All stories by Yoshita Singh
Pak-China bid to internationalise J-K snubbed at UN
Rediff.com17 Aug 2019Majority of the 15 members said there should not be any statement or outcome issued after the consultations and their will prevailed, leaving China to come out and make a statement in its national capacity followed by Pakistan.
WATCH: India's UN envoy extends 'hand of friendship' to Pak
Rediff.com17 Aug 2019'Stop terror, start talks. Let us wait for a response on that from the Pakistani side'
Issues related to Art 370 internal: India after UNSC meet
Rediff.com17 Aug 2019Without 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.
UNSC to hold 'closed-door' talks on J-K today on China's prod
Rediff.com16 Aug 2019Closed meetings are not open to the public and no verbatim record of statements is kept.
Suniel Shetty to be grand marshall at NYC's I-Day parade
Rediff.com2 Aug 2019The 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.
271 mn Indians came out of poverty between 2006 and 2016
Rediff.com12 Jul 2019India 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.
US-China trade war is a great chance for India to woo MNCs: Panagariya
Rediff.com27 Jun 2019Panagariya urged the government to undertake labour law reforms and make land acquisition more flexible to attract the multinationals.
In a first, yoga practice goes inside UN General Assembly
Rediff.com21 Jun 2019The 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.
3 Indian Americans on Forbes list of richest women
Rediff.com7 Jun 2019President 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'.
Now, TIME says Modi united India like no PM in decades
Rediff.com29 May 2019The 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.
UNSC sanctions Islamic State's South Asia Branch
Rediff.com15 May 2019IS-Khorasan was sanctioned for its links with Al Qaeda and involvement in several deadly attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan that killed over 150 people.
'India's divider in chief': PM on Time magazine cover
Rediff.com10 May 2019The article also said that the opposition Congress party has little to offer other than the dynastic principle.
UN praises IMD for 'Pinpoint accuracy' on Cyclone Fani
Rediff.com4 May 2019The 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.
India is a challenging market in the short-term: Apple's Tim Cook
Rediff.com1 May 2019Cook further said that Apple would like to place retail stores in India and is working with the government to seek approval to do that.
Big win for India, UN designates Masood Azhar as global terrorist
Rediff.com1 May 2019A UNSC designation will subject Azhar to an assets freeze, travel ban and an arms embargo.
US moves draft resolution directly in UNSC to blacklist Masood Azhar
Rediff.com28 Mar 2019US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says China 'protects' violent Islamic terror groups from UN sanctions.
India 'disappointed' after China blocks bid to ban JeM chief for 4th time
Rediff.com14 Mar 2019As it has done in the past, Beijing put a technical hold on the proposal just as the deadline was about to end.
UN blacklists Osama bin Laden's son, seen as successor of Al Qaeda
Rediff.com2 Mar 2019The sanctions list subjected him to a travel ban, assets freeze and an arms embargo.
US, UK, France bring fresh proposal at UN to ban Masood Azhar
Rediff.com28 Feb 2019The proposal is the fourth such bid at the UN in the last 10 years to list Azhar as a global terrorist.
UNSC condemns Pulwama attack, names Jaish
Rediff.com22 Feb 2019The 15-nation body includes China as a permanent veto-wielding member.