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Head of the independent review team on UNRWA may request Gaza visit
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 23rd Feb. Head of an independent review team on UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, Catherine Colonna on Thursday briefed reporters in New York said that researchers have been…
DSG calls global community to collaborate on SDGs
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 22nd Feb. UN deputy chief Amina Mohammad on Wednesday said that today’s multilateral arrangements global and regional organizations and major development banks are “not up to the job” of helping…
Top rights expert says Junta ‘a greater threat’ to civilians, mandatory draft shows ‘desperation’
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 22nd Feb. UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Tom Andrews on Wednesday said that the Myanmar’s military government is becoming a greater threat to civilians after the imposition of a mandatory draft…
UN official urged UK to end violence against women, girls ‘a national threat’
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 22nd Feb. UN Special Rapporteur and the human rights expert Reem Alsalem on Wednesday said that the Great Britain must take action to end all forms of violence against women and girls, have…
OCHA reports Russian attacks in Donetsk
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 22nd Feb. UN humanitarians on Wednesday reported that attacks on the frontline in the Donetsk region had disrupted clean water supplies in Kramatorsk City, as the war in Ukraine marked 2 years.…
UN experts warns US companies dump ‘forever chemicals’ with impunity
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 22nd Feb. UNEP on Wednesday reported that the US companies such as the DuPont and Chemours chemical are dumping toxic so-called “forever chemicals” into the local environment, completely…
Top envoy calls to curb illicit weapons in Central African Republic
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 22nd Feb. Head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic MINUSCA Valentine Rugwabiza on Wednesday urged greater support for the efforts to build a professional national army,…
Novelis Hindalco subsidiary files draft papers for proposed US IPO
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
NEW YORK, 22nd Feb. Atlanta-based Novelis Inc. a fully-owned subsidiary of Hindalco Industries on Wednesday has announced that it has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form F-1 with the…
Imran Khan terms Pak polls as ‘mother of all rigging’
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
WASHINGTON DC, 22nd Feb. Former Prime Minister and the chief of the opposition party PTI Imran Khan has termed the February 8 general elections in Pakistan as “mother of all rigging”, a media report said.
His…
China cuts mortgage rate to boost housing market
Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
WASHINGTON DC, 22nd Feb. According to media reports on Wednesday the China central bank has cut its key mortgage reference rate by a record amount, to boost efforts to stem a prolonged property crisis.
The 25…