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Guterres invokes UN Charter to call for UNSC action on Gaza

In a bid to push the paralysed Security Council to act on Gaza, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday invoked a rarely used provision of the Charter to call its attention to the looming “human catastrophe” there and to request a humanitarian ceasefire.

The Big Five~II

Has the Security Council fulfilled its obligations and upheld the principles enriched in the world Constitution the UN Charter and…

‘Indian moves excessively cautious’

At a time when the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan will profoundly affect the geopolitics of the region, the former Foreign Secretary of India, Krishnan Srinivasan speaks to Soumyadip Mullick on what policy India must adopt now to tackle the Afghan dilemma.

Shoot the Shadow

The dumping of bodies is indubitably an outrage of a Buddhist shrine, if ever there was one. “It is like a genocide. They are shooting at every shadow,” was the lament of an organiser of the protest against the gross injustice meted out to Aung San Suu Kyi post her election victory yet again.

India calls out Pakistan’s ‘Pavlovian’ behaviour at UN

"I do not wish to waste the time of this Assembly by responding to the irrelevant and irresponsible remarks made by the representative of Pakistan, which has become 'Pavlovian' whenever India is mentioned," Tirumurti said on Monday at a General Assembly session on Security Council reform.