13 dead in Afghanistan airborne attack KABUL: The United Nations has reported that 13 civilians, including children, were killed in the air raids carried out by US troops against the Taliban last week in the north of Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, the civil war has lasted for 17 years between the government and the…
World Food day 2018; celebrates Today World Food Day is celebrated every year around the world on 16 October in honor of the date of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1945. World Food Day is celebrated annually on October 16th by 150 countries across the world in support of…
PM Modi received ‘Champions of the earth Award’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday received the United Nation’s highest environmental honour ‘Champions of The Earth Award’ at a special ceremony in New Delhi. PM Modi was selected in the leadership category for his pioneering work in…
Kofi Annan – former UN chief passed away Former United Nations chief and Nobel Peace Prize laureate General Kofi Annan passed away at the age of 80, following a short illness. Annan, a Ghanaian national, died in hospital in Bern, Switzerland, in the early hours of Saturday Announcing the news of the leader’s…
Iraqi Prime Minister Haide al-Abadi said the Iraqi forces will need three months to eliminate the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group, as battles continued to free the IS stronghold in the city of Mosul and the rest of Iraq. “The Americans were very pessimistic,” al-Abadi stated on Tuesday.…
Today the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) hosted its High-Level pledging conference for 2017. Twenty-nine donors pledged almost US$273 million to the Fund to support urgent aid whenever and wherever crises hit. India has said it will contribute USD 500,000 to the United Nations’s emergency…