
04:47 PM, Jul 03, 2012
New York: India's 1600-km long Western Ghats mountain chain, which has forests older than the Himalaya mountains, has been added to list of world heritage sites by the United Nations. The Western Ghats mountain chain is recognised as one of the world's eight "hottest hotspots" of biological diversity. The chain's forests, which are older than the Himalaya mountains influence the Indian monsoon weather pattern. The ghats, which start at the...
12:48 PM, Jul 02, 2012
Ankara/Amman: Turkey accused Syria on Sunday of shooting down a military reconnaissance jet in international airspace without warning and called a NATO meeting to discuss a response to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Amid growing acrimony between the once-friendly neighbours, Syria said its forces had shot dead "terrorists" infiltrating its territory from Turkey, which along with Western and Arab nations has backed the cause of Syrians fighting Assad. Turkey's Foreign Minister...
10:10 PM, Jun 24, 2012
New Delhi: Friday is the last day of the Earth Summit at Rio and 191 member nations of the United Nations are expected to endorse the final draft proposal that lays down new mechanisms for eventual funding and technology transfer for sustainable development. On Thursday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh criticised the industrialised world for not doing enough to fund efforts to cut carbon emissions. Manmohan also made a strong plea...
07:27 AM, Jun 22, 2012
New Delhi: 22-year-old Gurjeet Kaur came from Afghanistan when she was only 2-years-old. Her family was displaced from Jalalabad during the 1992 crisis. She believes her understanding of Hindi has helped her adjust into the Indian society well and now she has decided to help children with a similar background. Kaur said, "I connect with them so I help them." Despite lack of refugee specific legislation, India currently hosts more...
08:59 AM, Jun 20, 2012
Beirut: United Nations observers monitoring the turmoil in Syria suspended operations on Saturday in response to escalating violence which threatens to kill off a tattered peace plan brokered by international mediator Kofi Annan. Chief monitor General Robert Mood said the fighting posed a threat to his unarmed observers, one of whose patrols was fired upon four days ago, and prevented them from carrying out their mandate to oversee Annan's widely...
10:30 PM, Jun 16, 2012
New Delhi: The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) celebrates June 5 of every year as World Environment Day (WED). It was started in 1972 and is intended to raise global awareness about the need to take act to better and save the environment. The date of June 5 comes from the day that the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment began in Stockholm in 1972. It continued till June...
10:05 AM, Jun 05, 2012
Geneva: Syrian forces and pro-government militia accused of committing a massacre in Houla could face prosecution for crimes against humanity, the United Nations said on Friday and rights experts said Syrian authorities had directly ordered torture. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called again for the Security Council to refer Syria to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and for world powers to help implement Kofi...
09:48 AM, Jun 02, 2012
A bloody massacre in Houla in Syria left 92 people including 32 children dead. ...
11:28 AM, May 27, 2012
