External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that India will contribute $500,000 to the United Nations Trust Fund for Counter Terrorism this year to aid capacity-building support to member states in combating terrorism.

• He made this announcement during his keynote address at the plenary session of the UNSC's special meeting of the Counter Terrorism Committee (CTC ) on 'countering the use of new and emerging technologies for terrorist purposes' in New Delhi today.
• India will be making a voluntary contribution of half a million dollars to the UN Trust Fund for Counter Terrorism this year to augment the efforts of Office of Counter-Terrorism in providing capacity-building support to member states in preventing and countering the threat of terrorism.