UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced the appointment of India's Anita Bhatia as Assistant Secretary-General for resource management, sustainability and partnerships and Deputy Executive Director of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). Bhatia has had a distinguished career at the World Bank Group, serving in various senior leadership and...
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UNITED NATIONS - India's decade-long persistent "subterranean" efforts to get Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar declared an international terrorist have finally paid off, India's Permanent Representative Syed Akbaruddin said on Wednesday. "We have been persistent, diligent and in a subterranean manner, making all our efforts towards this goal," he said in a video statement. "Today that goal stands achieved."
UNITED NATIONS - The high-tech future of green jobs and the Gandhian virtue of the dignity of work meld their messages on a six-storey high mural commemorating the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and the centenary of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Sporting a Mahatma Gandhi patch on his shoulder, an astronaut floats in space on the mural painted on the side wall of the Indian Mission to the UN...
UN chief holding discussions 'with different parties' on India-Pak situation: Spokesperson2/27/2019
UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is having discussions "at different levels with different parties" about the tense India-Pakistan situation, his Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Wednesday. He refused to say who those parties were or the levels of contact but said the discussions were "to make sure that we have, we get a full picture" of the situation. "The message coming out of those discussions is on the need...
UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is following the situation in the subcontinent where the Indian Air Force struck a terrorist base inside Pakistan territory and is calling for "maximum restraint" by both countries, his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday. Guterres is on his way back to New York from Geneva and Dujarric told reporters, "I spoke to the Secretary-General not long ago,
UNITED NATIONS - Chandramouli Ramanathan has been appointed as the world body's controller by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, according to his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric. Dujarric told reporters: "Chandramouli brings to the position nearly 40 years of executive international experience in diverse organizational settings in finance and budget, management and information technology.
UNITED NATIONS - The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) World Economic Outlook Update released by chief economist Gita Gopinath on Monday said that India's economy is expected to grow by 7.5 per cent in the 2019-20 fiscal year, keeping an upward trajectory as the rest of the world slumps. India will continue to be the world's fastest growing major economy, the report said. The IMF's flagship report said that India's growth was estimated to be 7.3 per cent for the current fiscal year and forecast to rise to...
Former senior Indian diplomat Preeti Saran has been elected unopposed to an Asia Pacific seat on the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) of the UN. The UN's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) elected the recently-retired External Affairs Ministry Secretary (East) by acclamation on Wednesday to the 18-member committee of experts that monitors the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESR).
 UNITED NATIONS - The US embargo on Cuba is preventing Indian companies from sending medicines and development-related equipment to the Caribbean island nation, according to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. In his annual report to the General Assembly on the US embargo on Cuba, he said that the State Bank of India (SBI) and at least four other banks have refused to carry out transactions to enable the companies to export...
 UNITED NATIONS - India is set to be elected unopposed to the Human Rights Council on Friday as a candidate from the Asia-Pacific region. Only five countries are running for the five vacancies from the region, therefore, all are assured of election. The other four candidates are Bangladesh, Bahrain, Fiji and the Philippines. India's presence on the Council will be important because the previous UN High Commissioner for Human Rights...
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