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ONI Bureau:  Good Afternoon Readers! Here are the Afternoon News Bulletin on India and World by Odisha News Insight. —   Uttarakhand: Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated Diwali with Jawans of the Indian Armed Forces at Harsil today.…

ONI Bureau:  India was elected to the United Nations' top Human Rights body on Friday with highest votes among all candidates. India will continue as top body for a period of three years beginning 1 January 2019. India bagged 188 votes…

ONI Bureau:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday received the United Nations' highest environmental honour 'Champions of the Earth' award for 2018 by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at a special ceremony in the Pravasi Bharatiya…

ONI Bureau:  In a world beset by terror and hateful ideologies, "the wisdom of pioneering leaders like (Nelson) Mandela should remain as our moral compass", according to Extenal Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. Speaking on Monday at the…

ONI Bureau:  Kofi Annan, the former Secretary-General of United Nations and Nobel Peace Prize laureate breathed his last on Saturday at a hospital in Switzerland after short illness. He was 80. Kofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who…

Jean Pierre Lacroix, the United Nations Under Secretary General for Peacekeeping, on Saturday thanked India for her contribution towards peacekeeping efforts by the UN. "The aim of the visit is to thank India for her contribution to UN…

The US has pulled out of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The body is "hypocritical and self-serving" and "makes a mockery of human rights", said Nikki Haley, the US envoy to the UN. Haley last year accused the council of…

A vast majority of nations, including disaster-facing India, are missing the mark in achieving the goal set at the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The leaked United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…