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Sanda Ojiambo, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact, and Paul Simpson, Chief Executive Officer of CDP (not pictured), update media on new findings from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), an organisation that helps businesses set aggressive carbon reduction targets on June
The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, said on Wednesday that the onset of winter, along with the disastrous consequences of COVID-19, posed a direct threat to the health and livelihoods of Venezuelans stranded in southern Latin America
Kolkata, the capital of the state of West Bengal, was founded as a commerce hub by an agent of the East India Company Job Charnok. Local landlords sold him Sutanati, Gobindapur, and Kalikata, three villages on the east bank of the Ganges. Dalhousie Square, originally the headquarters of the British Government’s administration, is still Bengal’s power hub, with Laldighi (a historic pond) in its midst. It has been renamed BBD Bag (after the freedom fighters Binay, Badol, and Dinesh who killed a high-profile police officer inside the Writers Building), and it is flanked by some land mark buildings
Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya, An Exiled Belarusian Presidential Candidate, Says European Leaders Would Do More For Her Nation
The appeals judgement in the case against Ratko Mladic, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb armed forces, was delivered by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals today
Honor killings occur often in India, as they do in Pakistan. In India, honour killings have become a social problem.The state of Haryana has a poor track record of violating women’s human rights
the United Nations General Assembly meeting where the President of the United Nations was elected, Secretary-General António Guterres (right) congratulates Abdulla Shahid (not pictured), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Maldives, President-elect of the United Nations General Assembly’s seventy-sixth session
The 13 Kannara Bridge (Pathimoonu Kannara Bridge) is a 112-year-old British-era bridge with 13 arches. It is a significant landmark on the Kollam-Sengottai railway route
Mini Switzerland of India is located in the Chambal district, Khajjiar, in Himachal Pradesh. The Kalatop Khajjiar Sanctuary includes the Khajjiar hill station in Himachal Pradesh. As a result, practically every aspect of the location is a match. Forests, lakes, and grasslands make up its ecology
The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator is a global cooperation aimed at speeding up the development, manufacture, and distribution of COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines