India has supplied more vaccines against COVID-19 to people around the world than has vaccinated its own citizens, according to India's Deputy Permanent Representative K. Nagaraj Naidu
India is Europe’s Energy Shock Absorber: Its Refineries are at Heart of Global Energy Stability
India is not merely a buyer of cheap oil from Russia or an exporter of refined fuels to Europe. India is a system stabiliser, ensuring the flow of oil in the world market in the context of economic necessity as well as geopolitical compulsions. India ranks among the top five refining nations globally.
How European Green Laws Are Reshaping Regional Trade and Industrial Development
European green laws represent a major shift in the relationship between trade and environmental sustainability. For South Asia, they create both risks and opportunities. While compliance costs and market access challenges are real, these regulations can also accelerate the region's transition towards greener and more resilient economic development. The long-term success of South Asian economies will depend on their ability to integrate sustainability into industrial growth strategies while ensuring that environmental goals complement, rather than hinder, broader development objectives.
Of Judges, Protesters and Cockroaches: The Household Pest's Little-Known Role in Maintaining a Sustainable Planet
India's Gen Z seeks opportunity, purpose and impact. The cockroach's greatest lesson is not survival but service—quietly sustaining ecosystems through recycling, resilience and adaptation. As young people lead the journey towards sustainability and Net Zero, the question is not whether they are cockroaches, but whether they will learn from them.
India’s Fast Breeder Reactor Success Strengthens Energy Security Vision
India maintains a separation between civilian and military nuclear programmes and remains outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Consequently, the PFBR is not under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards.
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Empowering women in peace operations remains top priority, says UN peacekeeping chief
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UN committee draws up code for child rights in digital world
Over 30 years after the invention of the world wide web, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has laid out the ways that young people and children should be treated in the digital world, and how their rights should be protected
UN rights body starts monitoring Sri Lanka
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has started monitoring the human rights situation in Sri Lanka, a day after the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on the country
UN teams assisting tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees after massive fire
United Nations humanitarian personnel are on the ground evacuating tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees, after a devastating fire tore through the Kutupalong camp, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, the world’s largest refugee camp
Caring PIA crew member awarded by UN
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India, Nepal abstain from voting on UNHRC resolution against Sri Lanka: Pakistan, Bangladesh, China vote against
Caught between political compulsions and diplomatic obligations, India abstained from voting on a UNHRC resolution critical of the Sri Lankan government and calls for the promotion of reconciliation, accountability, and human rights, along with some strong punitive measures
Sri Lanka lobbying with Islamic nations for support in UNHRC
The Sri Lankan government has stepped up its diplomatic efforts and is reportedly reaching out to Muslim nations to ward off a critical resolution that would put to vote on Tuesday in the ongoing 46th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council
Bangladesh, Pakistan figure higher than India in World Happiness Report
The World Happiness Report 2021 released by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network ranked Pakistan higher than India
Transborder management of water key to sustainable development: Pakistan to UN
Pakistan has told the United Nations that the transborder management of water is the key to sustainable development goals
Tough road ahead for Sri Lanka; 40 nations co-sponsor UNHRC resolution
Forty nations, mostly European countries, have either become co-sponsors or additional sponsors of the pending UNHRC resolution over what it sees as deteriorating human rights conditions in Sri Lanka, reported The Daily Mirror
UN team to visit new site for Rohingya relocation in Bangladesh
A delegation of the United Nations will visit Bhasan Char island- the new site that the Bangladesh government has developed for the relocation of around 100,000 Rohingya refugees- in Bangladesh for assessing the facilities there
United Nations to adopt ecosystem accounting
In a historic step that may reshape decision and policy-making towards sustainable development, the United Nations adopted a new framework on Thursday that includes the contributions of nature when measuring economic prosperity and human well-being
‘Everyone’s looking to India’: India's vaccine leadership, recovering growth, help world overcome pandemic: IMF chief economist
As India recovers from the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, its leadership in vaccine production and its growth projection of 11.5 per cent will have an important role in helping the world overcome the pandemic, Gita Gopinath, the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Monday
Bangladesh's per capita food wastage most, India the least in South Asia
A Bangladeshi annually wastes 65 kg of food, finds a report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), a Nairobi-based organization
