Tag: UN

India hands UN $1.16 million check for promotion of Hindi

News June 27, 2024 indica

India has contributed $1.16 million to the United Nations Thursday, June 27, for the promotion of Hindi. R. Ravindra, the chargé d’affaires of India’s Permanent Mission, handed over the check to Ian Phillips, the director of the News and Media Division of the UN’s Department of Global Communications (DGC).

The contribution is a special payment made in addition to the assessments for the UN’s regular and the peacekeeping budgets “to mainstream and consolidate news and multimedia content of DGC in the Hindi language”, the mission said.

Justice Markandey Katju: The emergence of India as a modern industrial giant will change world history

Justice Markandey Katju, Spotlight May 26, 2024May 27, 2024 indica

The world is largely ruled by a small group of powerful nations which dominate over others. After the end of the Second World War in 1945 the United Nations was set up, which reflected upon this situation. A Security Council was created making five powerful nations its permanent members with veto powers, relegating other countries to inferior status.

Indian official Kamal Kishore begins term as head of UN’s disaster risk reduction body

News May 23, 2024May 24, 2024 indica

iNDICA NEWS BUREAU- Indian official Kamal Kishore started his term as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s special representative for disaster risk reduction, news agency ANI reported. On May 20, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) welcomed the arrival of Kishore, who started his term as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) […]

Multinationals view India as alternative manufacturing base; investments ‘strong’: UN report

News, Biz April 9, 2024April 9, 2024 indica

India remains a “strong” recipient of foreign investments as multinationals recognise it as an alternative manufacturing base for supply chains, according to the United Nations. “India is benefiting by growing interest from multinationals, which see the country as an alternative manufacturing base in the context of developed economies’ supply chain diversification strategies,” according to the Financing for Sustainable Development 2024 Report.

UN chief weighs in on Indian elections, says he “hopes everyone’s rights are protected”

News March 28, 2024March 29, 2024 indica

United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres hopes that in India’s elections, “everyone’s rights are protected”, his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric has said. “What we very much hope that in India, as in any country that is having elections, that everyone’s rights are protected, including political and civil rights, and everyone is able to vote in an atmosphere that is free and fair”, he said on Thursday in response to a question from a Bangladeshi journalist at his daily briefing.

India’s Disaster Management Authority head appointed UN Asst Secretary-General

News March 27, 2024March 28, 2024 indica

Kamal Kishore, the head of India’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), has been appointed United Nations Assistant Secretary-General with the disaster risk reduction portfolio. “Kishore brings to the position nearly three decades of experience in disaster risk reduction, climate action and sustainable development at the global, regional, national and local levels, having worked in government, the United Nations and civil society organizations,” Stephane Dujarric, the spokesperson for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday while making the announcement.

At UNGA, India calls for “immediate de-escalation” in Gaza; reiterates two-state stand

News March 4, 2024March 5, 2024 indica

India has called for an “immediate de-escalation and eschewing of violence” in Gaza but stopped short of specifically mentioning a ceasefire, which is now a broad demand across the UN but opposed by Israel. “In order to arrive at a lasting solution, we urge for an immediate de-escalation and eschewing of violence,” India’s Permanent Representative Ruchira Kamboj told the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Monday.

At United Nations, India decries primacy of open markets in food grains

News February 13, 2024February 14, 2024 indica

India has decried the primacy of the concept of open markets in food grains amid warnings from United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres of a looming “hellscape of hunger” for the world’s poorest. “Open Markets must not become an argument to perpetuate inequity and promote discrimination” in the availability of food grain, India’s Permanent Representative Ruchira Kamboj told the Security Council on Tuesday.

Republican candidate Nikki Haley interacts with Indian Americans at California fundraiser

News February 8, 2024February 9, 2024 indica

At a high-profile fundraising event hosted by Silicon Valley based Venture Capitalists Tim Draper, a few Indian Americans were present to support Indian American Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Feb 6. Nimarata ‘Nikki’ Haley, former UN Ambassador and two-time South Carolina governor announced her 2024 US presidential race on Feb 14 last year. Tickets for the event topped out at $16,600 per person.

Ex-UN Secy Gen Ban Ki-moon gets Power of One Award from New York-based Diwali Foundation

News December 11, 2023December 12, 2023 indica

Accepting the Power of One Award from the New York-based Diwali Foundation USA, former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the global organisation is indispensable at a time when crises are tearing the world apart. After receiving the award on Monday, he said that crises like in the Middle East and Ukraine have kept nations and people apart and hindered global cooperation and progress. “But it is exactly at times such as these that the work of the UN is indispensable.”