S Jaishankar at Brics meeting in Kazan NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar, speaking at the Brics Plus Summit on Thursday, reiterated India’s pitch for reforms in the permanent and the non-permanent categories of the UN Security Council.Speaking at the 16th Brics summit in Brics plus format in Russia’s Kazan, Jaishankar also sought reforms…
AI generated image: lexica.art Over 1.1 billion people are living in acute poverty with India having the highest number of poor people followed by Pakistan, according to UN‘s Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2024 released on Thursday.“The five countries with the largest number of people living in poverty are India (234 million), which is medium HDI,…
NEW DELHI: Foreign minister S Jaishankar lashed out at Pakistan for its PM Shehbaz Sharif‘s remarks against India at the UN, saying that a dysfunctional nation coveting the lands of others must be exposed and countered.Countering Sharif’s “bizarre assertions” in which he had spoken about an alleged Hindu supremacist agenda and claimed that the people…
NEW DELHI: A group of protestors gathered outside the United Nations headquarters in New York to demonstrate against Bangladesh chief adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus. The protestors raised slogans of ‘terrorist, minority killer, Hindu killer Yunus, go back, step down’ outside the office. “He (Yunus) took the power illegally. He threw a constitutionally elected legal government…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem on Sunday declared plans to intensify their cross-border attacks, raising concerns about a potential escalation into a larger conflict, the New York Times reported.Qassem indicated that the attacks marked the start of a new phase of warfare. “What happened last night is just the…
NEW DELHI: Large groups of people have gathered at the India-Bangladesh border amid the ongoing political crisis in the country. Over the past few days, the BSF has foiled several attempts by large groups to sneak into India.Visuals captured from the Indian side at Pathantuli in Sitalkuchi, Cooch Behar, West Bengal, show a massive crowd…
United Nations (Photo: Reuters) GENEVA: The United Nations human rights office on Friday expressed serious concern over families circumventing national bans on female genital mutilation (FGM) by crossing borders to have the procedure performed in countries where it remains legal or where laws prohibiting it are not enforced.In a newly released report, the UN rights…
Waibhav Anil Kale, a retired Indian Army colonel serving as an observer with UN‘s department of safety and security (UNDSS), was killed in war-torn Gaza on Monday. Kale (46), survived by his wife and two teenage children who live in Pune, had joined UN barely a month ago and was headed for European Hospital in…
NEW DELHI: An Indian personnel serving with the United Nations tragically lost their life in Gaza‘s Rafah area when the vehicle they were traveling in came under attack, marking the “first international” casualty for the organization since the onset of the Israel-Hamas conflict.The individual, identified as a staff member of the United Nations Department of…
NEW DELHI: India has backed Palestine’s bid for full membership in the United Nations, which was rejected by the US last month, will be revisited and its efforts to join the global organization will be supported.In a vote on a draft resolution recommending “that the State of Palestine be admitted to membership in the United…
