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Saturday, October 4, 2025
TopicUnited Nations

Topic: United Nations

CAA protesters’ arrest ‘designed to send chilling message’: UN asks India to free activists

US statement mentions 11 individuals, including Meeran Haider, Safoora Zargar, Devangana Kalita, Natasha Narwal, Khalid Saifi, Dr Kafeel Khan, Sharjeel Imam & Akhil Gogoi.

India to serve as president of UN Security Council for August 2021

India, along with Norway, Ireland, Mexico and Kenya, was elected as the non-permanent member of the UNSC Wednesday, for a two-year term beginning 1 January 2021.

Countering terror will be the focus in India’s eighth stint as UNSC non-permanent member

The MEA also brought up the need for UN reforms in a media briefing held after India’s appointment as a member of the security council.

All about UN Security Council and India’s non-permanent membership for the 8th time

India was elected as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council with an overwhelming majority Wednesday.

Nearly 49 million more people vulnerable to extreme poverty because of Covid-19: UN Chief

Secretary-General Guterres warned that unless immediate action is taken, it is increasingly clear that we are staring at an impending global food emergency.

Schools re-opening during crisis not a return to normal, we must do things differently: UN

UNESCO, UNICEF and World Bank have come up with guidelines for re-opening of schools across the world.

Paris deal to WHO, the 11 organisations Donald Trump’s US has pulled out of, weakened

From weakening WTO and NATO to pulling out of several UN organisations, Donald Trump has now targeted at least 11 global cooperation bodies or pacts.

Economic fallout of Covid could push 86 million children into household poverty: UN report

The analysis revealed that the total number of children living below national poverty line in low & middle-income countries could reach 672 million by year-end.

India, China should avoid any action that would increase tensions: UN spokesperson

The spokesperson said it was not for the Secretary General to opine who should mediate in the situation, a day after US President Donald Trump offered to do so.

UN official raises concerns over hate speech in India, cites Subramanian Swamy’s comments

The Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide said India was seeing an increase in discrimination against minorities ever since the CAA was passed.

On Camera

English didn’t enslave India. It was the harbinger of a new creative consciousness: A Ranganathan

Rabindranath Tagore stood apart from his contemporaries by infusing poetry and universalism into Indian nationalism, opposing chauvinism and blind obedience, wrote A Ranganathan in 1962.

Nodal officers to fast-tracking NOCs, Kerala govt’s heeding investor concerns, and it means business

As many as 21 policy reforms are under implementation following Invest Kerala Global Summit, as LDF govt works to change perception that the state is not conducive to businesses.

Army chief’s big warning to Pakistan: Stop sponsoring terrorism if you want to exist geographically

Amid continued concerns over cross-border terrorism, General Upendra Dwivedi further warned the neighbour that India will not show restraint if there is an Op Sindoor 2.0.

How Pakistan thinks: Army for hire, ideology of convenience

Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.