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Topic: United Nations Security Council

Why is UNSC ‘completely ineffective’ in resolving the Russia-Ukraine conflict, asks India

India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ruchira Kamboj, raised questions at UNGA plenary meeting held to mark two years of Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Joe Biden using strikes on Iraq and Syria to boost image ahead of elections, says Russia

Countering Russia's accusations, Deputy US Ambassador to UN, Robert Wood, justified the strikes under Article 51 of the founding UN Charter as states' right to self-defense against armed attack.

It was to avoid war with Pakistan that we went to the Security Council—Nehru on Kashmir

On 31 January 1957, the Indian prime minister delivered a speech at Island Grounds in Madras where he spoke about the UN resolution and the conditions laid out for a plebiscite in J&K.

China blocks India-US proposal at UNSC to blacklist LeT member Shahid Mahmood

This is the fourth time that China has blocked such a proposal at the Council in recent months after several Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists including Sajid Mir were protected by Beijing.

India concerned over reported shelling near Ukrainian nuclear power plant, urges restraint

The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog said that fighting close to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia NPP had caused some damage to the facility and called for an immediate inspection.

Not 1st time India abstained in vote against Russia. It’s about Delhi’s own security interests

India took its traditional stance on resolution against Russia’s ‘aggression’. It stems from a historical grudge against Western and UNSC actions on matters affecting India’s security.

Anti-Hindu, anti-Buddhist & anti-Sikh phobias need UN attention, says Indian envoy Tirumurti

T.S. Tirumurti, Indian Ambassador to UN & chair of UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee for 2022, says ‘terrorists are terrorists, there are no good or bad ones’.

UNSC must be made more representative of developing countries, says Harsh Shringla

Speaking at a multilateral forum, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla also said that India values multipolar global order underpinned on respect for sovereignty.

Global community must encourage direct peace talks between Israel, Palestine, says India

India will support all international efforts that attempt to achieve a just, lasting and comprehensive resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, TS Tirumurti said Thursday.

India, US reaffirm strategic partnership at bilateral meeting of UN Security Council envoys

US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield met India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador T S Tirumurti and agreed to work together to strengthen multilateralism.

On Camera

72% of Indians are in favour of military rule. Complicates ‘deepening of democracy’ theory

The search for a permanent and coherent popular meaning of democracy is futile. The Pew report underlines this ever-evolving tendency of popular democracy in the Indian context.

Why Tamil Nadu’s women make up nearly half of India’s female factory workforce

With an educated & skilled workforce, Tamil Nadu has a burgeoning industrial sector which has scored massive investments in automobiles, electronics, and even footwear.

India deploys 11 submarines, a first in nearly three decades 

This deployment by the Indian Navy Friday is a stark contrast to the submarine history of the last two decades that has seen the arm hit by dwindling strength, accidents and write-offs.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.