United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres

India warns of possible United Nations peacekeeping 'tragedy'

Citing the conditions under which peacekeepers operate in the DRC, India's Permanent Representative Syed Akbaruddin told the Security Council on Tuesday: "The strategy of peacekeepers needing to do more with less is setting us all up for a tragedy." Nov 21, 2018
United Nations, UN building

Child mortality rate steadily decreasing in India, UN study finds

However, as per the report released by Unicef, the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Population Division and the World Bank Group, an estimated 6.3 million children under 15 years of age died in 2017 and the vast majority of these deaths -- 5.4 million -- occurred in the first five years of life, with newborns accounting for around half of the deaths. Sep 18, 2018