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Sunday, July 27, 2025
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Topic: United Nations

Pakistan’s decision to release IAF pilot Abhinandan Varthaman a welcome step, says UN

UN chief Antonio Guterres reiterated to India and Pakistan that they need to work towards de-escalating the current tensions.

On day 2 of Kulbhushan Jadhav’s ICJ hearing, Pakistan slams India’s ‘political theatre’

Khawar Qureshi, who is representing Pakistan at the ICJ hearing, said India has demonstrated a lack of faith throughout the proceedings.

India calls for combined effort to revitalise ‘global parliament’ UN General Assembly

India has highlighted specific areas that the UN member states should focus on while discussing the broad subject of revitalizing it.

India and Pakistan should engage in meaningful dialogue to resolve issues, says UN chief

The UN chief was responding to a question on his repeated urging of dialogue between the two South Asian neighbours.

This is how Islam is getting a Communist makeover in China

Reports from China suggest that the country will soon release a five-year 'outline' for the 'Sinicisation' of Islam.

Top UN official raps Twitter for censoring Kashmir-related content at Modi govt’s behest

UN Special Rapporteur David Kaye pointed out that the govt had made these demands since 2016, but Twitter had begun to accede to them only since July 2017

Pakistan PM Imran Khan raises Kashmir issue with UN

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric didn’t give details of Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s meeting with Secretary General Antonio Guterres but reiterated the UN’s earlier stand on the matter.

Lawyers welcome witness protection scheme, but rue cases it failed to help

The Supreme Court recently approved the witness protection scheme drawn by the home ministry and ordered its immediate implementation.

China to probe gene-editing case, and Ukraine imposes martial law after Russia clash

UAE pardons British scholar Matthew Hedges who was jailed for spying, and China United Nations report claims home most dangerous place for women.

Pak far-right parties have not got over Asia Bibi verdict yet as another march is in the offing

Here's what's happening across the border: Asia Bibi’s lawyer left Pakistan on UN, EU directives; Pak’s female comedian says it is always difficult for women.

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Maharashtra’s language war reaches West Bengal. Actor Prosenjit Chatterjee is the first victim

While the language war in other states is targeting those who can't speak the local language, in Bengal, even those whose mother tongue is Bengali have to constantly prove their Bengali-ness.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

DRDO successfully tests latest version of UAV-launched precision missile, ULPGM-V3

Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.