Adding yet another feather to its cap, India has been re-elected to a key United Nations committee on the elimination of racial discrimination, more than a week after securing membership of the......
India's winning streak in elections to UN bodies demonstrates it is time for the country to become a permanent member of the Security Council and those who doubt this can no longer behave like......
India has been elected to the newly established Independent Audit Advisory Committee, a five-member body which is expected to contribute to improving the accountability of the UN Secretariat to the......
United Nations owes $70 million to India on account of its expenditure on troop deployment for peacekeeping operations in various countries, Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday. In a reply,......
T P Sreenivasan remembers Ambassador SK Singh, a dominant figure in the Indian Foreign Service and the governor of Rajasthan and Arunachal Pradesh, who passed away on December 1. Ambassador SK......
India on Friday won a crucial election to the UN Board of Auditors with its nominee Shashi Kant Sharma, the Comptroller and Auditor General, garnering the largest number of votes. Sharma won 124......
Viewed purely as a book-keeping exercise, Budget making for 2007-08 does not present any complications. Finance Minister P Chidambaram, in fact, had never had it so good.Collections of the......