After a Russian attack on a nuclear facility in Ukraine, India said it attaches “highest importance” to ensuring the safety of its own atomic plants

India's Pujani was exercising the right of reply in Geneva to Pakistan Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari's statement at the High-Level Segment of the Council's 49th session

Bhutan broke ranks with India and joined the majority of countries in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in calling for respecting Ukrainian sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity and said it is deeply concerned by the escalating conflict in Ukraine

The UN General Assembly on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to censure Russia's invasion of Ukraine, while India abstained on the vote once again

Afghanistan’s economy is heading towards “a point of “irreversibility” and is nearing a “ tipping point” where there will be more businesses closed, job losses, the UN special envoy for the country has warned, asking the international community to work to address the issue of reviving the Afghan economy

In what comes a major relief for Afghanistan, the World Bank has approved a decision transferring $1 billion from the frozen Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) to United Nations' agencies and select international aid groups to support aid operations in the country gripped humanitarian crisis

India has offered to help evacuate citizens of neighbouring and other developing countries stranded in Ukraine but has said that efforts to evacuate its citizens from the war-hit country have been hampered by "adverse conditions" at the borders

Staying true to its traditionally neutral and nonaligned stand, especially on global issues outside its sphere of influence or core security interests,  India abstained for the third time on a Security Council vote on Ukraine and said it welcomed the decision by Ukraine and Russia to hold talks

The United Nations Security Council is to meet on Sunday (early Monday India time) in a hastily convened session to vote on a resolution to convene an emergency meeting of the General Assembly to take up the Ukraine crisis

India has been assigned a key role in the US Indo-Pacific strategy which says it would "support India's continued rise and regional leadership". Now, ironically India has found itself alongside China in the Security Council balancing act

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet acknowledged Sri Lanka’s legal, institutional, and constitutional reforms, but added concerns remain about the lack of accountability in Sri Lanka after gross violations of human rights

India, along with China and the United Arab Emirates, abstained on a Security Council resolution condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine

The UN resolution would be a test of India's position in a post-Cold War world that is quickly plunging into a new Cold War

As Russian President Vladimir Putin announced “special military operations” in Ukraine even as the Security Council was meeting in a late-night emergency session, India warned of a looming major crisis

India's statement was one of the mildest straddling the East and the West while most of the members roundly criticised Putin's actions