Malleswaram Mirror Special: Around Town: Chip in
Malleswaram Mirror Special: Around Town: Chip in
Bangalore Mirror Bureau / Updated: Feb 20, 2021, 06:00 IST
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Put your Sunday, February 21, to good use and be a part of the Nails Free Trees campaign organised by the Namaste Hasiru Mission Volunteers, in collaboration with Bengaluru Hudugaru and Hasiru Mission.
Volunteers will assemble in front of Sampige Talkies, near
Mantri Mall, to carry out the campaign. Confirm your participation by sending this message – YES211, to Jairaj at 8884399711 or Vinod Kartavya 9611733032.
Bhaskar Rao, Chief of Railway Police, and
N Manjunath Prasad,
BBMP Commissioner will be the chief guests at the event. Volunteers are requested to bring their own nose plier / cutting plier / nail removing implement.
New York, Feb 18 (IANS) External Affairs S. Jaishankar is to participate on Thursday in a virtual ministerial meeting of the Quad, according to the State Department.
The discussions between Jaishankar, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Foreign Ministers Marise Payne of Australia and Toshimitsu Motegi Japan is critical to advancing our shared goals of free and open Indo-Pacific and rising to the defining challenges of our time , State Department Spokesperson Ned Price said on Wednesday.
He said that coordinating our efforts like Covid-19 response, as well as climate change , will also figure in their discussions, he said.
This meeting and another scheduled to Thursday between Blinken, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian makes clear that the United States values, our alliances and work with our partners and friends around the world to pursue common interests across the world , Price added.
On February 15, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba took part in a ministerial conference initiated by Canada to adopt a Declaration Against Arbitrary Detention in State-to-State Relations.
When she takes office on 1 March
, Dr Okonjo-Iweala will become the first woman and the first African to be chosen as Director-General. Her term, renewable, will expire on 31 August 2025.
“This is a very significant moment for the WTO. On behalf of the General Council, I extend our warmest congratulations to Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on her appointment as the WTO s next Director-General and formally welcome her to this General Council meeting,” said General Council Chair David Walker of New Zealand who, together with co-facilitators Amb. Dacio Castillo (Honduras) and Amb. Harald Aspelund (Iceland) led the nine-month DG selection process.
“Dr Ngozi, on behalf of all members I wish to sincerely thank you for your graciousness in these exceptional months, and for your patience. We look forward to collaborating closely with you, Dr Ngozi, and I am certain that all members will work with you constructively during your tenure as Director-General to shape the future of