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Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri [1] (born 1952) is a former assistant secretary-general at the United Nations and the former deputy executive director of UN Women. [2] Prior to her 15-year stint at the United Nations, she served as an Indian diplomat for 28 years. From 1999 until 2002, she was India's Ambassador to Hungary, while also concurrently ...
23 hours ago · Senior Advocate- Maninder Singh (Former ASG) on behalf of Ms. Lakshmi M. Puri, who was briefed by a team from Karanjawala & Company comprising of Ms. Meghna Mishra- Sr. Partner along with Tarun ...
1 day ago · PTI. New Delhi, July 1. The Delhi High Court directed TMC leader Saket Gokhale on Monday to apologise and pay Rs 50 lakh damages to former diplomat Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri, the wife of Union ...
Mar 2, 2024 · S wallowing the Sun by Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri is unputdownable and beyond all expectations. I was prepared to be engaged, but I was not prepared for the wealth of talent she lays bare in her literary debut. In a distinguished diplomatic career, spanning 43 years, Puri was first in the Indian Foreign Service, and then, at the United Nations, New York.
Jan 26, 2024 · Lakshmi Puri's Swallowing the Sun (Rs 899, Aleph) (Credit: Amazon.in) Set during the freedom movement, Lakshmi Puri’s Swallowing the Sun (Rs 899, Aleph) is about the encounter of India’s national story with unknown individuals, the constant tussle between revolution and reform, encapsulated in the gaze of Malati, a girl from a Maharashtrian village who grows up to know the cost at which independence — for herself and her country — comes. We speak to Puri on how the novel came about.
Apr 20, 2011 · Ms. Lakshmi Puri has more than 37 years’ experience in economic and development policy-making as well as in political, peace and security, humanitarian and human rights–related diplomacy. More than twenty years of these have been in relation to the United Nations system. She has promoted the gender equality and women’s empowerment agenda throughout her career. She has considerable experience and professional background in all the thematic and
May 4, 2024 · Lakshmi M Puri says that the freedom struggle is a live character in her novel and not just a backdrop. Trisha Mukherjee. Published on : 04 May 2024, 11:30 pm. Lakshmi M Puri speaks to Trisha ...
Mar 16, 2015 · Lakshmi Puri: I grew up in post-independent India, which was very much influenced by a generation which had just undergone a protracted freedom struggle and a freedom struggle that had embraced gender equality and women’s empowerment. Mahatma Gandhi was a strong supporter of that while [Jawaharlal] Nehru was also a strong supporter of women’s rights. I also grew up in a feminist home.
Ms. Lakshmi Puri Assistance Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women, India. Ms. Puri is Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women, where she leads the Bureau for Intergovernmental Support, United Nations Coordination, and Strategic Partnerships. Prior to joining UN Women, Ms. Puri was the Director of the UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States in ...
Oct 24, 2016 · UN Women Deputy Executive Director Lakshmi Puri recently received the annual Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award 2016, awarded by the United Nations Association of the United States of America, San Diego Chapter (UNA-USA San Diego), to honour outstanding leaders in the human rights community and to mark the 68th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
1 day ago · Lakshmi Puri is the wife of Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri. She had sued Saket Gokhale after he alleged that she had purchased certain property in Switzerland disproportionate to her income. In July 2021, the Court had passed an interim order and directed Gokhale to remove the allegedly defamatory tweets. He was also restrained from posting any defamatory content against the Puris.
Jun 7, 2013 · Speech on “Justice, Security, and Women’s Leadership – UN Women’s Priorities in Combatting Violence against Women in Conflict” by Acting Head of UN Women and UN Assistant Secretary-General Lakshmi Puri, as part of a lecture series for the Liechtenstein Center for Self-Determination, Princeton University, organized by the Permanent Mission of Liechtenstein and PeaceWomen. 7 June 2013, New York.
In her lecture, Ms. Lakshmi Puri, Acting Head of UN Women and UN Assistant Secretary-General, analyzed recent normative and operational developments in the effort to prevent violence against women during and after conflict, review UN Women’s own contributions, and argued that protection efforts are inseparable from efforts to empower women and build their leadership capacities.
Lakshmi Puri is an eminent Indian diplomat known for her extensive work in international relations and gender equality. She served as the Assistant Secretary...
Jan 13, 2024 · ―Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri. That was when Puri began writing a story that she had lived with―one that she had grown up listening to. But it took a lifetime to complete. “I started writing when I was ambassador in Budapest, from 1999 to 2002,” she says. It is the dying days of December 2023 in Delhi. Puri is at her home, having taken a leap into fiction from the matter-of-fact world of diplomacy. “After about 43 years in what I call the pantomime of diplomacy, I really wanted to ...
1 day ago · New Delhi, Jul 1 (PTI) The Delhi High Court directed TMC leader Saket Gokhale on Monday to apologise and pay Rs 50 lakh damages to former diplomat Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri, the wife of Union ...
So thrilled to be invited at this absolutely prestigious book Launch of Ms. Lakshmi Puri. It was an enriching experience attending the book launch of ‘Swallowing the Sun’ written by feisty and inspiring author @lakshmimpuri Lakshmi Puri, a woman of substance ! When I shared about the book launch with my father, he mentioned his fondness for Mr. Hardeep Puri during his days at Time Magazine as South Asia’s General Manager. And how Mr. Rajeev Talwar wrote a foreword for his friend Mr ...
1 day ago · The Delhi High Court on Monday asked All India Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale to pay Rs. 50 lakhs damages to former Indian Assistant Secretary-General to the United Nations, Lakshmi Puri, in ...
Jun 19, 2013 · Speech by Acting Head of UN Women Lakshmi Puri on Ending Violence against Women and Children at the ACP-EU Parliamentary Assembly on 18 June 2013, in Brussels. Good morning. Honourable Co-Presidents of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly Ms. Joyce Laboso (congratulations on this new important role) and Mr. Louis Michel, Honourable Members of Parliament, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Jul 13, 2021 · Aditya AK. Published on : 13 Jul 2021, 10:10 am. 5 min read. The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed journalist Saket Gokhale to take down his tweets in which he had alleged impropriety on the part of former United Nations officer Lakshmi Puri related to the purchase of a flat in Switzerland.
Lakshmi Puri is the Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women, the United Nations entity for gender equality. Throughout her career, she has focused on women’s empowerment and rights, and lead the implementation of UN-wide accountability for gender equality. After joining the UN Women senior leadership team in 2011, she positioned the organization as a key player on the global stage and helmed its involvement with the Rio+20 Conference and ...
1 day ago · Gokhale orderd to pay Rs 50 lakh to Lakshmi Puri in defamation case Court notes that Gokhale's tweets harmed Puri's societal position The Delhi High Court on Monday ordered Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale to publish an apology and pay Rs 50 lakh in damages to former Indian Assistant Secretary-General to the United Nations, Lakshmi Puri, in her defamation suit against him.
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Lakshmi Puri is a former assistant secretary general, United Nations and Ambassador. The views expressed are personal. Get World Cup ready with Crick-it! From live scores to match stats, catch all ...
Jul 12, 2021 · Lakshmi Puri is a former Assistant Secretary-General at the UN and the ex-Deputy Executive Director of UN Women. Earlier, she served as an Indian diplomat for 28 years. Puri joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1974 and served in Japan, Sri Lanka, Switzerland (Geneva). She was India's Ambassador to Hungary and accredited to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
