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All you need to know about World Food Programme -- Nobel Peace Prize winner

The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the United Nations World Food Programme for its efforts to combat hunger. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said the WFP had acted "as a driving force in......

Fragile security in South China Sea threat to good order at sea: Navy chief

The fragile security situation in the South China Sea, in addition to violations of established codes of conduct, poses a clear danger to "good order" and "discipline" at sea, Navy chief Admiral R......

20 aid trucks enter Gaza; not enough, says UN chief

United Nations leaders and agencies have welcomed the entry of a humanitarian aid convoy into Gaza via the Rafah border crossing with Egypt but noted that it is only a small beginning, still far......

5 lakh Afghans may leave due to political uncertainty in next 4 months: UNHCR

Due to political uncertainty following the collapse of the former government to the Taliban, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Saturday estimated that 500,000 Afghans......

Zelenskyy Gets Odesa Ready For Wheat Exports

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited a Black Sea port as crews prepared terminals to export grain trapped by Russia's five-month-old war. Russia and Ukraine agreed last week to allow......

Food export: World Bank for lifting ban

After the United Nations, the World Bank on Wednesday appealed to the nations to lift trade restrictions on food items even as India called for a global solution to overcome the predicament facing......

How The Heat Wave Will Affect Your Kitchen

Apart from the human body, human food will bear direct repercussions. From staples such as wheat, to coffee, dairy, and even the great Hilsa face the threat of reduced supply due to the extreme......

India faces crisis as boom fails rural poor

High economic growth rates have failed to improve food security in India leaving the country facing a crisis in its rural economy, the United Nations World Food Programme warned. India has grown at......

IIM-A student, BCG to improve PDS

After an Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) faculty member submitted a working paper on a single national ID formula, an IIM-A student is working on the integration and preparation......

Global food crisis: How serious is it?

The United Nations recently said it expects to register a 'dangerous and unprecedented' shortfall in budgetary allocations for its World Food Programme and as a result of which food aid to millions......

Murali fit for charity match

Sri Lanka off spinner Muttiah Muralitharan has passed himself fit to participate in the fundraising match for tsunami victims between an ICC World XI and an Asian XI in Melbourne on Monday.Also......

'To win the World Cup you need lots of luck'

'Given that they are playing at home and will have full crowd support, India, who are in peak form and whose morale is high, will be the favourites.' IMAGE: Muttiah Muralitharan celebrates taking......

FIFA gets first female secretary general

IMAGE: FIFA's new Secretary General, Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura. Photograph: FIFA.com FIFA named an African woman with no experience in football administration as its second most powerful official......

Please listen to our mann ki baat: Wrestlers to Modi

IMAGE: The wrestlers said they are surprised that Prime Minister Narendra Modi felicitates them and clicks pictures with them when they win medals but now he has turned a blind eye to their......

'I have been man-marked all the time'

He is only 22 years old but with a World Cup winners' medal and an Italian league title already to his name Brazilian Ricardo Kaka could be forgiven for thinking he had nothing more to prove.After......

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