Without naming Pakistan, he said there are some who are trying to project an 'alarmist approach' to the situation in Kashmir, which is far from the ground realities.
Closed meetings are not open to the public and no verbatim record of statements is kept.
The annual cultural extravaganza will run through several streets of Madison Avenue in the heart of Manhattan, featuring tableaux by various Indian-American organisations, marching bands, police contingents and cultural performances by young Indian-American children.
India lifted 271 million people out of poverty between 2006 and 2016, recording the fastest reductions in the multi-dimensional poverty index values during the period with strong improvements in areas such as "assets, cooking fuel, sanitation and nutrition," a report by the United Nations said.
Panagariya urged the government to undertake labour law reforms and make land acquisition more flexible to attract the multinationals.
The General Assembly hall, where world leaders come together every year for the high-level UN session, was packed with UN diplomats, officials, yoga gurus and practitioners, children and people from various backgrounds as India's Permanent Mission to the UN organised the commemoration of the 5th International Day of Yoga Thursday.
President and CEO of computer networking firm Arista Networks Jayshree Ullal, cofounder of IT consulting and outsourcing firm Syntel Neerja Sethi, and CTO and cofounder of streaming data technology company Confluent Neha Narkhede are in the Forbes list of 'America's Richest Self-Made Women 2019'.
The article is in stark contrast to the TIME cover story done on Modi earlier this month titled 'India's Divider in Chief', written by Aatish Taseer, son of Indian journalist Tavleen Singh and late Pakistani politician and businessman Salmaan Taseer.
IS-Khorasan was sanctioned for its links with Al Qaeda and involvement in several deadly attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan that killed over 150 people.
The article also said that the opposition Congress party has little to offer other than the dynastic principle.
The powerful cyclone, strongest to hit India in 20 years, made landfall at around 8 am in India's eastern state of Odisha, killing at least 12 people.
Cook further said that Apple would like to place retail stores in India and is working with the government to seek approval to do that.
A UNSC designation will subject Azhar to an assets freeze, travel ban and an arms embargo.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says China 'protects' violent Islamic terror groups from UN sanctions.
As it has done in the past, Beijing put a technical hold on the proposal just as the deadline was about to end.
The sanctions list subjected him to a travel ban, assets freeze and an arms embargo.
The proposal is the fourth such bid at the UN in the last 10 years to list Azhar as a global terrorist.
The 15-nation body includes China as a permanent veto-wielding member.
According to a new report from the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, an estimated 2,275 individuals drowned or went missing in the Mediterranean in 2018.
In a set of recent tweets, Khan said that "Kashmiris must be allowed to decide their future".