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Topic: United Nations

SubscriberWrites: What UN Security Council non-permanent membership for 2024-2025 means to Slovenia?

Slovenia has been a robust contender, due to its credentials, by providing consistent funding for the UN budget and making contributions to the UN peacekeepers missions.

SubscriberWrites: Know Thyself Oh My Compatriots

The problem of a huge population is confounded by its high social heterogeneity and limited resources.

MEA budget sees 35% cut in contributions to international bodies. UN, Nalanda University top list

This comes as India has been calling for reformation of the UN, especially with regards to the composition of its most powerful body, the UN Security Council.

India attends Taliban-hosted conference in Kabul on mutual regional interests in Afghanistan

Conference attended by 11 countries, reportedly including China, Russia and Pakistan. Afghanistan urged neighbours 'to help remove Western sanctions & promote economic development'.

Israel intelligence dossier accuses 190 UN staff of having links to militants, names 11

In a six-page dossier, Israel claimed the accused UN staff have been involved in abductions & killings, prompting countries to halt funds to UN aid agency UNRWA.

US, Canada & other countries halt funding to UNRWA over claims of staff’s involvement in 7 Oct attack

The halt in funding comes after Israel incriminated 12 UNRWA staffers of their participation, including using agency vehicles & facilities as 1,200 Israelis were massacred in the Hamas attack.

‘Absurd’: Elon Musk bats for India’s permanent UNSC seat, slams ‘those with excess power’ not giving up

China has been blocking reforms to allow new members in an expanded Security Council. For long, New Delhi is calling for inclusion of new members to reflect new world order.

India elected vice-chair of UN fisheries body amid countries calling out China’s illegal fishing

Established in 1965, FAO Committee on Fisheries addresses issues on international fishing and aquaculture, providing policy guidance among others.

UN aid chief Martin Griffiths calls anew for Gaza ceasefire, urges UN action to bring war to end

Quoting Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, he said that more than 23,000 Palestinians have been killed and over 58,000 injured since Israel launched the offensive.

‘Cruel, inhuman’: UN experts sound alarm over planned first US execution by nitrogen gas

Kenneth Smith, convicted for a 1988 murder-for-hire, is set to be executed in Alabama on 25 Jan using nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen via a face mask connected to a cylinder.

On Camera

Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.