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How India’s experience reflects on women’s evolving role in peacekeeping

December 15, 2025 12:12 pm

How does India’s experience offer a constructive lens for understanding how women’s participation can evolve toward meaningful engagement, institutional reform, and the transformative potential of peacekeeping?

UPSC Essentials | Mains answer practice — GS 2 (Week 92)

UPSC Essentials | Mains answer practice — GS 2: Questions on UN peacekeeping forces and India-European Union partnership (Week 92)

March 08, 2025 6:14 pm

Are you preparing for UPSC CSE 2025? Here are questions from GS paper 2 for this week with essential points as the fodder for your answers. Do not miss points to ponder and answer in the comment box below.

UPSC Essentials | Daily subject-wise quiz : International Relations (Week 99)

UPSC Essentials | Daily subject-wise quiz : International Relations MCQs on UN Peacekeeping missions, Gold Card visa program and more (Week 99)

March 06, 2025 12:10 pm

Are you preparing for UPSC CSE Prelims 2025? Check your progress and revise your topics through this quiz on International Relations.

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India calls for UNSC meeting after attack on Indian and Moroccan peacekeepers in Congo

July 28, 2022 10:27 pm

Hours after the attack, India, currently a non-permanent member of the Security Council, called for a meeting of the Council under ‘Any Other Business' to discuss the situation.

Friends and relatives proud of two Indian peacekeepers killed in Congo

July 29, 2022 6:38 am

Deployed at Butembo since June 2, 2022, the peacekeepers were among five people killed during an anti-United Nations protest in Congo’s eastern city of Goma near the Uganda border.

Six women cops from Chandigarh make it to 2019 United Nations Peacekeeping Mission

April 05, 2019 8:20 am

A total of 13 Chandigarh police personnel, including seven male cops, appeared before the selection board, but only women candidates managed to clear the tough test. The test was held in September 2018. The seven men included two inspector rank officers.