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Russia not to support new UN resolution on Syria

Moscow, April 14: Russia will vote against a new draft UN resolution on Syria, the Russian foreign ministry has said.The draft document, prepared by a number of countries and to be voted soon at the UN General Assembly, is "obviously biased ...

Narayanasamy rejects Gotabaya Rajapaksa's charge

Chennai, April 12: India never extended support to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as alleged by Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Union Minister V Narayanasamy told newspersons here on Friday. Rejecting Rajapaksa's charge that India had fomented...

4th nuclear test: Seoul not sure about Pyongyang's moves

Seoul, April 8: Hours after he seemed to confirm speculation in the media of North Korea preparing for a fourth nuclear test, a South Korean minister is now claiming to have misspoken. Earlier on Monday, South Korean MPs demanded to ...

TN Assembly resolution on referendum for 'Eelam' in Lanka

Chennai, March 27: In a move that will certainly embarrass the Union government, the Tamil Nadu Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution asking the Centre to stop treating Sri Lanka as a friendly country. The resolution was moved by Chief ...

1,800 children die daily from unsafe water: Unicef

United Nations, March 2: The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has said that almost 90 per cent of death of children from diarrhoeal diseases are directly linked to contaminated water, lack of sanitation, or inadequate hygiene. Globally, an estimated 2,000 ...

Un Countries Which Voted Against For Sri Lanka Tamil

Tamil Row: UN countries which voted against & for Sri Lanka

Geneva, March 21: After the apparent failure of the previous year's vote, the 47-member United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) once again met in Geneva on Thursday, March 21 and cast their votes on the US moved resolution on Sri Lanka ...

Terrorism poses existential threat to Afghanistan: India

United Nations, March 20: As international forces led by the United States prepare to draw down from Afghanistan, India has warned that Kabul still faces an existential threat from terrorist groups ranging from Al Qaeda to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)."It is particularly worrying...

DMK slams UPA's silence on atrocities in Sri Lanka

New Delhi, Mar 19: Barely an hour after the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) announced that it is withdrawing support to the ruling coalition, a senior MP of the party hit out at the UPA's silence on the continuing atrocities against ethnic ...

Lankan issue: Karunanidhi leaves UPA on tenterhooks

Chennai, Mar 17: The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) is likely to pull out of the central government if the party's request for India to back a strongly-worded resolution against Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) meeting ...

Chidambaram hopeful of India's support to US resolution

Chennai, March 17: Seeking to reach out to ally DMK which has threatened to pull out of UPA government on Sri Lankan Tamils issue, Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said India should support the US resolution against Lanka in UNHRC if ...

India may vote against Sri Lanka at UNHRC meet in Geneva

New Delhi, Mar 16: With parties based in Tamil Nadu ramping up the pressure on the UPA to support a United States-sponsored resolution, India may join other members of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in voting against Sri Lanka. ...

India May Vote Against Lanka At Unhrc Meet In Geneva

Violence not answer to any problem: UN Secy-Gen

UN, March 15: In the wake of a terror attack in Kashmir that claimed the lives of five Indian security personnel, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said violence is not the answer to any problem and the killings must stop. ...

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