EAM Jaishankar took a veiled jibe at Rahul Gandhi while addressing the Indian community in Geneva. He said that "life is not khatakhat but a hard work".
Recalling those times, he said it was interesting because, on the one hand, he was part of the team which was working on dealing with hijacking while on the other hand, he was part of the family members who were pressing the government for the hijacking.
The external affairs minister said negotiations between the two sides to find a solution to the problem are underway. "Now those negotiations are going on. We made some progress. I would say roughly you can say about 75 per cent of the disengagement problems are sorted out," he said.
Hailing from Himachal Pradesh, Major Radhika Sen entered the Indian Army eight years ago after completing her undergraduate studies. While pursuing her Master's degree at IIT Bombay, she made the decision to join the armed forces.
India strongly condemned the terror attack by Hamas on October 7 last year. “At the same time, we must be clear that terrorism and hostage-taking are unacceptable,” Jaihankar said in his address via video link from New Delhi.
An extraordinarily high number of more than 160 countries — some critics of China, some allies — registered to take part in the discussions. That meant each country had a maximum of 45 seconds to speak, forcing some ambassadors into what at times felt like a speed-reading exercise.
The exiled Chairman of the United Kashmir People’s National Party said that the government has turned the region into slavery by outsourcing the minerals and added that political activists were sent to jail to suppress dissent voices.
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Pakistan floods: The impact of the heavy monsoon rains, which began in mid-July 2022, is drastic, affecting 33 million people in 116 districts across the country, with 66 districts being hardest hit.
WTO Director-General Nzogi Okonjo-Iweala, after a pair of sleepless nights in rugged negotiations, concluded the WTO’s first ministerial conference in 4-1/2 years by trumpeting a new sense of cooperation at a time when the world has faced crises like growing food insecurity, war in Ukraine and a once-in-a-century pandemic that has taken millions of lives.
Taking to Twitter, Union Minister Piyush Goyal wrote "fighting for the rights of our farmers within an hour of landing WTO Geneva at the G33 Ministerial Meeting."
An unspecified private buyer acquired The Rock, for which the pre-auction estimate was between 19 million and 30 million francs.
UNHCR has assisted some 7,00,000 displaced people across the country in 2021, the majority since mid-Aug. Every week, the agency is helping nearly 60,000 people, according to the statement.
Switzerland is one of the few remaining countries in Western Europe where gay and lesbian couples do not already have the right to wed.
The vast majority of Afghans were not able to leave the country through regular channels, Mantoo said, adding that some 200 UNHCR colleagues, both national and international, remained in Afghanistan.
According to the UN health agency, 70 WHO-supported medical facilities across Afghanistan treated nearly 14,000 conflict-related cases last month, which compares with 4,057 cases seen a year ago.
"We have a huge number of countries currently that have had to suspend the rollout of their second doses of vaccine," Xinhua news agency quoted Bruce Aylward, Senior Advisor to the WHO Director-General on Organizational Change, as saying on Friday.
"As for the general assessment, I believe there was no hostility at all," Putin said during his solo press briefing, adding that the meeting, the first of its kind since Biden took office in January, was "open" and with "no pressure of the parties on each other."
Biden and Putin plunged into the face-to-face talks at a lush lakeside Swiss mansion, a highly anticipated summit at a time when both leaders say relations between their countries are at an all-time low.
The head of WHO says that the UN agency has dispatched critical supplies to India, including thousands of portable oxygen machines that help patients breathe.
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