International & World News – 21 August 2025

Dr. S. Jaishankar

✈ INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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1. India has sharply rebuked Pakistan at the UN Security Council, accusing it of continuing a pattern of sexual violence that began during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. India’s Permanent Mission’s Charge d’Affaires Eldos Mathew Punnoose said, Pakistan army’s mass sexual violence in 1971, affecting an estimated four lakh women, remain a shameful record and similar atrocities continue today with impunity.

2. Russia has lauded India’s stature as a global power and called it a leading economic power with diversified foreign policy.

3. External Affairs Minister, Dr. S. Jaishankar to co-chair Inter-Governmental Commission with Russia in Moscow; he also to address India-Russia Business Forum meeting.

4. Noida-based IG drones has successfully conducted trials of its striker FPV drone with the Indian army at the Indo-China border.

5. The Russian embassy has slammed Donald Trump’s 25% additional tariffs on India and said that if Indian goods cannot go to US market, they can head to Russia.

US President Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro has slammed India’s Russian oil imports as opportunistic and warned that India must act like a strategic partner of the US.
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🌎 WORLD NEWS 🌍
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1. The 30th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is scheduled for November 2025 in Belem, Brazil.

2. In Afghanistan, at least 79 people have been killed in a road accident in Herat province.

3. Dubai has launched the “One Freezone Passport”, a unified licensing system enabling companies to operate across all of the emirate’s free zones under a single license. The reform, unveiled by the Dubai Free Zones Council, is expected to significantly lower costs, reduce bureaucracy, and accelerate business expansion.

4. A Finnish lawmaker Eemeli Peltonen, 30, a member of parliament from Finland’s Social Democratic Party, on Tuesday allegedly died by suicide inside Helsinki’s Parliament House.

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