India is a great power that determines its national interests and chooses its partners, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, describing as “completely unjustified” the......
French President Emmanuel Macron told world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly session that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was right when he told Russian President Vladimir Putin that......
The B.1.617.1 and B.1.617.2 variants of the COVID-19, first identified in India, have been named as 'Kappa' and 'Delta' respectively, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Monday as it......
A low-pressure area, set to form over east central Bay of Bengal on May 22, is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm and strike the Odisha-West Bengal coast on May 26, the Met department......
In a grim assessment of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on children, the United Nations has said the looming global recession resulting from the outbreak could cause hundreds of thousands of......
Terming the Paris climate change deal as ‘a health insurance policy for the planet’, UN chief Ban Ki-moon called on all nations to turn their commitments on reducing emissions......
About 30 crore people still live in extreme poverty in India even as the Millennium Development Goal (MGD) programme will expire in December, a United Nations report has said. "Still nearly......
IMAGE: Spain's Dani Carvajal is fouled by England's Luke Shaw leading to a yellow card in Saturday's Nations League match at Wembley stadium, London. Photograph: Carl Recine/Reuters Spain began a......