On 10 December 2022, the newspaper headline read, “India stands isolated at UN Security Council (UNSC) during its Presidency.” The reason, New Delhi did not vote in favor of Resolution 2664 establishing a ‘humanitarian carve out’ to the asset freeze measures imposed by the UN sanctions regime. The resolution would facilitate the work of humanitarian […] The post The World Cannot Ignore Misgivings On India Getting A Permanent UNSC Seat appeared first on The Friday Times - Naya Daur.
I was a young graduate student in England when the Cuban Missile Crisis erupted and brought the world to the brink of nuclear catastrophe. It was almost exactly 60 years ago in October 1962 that deadly fear gripped the world. The Soviet Union had surreptitiously stored nuclear ballistic missiles in Cuba, a mere 90 miles […] The post Is Our World Facing Threat Of Nuclear Conflict? appeared first on The Friday Times - Naya Daur.