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India on Monday launched its official campaign for a non-permanent seat at the UN Security Council for the 2028-29 term. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar launched India’s official campaign ‘Shanti: India for the United Nations Security Council 2028-29. Norms, Trust, Integrity’ for the two-year tenure at a special event in the UN headquarters attended by…
India delivered a scathing rebuke of Pakistan at the United Nations Security Council on Monday, condemning Islamabad’s military airstrikes on Afghan territory as flagrant violations of international law while simultaneously showcasing its expansive humanitarian footprint across Afghanistan. Speaking at a UNSC meeting on the situation in Afghanistan, India’s Permanent Representative Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni pulled no…
India blasted Pakistan at the United Nations on Monday for spreading state-sponsored misinformation by branding militant groups operating within its own borders as “Fitna al Hindustan”. Addressing a United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in Afghanistan, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni, said Pakistan was trying to shift blame on…
India on Saturday condemned the attack on French UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, urging the Lebanese government to urgently investigate this attack and bring its perpetrators to justice. A French soldier was killed and three others wounded while clearing a road in southern Lebanon in an attack that UN peacekeepers and French officials claimed was carried…
At least 64 people, including 13 children, were killed and 89 others injured after an attack struck a hospital in Sudan’s East Darfur, the World Health Organization (WHO) said, as the United Nations warned of escalating attacks on healthcare in the conflict-ravaged country. The strike targeted Al-Daein Teaching Hospital, the main health facility in the…
Last Updated:January 22, 2026, 4:29 pm IST Trump said the ‘Board of Peace’ was one of the most consequential bodies ever created and promised to work with the UN towards establishing peace in Gaza. US President Donald Trump at the Gaza Peace Board Charter announcement. (Reuters) US President Donald Trump addressed the Gaza ‘Board of…
New York: Iran has urged the United Nations to take note of what it calls “unlawful and provocative threats” made by US President Donald Trump, as protests continue to spread across the country over economic distress. Iran’s permanent representative to the UN, Amir Saeed Iravani, has written to the UN secretary-general and the president of…
United States: Every 10 minutes last year a woman somewhere in the world was killed by a person close to her, the United Nations said Monday as it decried a lack of progress in the battle against femicide. Some 50,000 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members in 2024, the United…
Last Updated:November 16, 2025, 06:00 IST India has emphasised that the overall endeavour needs to be on ‘redesigning’ the Council’s architecture to meet current and future challenges purposefully India, alongside its G4 partners—Brazil, Germany, and Japan—advocates for increasing the total membership of the Council from the current 15 to around 25 or 26 by adding six…
United Nations rights experts said Tuesday that the United States’ covert actions and threats of using armed force against Caracas “violate Venezuela’s sovereignty and the UN Charter”. US President Donald Trump has waged a military campaign that he says is aimed at choking the flow of drugs from Latin America to the United States. “These…