Osama bin Laden has reiterated a call for aid to flood victims in Pakistan, in the second such audio message posted online in as many days, a US monitoring group said on Saturday.

At least 10 people, including three foreigners, were injured on Friday when a UN helicopter engaged in flood relief operations crashed into a lake in Pakistan's southern Sindh province, officials said

India has strongly backed UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon's push for efforts to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction with the Conference on Disarmament (CD) giving it political impetus.

External affairs minister S.M.

With an aim of augmenting logistical support for paramilitary forces in the anti-Naxal operations, Indian Air Force will start withdrawing its 20 helicopters from the UN peace-keeping missions from No

Ahead of the high-level UN summit to assess progress in the Millennium Development Goals later this month, a recent report says children from the poorest communities in India are three times more like

New York, Sept. 7: Iran is hampering investigation into its controversial nuclear programme by refusing to allow International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors into the country, a media report has said

Washington, Aug. 17: Israel has “eight days” to launch a military strike against Iran’s Bushehr nuclear facility and stop Tehran from acquiring a functioning atomic plant, a former US envoy to the UN

Efforts are underway to make Hindi an official language of the United Nations, the external affairs minister, Mr S.M. Krishna, told Parliament on Thursday.

Denying that any financial constraints wer

The UN and the US have designated Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami (HuJI) as a terrorist organisation and imposed sanctions on the group and its commander Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri.

The US department of treas