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In 2025, India should play the role of peacemaker in world affairs
The New Year has brought a grim reminder from New Orleans of terror as a threat, even as war rages in West Asia, Europe and elsewhere. India must push for UN reforms and a permanent seat at the high table on the back of global principles with world peace as the aim.
3 min read3 Jan 2025Mint Quick Edit: When will the Gaza War end?
Of the 43,000-plus killed so far in Israeli military action, over two-thirds are women and children. Israel’s campaign must end but the US has again vetoed a UN Security Council call for a ceasefire. Will the US under Trump be any different?
1 min read22 Nov 2024‘UK Should Vacate Permanent Seat For India…’: Ex-UNSC President Kishore Mahbubani | Exclusive
As the ‘third most-powerful country’ in the world, India should get its ‘rightful place’ as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council according to ex-Singaporean diplomat Kishore Mahbubani, a former president of the UNSC. In this exclusive interview with Abhishek Singh, Deputy Editor Mint, Professor Kishore Mahbubani said, ’UK should vacate its seat for India at the UNSC’, adding further that ’it would be the most perfect reparation’. Watch.
10 Sep 2024EAM Jaishankar Slams P5 For Scuttling UNSC Reforms: ‘The Game Is RIGGED’ | Watch
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar slammed the ‘short-sighted’ approach of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. Which he said is holding back forward movement in the long-pending reform of the global body. During an interview at the Raisina Dialogue, he said the ’biggest’ opponent for reform of the UN Security Council is not a Western country, in remarks seen as an oblique reference to China.
23 Feb 2024Mint Explainer: How is India pushing to reform the UN Security Council?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged world leaders at the G20 leaders’ summit to make global structures, including the UNSC, reflective of current realities
2 min read12 Sep 2023India Pulls 415 Mn Out Of Poverty; UN Applauds ‘Efforts’ & The ‘Remarkable Reduction…’
India’s efforts to reduce poverty have resulted in a remarkable outcome. According to a United Nations Development Programme report, India has pulled 415 million people out of poverty over the last 15 years. As per the global Multidimensional Poverty Index which was released by UNDP and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford India has halved its MPI. How did India do it? Watch the video to find out.
11 Jul 2023Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj alleges bias for ‘five nations’, questions effectiveness of multilateralism
‘We are collectively aware of the inadequacies of the multilateral system that has failed to respond to contemporary challenges, whether it be the Covid pandemic or the ongoing conflict in Ukraine,’ Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj said.
1 min read25 Apr 2023Europeans Weigh Confronting Russia at U.N. Over Evan Gershkovich Case
Moscow takes monthly presidency of Security Council; two European nations likely to raise reporter’s arrest, diplomats say
4 min read3 Apr 2023UNSC to ask Israel to ‘immediately’ stop all settlement activities in Palestine, calls it ‘flagrant violation’
The UNSC draft resolution is going to demand Israel to ‘immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory’.
1 min read16 Feb 2023UN approves 1-year extension of humanitarian aid from Turkey to Syria
The resolution was adopted after the United States and Russia reached a deal on rival draft resolutions backed by the West and Moscow
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Budget
The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared