By Gaurav Sharma Hangzhou (China):(IANS) India on Monday told the G20 grouping that it was not ready to ratify the Paris accord before 2016. "We are not quite ready yet in terms of domestic actions that are required to ratify or at least to commit to ratify within...
Mumbai: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that if the benefits of growth are to percolate down to the last man, especially minorities, it is important that the growth rate should be high enough. Addressing a Conference on Empowerment through Education –...
Dubai, (IINA) : Preparations are all set to hold the third Middle East Franchise Expo & Forum on October 25-26 at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel in Dubai, WAM reported Monday. Vice President of the Middle East and North Africa Franchise Association Omar Al-Hazza stated...
Jeddah, (IINA) : A three-member delegation of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), headed by Assistant Secretary General Ambassador Muhammad Naeem Khan, visited Kazakhstan's capital Astana on August 24-27, to hold further preparatory discussions on the OIC...
Tunis, (IINA) : Tunisia's National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) will organize an ‘Islam and Human Rights’ exhibition’ and other events at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Council of Arab Interior Ministers in Tunis in March 2017. NHRC said that the...
Caracas, (IANS) : Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in Venezuela on Saturday to boost the two countries' bilateral cooperation. In a brief interview with the state-owned Venezolana de Televisión, Zarif said that the two countries' central banks...
New Delhi, (IANS) : The BRICS group of emerging economies need to soon set up a task force of officials to explore a mechanism for setting up arbitration centres for use by the grouping as well as by non-BRICS countries, Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on...
Washington, (IANS) : In what is likely to be the last major engagement between India and the outgoing administration of President Barack Obama, US Secretary of State John Kerry and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker are coming to India next week for the second...
Cairo, (IINA) : Jordanian King Abdullah on Wednesday discussed with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ways to cement ties between the two countries and a number of Middle East issues. The King arrived here on a working visit to Egypt on Tuesday. The two leaders discussed...
New Delhi, (IANS) : Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will inaugurate a conference on arbitration at the BRICS Summit 2016 on August 27 in the national capital. The conference aims to assess, evaluate and debate ideas on international arbitration among the member...