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Saudi Arabia declines UN Security Council Seat

Showing disappointment over the inability of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to end the war in Syria...

📅 October 22, 2013

Outdoor Air Pollution a Leading Environmental Cause of Cancer Deaths: IARC

As per the data from the WHO’s specialized cancer agency – International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC),...

📅 October 21, 2013

Syria officially joins UN chemical weapons pact

UN confirmed that it has received documents from Syria on joining the Chemical Weapons Convention. The convention requires...

📅 October 17, 2013

GSK’s malaria vaccine trial successful

Britain’s pharmaceutical giant GaxoSmithKline (GSK) has successfully conducted the trial of the RTS,S vaccine developed by the company....

📅 October 11, 2013

India-Bangladesh power transmission link opened

In a historic event, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated  the India- Bangladesh Grid interconnection in Bangladesh through a...

📅 October 11, 2013

IGI and Birmingham airport ink ‘Sister Airport Agreement’

With an aim to further strengthen trade and tourism links between the two cities, the Indira Gandhi International Airport...

📅 October 10, 2013

India re-elected to ICAO Council

India has been re-elected to the new Council of International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) as one of the...

📅 October 8, 2013

US government shuts down as budget couldn’t be passed

Having unable to pass the annual budget, the US government has been shut down for the first time...

📅 October 5, 2013

IPCC report: Humans are dominant cause of Global Warming

A latest report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on global warming claims that it has evidence...

📅 October 4, 2013

Iraq ratifies Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Iraq ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), a treaty which provides for nuclear disarmament and bans...

📅 October 3, 2013

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