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......
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......
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......
The steady drip of rain continued to bathe us that October afternoon as we lingered on to catch a glimpse of the candidate. Our excitement brimmed over as we espied him emerging in a roofless jeep......
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......
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......