India ratifies second commitment period of Kyoto Protocol

Italy ratified the 1984 United Nations Convention against Torture in 1988 but until Wednesday had never legislated to make it a criminal offence.

The airline is in violation of United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

United Nations human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein on Monday flayed any attempts by India to deport Rohingyas to Myanmar when the ethnic minority community is facing violence in their country. Speaking at the opening of a Human Rights Council session in Geneva, Zeid also referred to the killing of activist-journalist Gauri Lankesh, observing that she "tirelessly addressed the corrosive effect of sectarianism and hatred." India's Minister of State for Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju, on ...

The Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal(United) did a 'ghar wapasi' to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Saturday, nearly four years after it dumped the saffron party over Narendra Modi's selection as the prime ministerial ...

Ahead of the national executive committee meeting of the Janata Dal-United, the two factions of the party -- one led by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and the other by former party president Sharad Yadav -- have put up striking publicity material in Patna, leading up to a poster war in the city.Incidentally, both factions claim to be the 'real JD-U'.The poster put up by Sharad Yadav's faction showcases him with 'Jan Adalat ka faisla -- Mahagathbandhan jari hai (decision of the people's court ...

President Donald Trump has called for national unity based on common values in the United States, days after his controversial remarks over the racist violence in Virginia drew widespread criticism. IMAGE: United States President Donald Trump speaks to the National Convention of the American Legion in Reno, Nevada, US. Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuters Trump, at a rally in Phoenix on Tuesday, had defended his response to a deadly far right march in Virginia and condemned "dishonest" ...

India on Tuesday it was not a party to a treaty recently adopted by 122 countries at a United Nations conference to prohibit nuclear weapons. The Ministry of External Affairs issued a statement in New Delhi to clarify that India had not participated in the ...

The United States has submitted its formal communication to the United Nations indicating that it will withdraw from the 2015 Paris Climate agreement as soon as possible, the US State Department has said. The communication is in line with the decision announced by President Donald Trump recently, which was one of his key electoral promise. In a media statement, the State Department said the US submitted a communication to the UN, in its capacity as depositary for the 2015 Paris Agreement, ...

If you thought it was hard to imagine a former convenor of the BJP-led NDA to turn into a convenor of an Opposition alliance, all you needed to do was attend Sharad Yadav's “Saanjhi Virasat Bachao” convention. The event organised by the veteran ...