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Now South Asia is being seen as the new driver of global economic growth
Pakistan and Sri Lanka are pulling down South Asia’s overall performance.
UNSC finally adopts resolution calling for increased aid to Gaza to avert humanitarian crisis
Friday’s resolution was the sixth to come before the Council since the Hamas terror strike on Israel that killed about 1,200 people and took about 240 people hostage on October 7, and Israel's retaliation that has resulted in about 20,000 deaths, mostly of civilians in Gaza.
Combating terrorism in Afghanistan ‘immediate priority’ of India
Kamboj made it a point to reiterate that all of Kashmir, including those under occupation by Pakistan, is a part of India by describing India “as a contiguous neighbour to Afghanistan”.
UNESCO recognises India’s garba dance and Bangladesh’s rickshaws as humanity’s cultural heritage
“Over the decades Garba has been an integral, multivalent component of Gujarati culture in India and among the Indian diaspora across the globe”, it said.
Call at UN to make India-launched Mission LIFE a collective movement to address environmental challenges
Mission LIFE adds “a synergy of individual choices and global collaboration” as “an important force in addressing environmental challenges”, the senior UN official said.
Pakistan set to get elected to UNSC as non-permanent member
If elected, Pakistan, which has used every opportunity at the UN to bring up Kashmir even on unrelated discussions, can be expected to keep harping on it on a platform that will give it more visibility.
India-UN Development Fund is seen as ‘epitome of South-South cooperation’
India’s Permanent Representative Ruchira Kamboj said, “India stands as a pillar of leadership and advocacy for the Global South”.
Why the UN is unable to condemn and fight global terrorism
The justification of terrorism has prevented the adoption of the CCIT and Pakistan presents the prime example of this ideology.
Fighting climate change: India walks the talk
An unusual project of the Fund was to install solar panels on the official residences of heads of state of 11 Pacific island nations as a way to highlight the importance of solar power and demonstrate its use.
With the Security Council ‘crumbling’, India says ‘naysayers’ should be stopped from blocking UN reform
A 12-member group of countries known as Uniting for Consensus, which is led by Italy and has Pakistan as a leading member, has used procedural tactics to prevent the adoption of a negotiating text because they oppose expanding the permanent membership of the Council, a demand of the majority of UN's 193 members.
Two Bangladeshi peacekeepers injured in attack on UN convoy in Mali
It was the second deadliest peacekeeping operation - 310 peacekeepers have died in the mission, 18 from Bangladesh, according to UN data.
Former Indian diplomat to head UN panel on artificial intelligence
Guterres cast a wide net for talent to be on the panel, which includes government officials and religious leaders, academics and activists, and business figures from technology companies like Google and Sony, drawn from every continent.
UN fails the world again: Big-power duels stymie efforts to mitigate humanitarian crisis in Gaza
Four resolutions on Gaza have failed at the Council in the last ten days, with Russia and the US vetoing one each, illustrating the inefficacy of the UN’s highest decision-making body when the national interests of the permanent members collide.
Blinken cites India's 26/11, L-e-T while denouncing terrorism as 'unjustifiable'; Pakistan reacts
Some have suggested that Western countries have double standards in how they view Palestinian and Israeli lives....Blinken said, “There is no hierarchy when it comes to protecting civilian lives. A civilian is a civilian is a civilian, no matter his or her nationality, ethnicity, age, gender, faith”.
