Lessons For The World From 2023

One looks upon the coming new year with foreboding as current wars in Ukraine and Gaza spill over and escalate and new ones erupt in incipient fault lines across the world, notes former foreign......

'Prevent misuse of...': India talks tough to Canada at UN

Amid a diplomatic row, India has spearheaded recommendations for Canada to fortify measures preventing attacks on worship places and effectively address hate speech. The proposals were presented......

A Lot At Stake For India In US' Indo-Pacific Strategy

India is increasingly a willing participant in the evolving US' Indo-Pacific strategy.While these developments are related to the perception of a growing Chinese security challenge, their......

'India's done magical work'

'To get a 100 per cent consensus document without any reservation, any bracket, any chair summary is unprecedented in the history of multilateral forums.' IMAGE: Amitabh Kant, India's G20 Sherpa,......

India set to sign climate change treaty on Friday

About 150 countries are expected to sign the agreement in New York on the same day. India will sign the Paris Agreement on climate change on Friday in New York. The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime......

Why is the government reacting in fits and starts to Paris agreement

India promised that 40 per cent of its installed power capacity would come from non-fossil fuel energy resources by 2030 Three months after India committed to an ambitious set of targets under the......

Ban Ki-moon hails climate pact as Earth's 'health insurance'

  Terming the Paris climate change deal as ‘a health insurance policy for the planet’, UN chief Ban Ki-moon called on all nations to turn their commitments on reducing emissions......

Paris and after: India in the world

India can claim that its twin principles of equity and “common but differentiated responsibilities” found their way into the Paris climate change summit’s 31-page text. However,......