Universal Postal Union (UPU)

World Post Day is observed every year on October 9 to spread awareness about the postal services and their role in the everyday lives of people and businesses.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is in Delhi to participate in the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth said that the world body must fully support India’s leadership on climate change and its development plans.

U.S., Canada: free trade pact

Canada and the U.S. reached a deadline deal on a new free trade pact that will include Mexico, after more than a year of talks to revamp a pact President Donald Trump had labelled a disaster.

G-4 Nations and UNSC reforms

Recently, India and other Group 4 countries reaffirmed their commitment to multilateralism and called for the early reform of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).

UN’s Champions of the Earth Awards

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been awarded with the UN’s highest environmental honour, also given to five other individuals and organisations.

Man Booker Prize 2018

The shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards, includes for the first time a novel told in
Verse.