Asoke Kumar Mukerji is India's permanent representative at UN

Under way for over two years, the Syrian civil war has already claimed close to 80,000 lives. In and of itself, this should have been sufficient to stir the conscience of the international community to redouble efforts to persuade the Assad regime ...

Obama named Rice to one of the most powerful positions in the American bureaucracy on Wednesday while naming another woman, Samantha Power, as his ambassador to the United Nations, a job held by Rice until now. Rice as NSA will referee the ...

Last week saw the 22nd death anniversary of former Indian Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi being commemorated. He was killed on May 21st 1991. The date of Rajiv Gandhi's death has poignant significance for me personally. May 21st is the date of my birth.

In-depth Report: SYRIA: NATO'S NEXT WAR? A week from now it will be one year since the world first heard about the horrors of a place in Syria called Houla. On the afternoon and evening of Friday, May 25, 2012, a reported 108 civilians were ...

George Fernandes is a name that not only sounds Christian, but is common among the sizeable Latin American population found in the United States of America. This community has faced rampant discrimination in the US. Yet, when George Fernandes who ...

While Bangladesh's new ODI cap was no surprise, with seamer Robiul Islam picked on the back of his 15 wickets in the two-Test series, Zimbabwe's debutant was the Pakistani-born batsman Sikander Raza Butt. The Sialkot-born Butt is a right-handed ...

Uttar Pradesh Urban Development Minister Azam Khan, who was briefly detained on Wednesday at a US airport, on Sunday accused External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid of hatching a "conspiracy" to defame him outside India. He even claimed that a ...

Insisting that his situation should not be compared to that of Kalam, Shah Rukh, Indian Ambassador to the UN Hardeep Singh Puri or the then Indian envoy to the US Meera Shankar, Khan alleged, "It was a conspiracy because I am a powerful non-Congress Muslim ...

The other day it was reported that the already agitating students of Chennai are going to launch protest rallies when the internationally popular Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty-20 cricket matches take place at the city's 'hallowed' Chepauk ...