The report released on Tuesday said that in contrast to large swathes of the developing countries, “investment in South Asia, particularly in India, remains strong”.
The unanimity at the UN underscores the fears over AI’s potential to disrupt politics and society through deep fakes and spreading misinformation, and its more sinister capabilities in warfare, development of weapons and disrupting economies.
The Pakistani representative also introduced a strange element into the discussion, attacking the Council’s designation of international terrorists, claiming that the Council’s actions against terrorists are “arbitrary”.
China has repeatedly blocked the listing of Pakistan-linked terrorists as international terrorists subject to UN sanctions.
Bangladesh, India, Pakistan are among the top ten countries in the world responsible for the extraction of most groundwater, a report by the United Nations said, while raising sustainability concerns over the fast depletion of groundwater in various regions, including in South Asia
The 12-member board will be supported in its work by the Centre for Policy Research of the United Nations University in close coordination with the Executive Office of the Secretary-General
'Afghanistan is a tough place to be a child, there are huge challenges right now in being a child,' Sam Mort, UNICEF’s communication chief, was quoted as saying
The mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has been renewed by the UN Security Council (UNSC) for the next 12 months, tasking it with a robust set of priorities ranging from coordinating humanitarian aid delivery, to monitor human rights situations, and facilitating dialogue
Afghans today are facing a food insecurity and malnutrition crisis of “unparalleled proportions”, warned a UN official, as a staggering 95 percent of Afghans don’t have enough food to eat, warning, “the fate of an entire generation of Afghans is at stake.”
Tirumurti said that followers of non-Abrahamic faiths, including Hinduism with 1.2 billion followers, Buddhism with more than 535 million and Sikhism with than 30 million, were facing bigotry
Saying that the "war goes far beyond Ukraine", United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that “a sword of Damocles hangs over the global economy” and developing countries are most at risk
India, which has “resolutely fought the battle against terrorism for many decades”, has introduced every year since 2002 a resolution in the General Assembly on “measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction”, he said
With 1.3 million women elected to various tiers of governance and leading decision-making at the grassroots level, India offers the template for their empowerment, according to a top Indian diplomat
The question of veto powers has come to the fore in recent days because of Russia, which has invaded Ukraine, vetoing in the Council any criticism of it for violating the UN Charter and demands that withdraw its troops
India has regretted that despite appeals to Russia and Ukraine a safe corridor has not been set up for a few hundred students trapped in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy even as nearly 20,000 Indians, mostly medical students, have been evacuated on more than 80 flights
The United Nations Security Council has condemned the terrorist bombing that killed 62 people at a Shia mosque in Peshawar, in northwest Pakistan, for which the Islamic State Khorasan (ISIL-K) has accepted blame
India has reiterated its call to Sri Lanka to fulfill its commitments to “protecting the interests of Tamils” by "conducting provincial council elections" and "meaningful power devolution" under the 13th Amendment of the Sri Lankan Consitution, a step, New Delhi said, is in the country’s own interest
After a Russian attack on a nuclear facility in Ukraine, India said it attaches “highest importance” to ensuring the safety of its own atomic plants
India's Pujani was exercising the right of reply in Geneva to Pakistan Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari's statement at the High-Level Segment of the Council's 49th session
