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India's Foreign ministry says some are enlisting deliberately, expecting to take the pay and then be rescued by the Indian government Representational Image Via: @MFA_Ukraine on X India's foreign ministry has issued a fresh advisory warning citizens against joining the Russian armed forces, saying some are now doing so deliberately and a number have renounced their Indian citizenship to enlist. The ministry said on Wednesday it continues to see reports of Indian nationals being recruited, more than two years after it first warned of the dangers. Two patterns in the advisory are new. The ministry said it had come across numerous instances of people willingly seeking out offers to join the Russian military, on the understanding that they could collect the money that comes with it and later secure their release by approaching the Indian government. It called this a dangerous path and said it was strongly discouraged. It also said numerous individuals had approached Indian aut...

Prime Minister Modi called it a productive conversation, a day after India's foreign minister said the two sides had reached broad understanding on a trade pact File Photo: @BohuslavskaKate on X Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to POTUS Donald Trump by telephone on Wednesday. The two leaders reviewed cooperation across trade, defence, energy and critical technologies, the Indian prime minister said. "Had a productive conversation with President Trump," Modi wrote on X. "We reviewed our bilateral cooperation in trade, defence, energy, critical technologies and other areas. We agreed to maintain close engagement to take our Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership forward." The two leaders also exchanged views on regional and international issues, he said, including efforts to advance global peace and security. The White House had not published its own account of the call at the time of writing. The conversation comes a day after India's externa...

INDIA alliance to march to the Election Commission on 6 October and hold a Delhi rally on 1 November while the BJP says the campaign is an alibi for expected defeat Image Source: @INCIndia on X India's opposition alliance, led by the Indian National Congress, announced a month-long programme of protests against the Election Commission on Wednesday, after a meeting in New Delhi, and said it wanted future elections conducted with paper ballots rather than electronic voting machines. The INDIA bloc will hold district-level "save democracy" marches and demonstrations outside district magistrates' offices from 2 to 8 October, the Congress president, Mallikarjun Kharge, noted. Opposition members of parliament will march to the Election Commission on 6 October. Leaders will seek a meeting with the president in the second week of October, five large rallies are planned, and a rally in Delhi on 1 November will focus on what the alliance has displayed its problems with the cu...

UNGA81 And The Multipolar Drift | Part 11 Of 15 Image Source: @EOIBeijing on X China used its address to the 81st UN General Assembly to present itself as a defender of the post-war order against unilateral force, bloc politics and protectionism, while avoiding the explicit language of multipolarity used by some of its partners. Vice President Han Zheng, who delivered China's national statement on Saturday, September 26, said the UN-centred international system and the order underpinned by international law that emerged after the Second World War "must be upheld". He called on states to "reject the Cold War mindset and bloc confrontation" and to "oppose unilateral military actions that violate the UN Charter and circumvent Security Council authorization". Major countries, he said, "shoulder special responsibilities" and "should take the lead in complying with rules, upholding rule of law and doing what's right". He did not nam...

UNGA81 And The Multipolar Drift | Part 10 Of 15 File Photo Via: @mfa_russia on X Russia used its address to the 81st UN General Assembly to argue that the era of Western dominance is ending, and to give that argument an institutional shape across Eurasia. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the General Debate on Saturday, September 26, that delegates had heard repeatedly, from the rostrum and in the corridors, that tectonic shifts were under way and that "a more just, multipolar world order is emerging before our very eyes". Countries of the Global South and East, he said, were asserting themselves as sovereign centres of growth and taking responsibility for security in their own regions. Quoting President Vladimir Putin, he said "the dictatorship of a single hegemon has run amok and is simply dangerous for everyone around it." The rest of the speech amounted to a charge sheet against the West. The "Western minority", which he said had dominated for fiv...

UNGA81 And The Multipolar Drift | Part 9 Of 15 Image Source: @DrSJaishankar on X India told the UN General Assembly that the international order built after 1945 is giving way, and that the world is moving towards multipolarity whether its institutions are ready or not. "We are now well on our way towards a multi-polar world. The post-1945 order is giving way to new realities," External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said in India's national statement on Saturday, September 26. "This process of adjustment, accommodation and acceptance will not be easy. Much of the turbulence that we witness today emanates from those very difficulties." The passage captured a long-held view in New Delhi that new centres of power are not in themselves the problem but institutions that have failed to adjust to them are. The inability of global institutions to keep the peace, Jaishankar said, was "not only weakening security, but is also threatening progress, slowing the pace...

UNGA81 And The Multipolar Drift | Part 8 Of 15 Image Source: @miaamormottley on X Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley told the UN General Assembly that small states depend on the survival of fair international rules, warning that "without an equitable rules-based order, smaller States like mine will simply cease to exist in this world." Addressing the General Debate on Thursday, September 24, Mottley argued that the world's problem was not a lack of knowledge but a failure to act on it, and that UN reform could not stop at administrative changes. "We cannot move swiftly to reorganize offices and reporting lines while allowing the most consequential questions of power and representation to remain unresolved," she said. "Reform cannot be selective." "So yes, let us improve the machinery. But let us also reform the exercise of power," she said. She pointed to Africa's lack of a permanent Security Council seat and to the absence of assured...

Five Pakistani nationals have been arrested after a 16-day operation ended in a boarding near Lakshadweep, in one of India's largest maritime drug hauls Image Source: Indian Coast Guard Indian agencies have seized 526 kilograms of heroin and methamphetamine from an Iranian dhow in the Arabian Sea and arrested five Pakistani crew members, the home minister and the Coast Guard said on Wednesday. The boat was intercepted within India's exclusive economic zone about 160 nautical miles north-west of Lakshadweep and 490 nautical miles south-west of Mumbai, Home Minister Amit Shah said. The Coast Guard put the value of the consignment at more than ₹3,000 crore, roughly $340 million at current rates. The Coast Guard described an intelligence-led operation run jointly with Gujarat's Anti-Terrorism Squad and central intelligence agencies, involving detection, sustained tracking and what it called a hot pursuit before its units boarded the vessel. Shah said the operation ran over 16...

New Delhi has responded after the Turkish president called for dialogue under the UN Charter and other resolutions Image Source: @BharatKaDevansh India on Tuesday rejected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s reference to India's Kashmir at the United Nations General Assembly, saying the issue concerns the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and does not admit intervention by an external party. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said India opposed the “unwarranted references” to the country and the Indian-administered Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir made during Erdoğan’s address in New York. “No external party has any locus standi on this issue,” Jaiswal said at a regular media briefing, using a legal expression meaning that an outside party has no standing in the matter.  Erdoğan raised Kashmir during his September 22 address to the General Assembly, saying disputes in South Asia, including the Kashmir issue, should be addressed through dialog...