New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) India’s economy is projected to expand by 6.4 per cent in 2026 and 6.6 per cent in 2027, a new United Nations (UN) report has said.The report from United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) said that economies in South and South‑West Asia grew 5.4 per cent in 2025, up from 5.2 per cent in 2024, driven largely by India’s strong growth of 7.4 per cent in 2025.The report further stated that robust rural consumption, goods and servic…
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United Nations, April 21 (IANS) Weathering the fallout of the Iran war-induced energy crisis, India will remain the fastest-growing large economy in the Asia Pacific region at 6.4 per cent during the current fiscal year, according to ESCAP, the UN agency for the region’s economy.The report released here on Monday by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, better known by the acronym ESCAP, said India’s real gross domestic product (GDP) growth moderated from 7.4 per cent …
Washington, April 20 (IANS) The wider international community should move beyond treating Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal as a “static fact” managed discreetly by experts behind closed doors. As an instrument used for strategic leverage, Pakistan’s nuclear arms possession demands political consequences, the analysts reckon. According to a report in American magazine ‘The National Interest’, if Pakistan acts as a “rogue state”, the international community should treat it accordingly — with a clear m…
Cape Town, April 19 (IANS) In recent weeks, India has sent 1,000 metric tonnes of rice to drought-stricken Malawi, 1,000 metric tonnes to Burkina Faso, and 500 metric tonnes plus relief supplies, including tents, hygiene kits, and medicines to Mozambique, but will its sole efforts solve the issue, an article in a South African news outlet asked.India’s shipments alone cannot reverse the food crisis in Africa, the South Africa-based Independent Online (IOL) said in a report.However, India’s ges…
United Nations, April 19 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned the attack that killed one French peacekeeper serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and injured three others earlier in the day, his spokesperson said in a statement.”Attacks on peacekeepers must stop. They are grave violations of international humanitarian law and of Security Council Resolution 1701 (2006) and may amount to war crimes,” said the statement, issued by spokesperson …
Madrid, April 19 (IANS) The governments of Brazil, Mexico and Spain expressed deep concern over the grave humanitarian crisis facing the Cuban people and urged necessary measures to ease the situation, according to a joint statement published on the Spanish Foreign Ministry’s website.The three governments on Saturday, also called relevant parties to avoid actions that worsen the living conditions of the population or that violate international law, and pledged to increase, in a coordinated manne…
London, April 18 (IANS) Pakistan’s Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Plan (IFRP) reflects state-led refoulement on an industrial scale, prioritising political expediency over human lives, displacing more than two million Afghan refugees, shattering communities, violating international norms, and deepening Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis, a report highlighted on Saturday. “Pakistan’s Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Plan (IFRP), launched in October 2023, has evolved into one of the world’s…
United Nations, April 18 (IANS) Following the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, thousands of the 1.2 million people displaced in southern Lebanon are returning home despite warnings of unexploded ordnance, UN humanitarians said. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Friday (local time) said its partners reported that displaced families are starting to return to Beirut’s southern suburbs and southern Lebanon, including parts of Nabatieh and Tyre.However, OCHA warned that ri…
United Nations, April 18 (IANS) UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher warned of famine in South Sudan.”The world’s youngest nation stands at a dangerous crossroads. Conflict up. Displacement up. Hunger up. Disease up. Attacks on aid workers up,” Fletcher told the Security Council in a briefing on the situation in South Sudan.Two-thirds of the population in the country needs humanitarian support this year, yet the world body’s humanitari…
United Nations, April 17 (IANS) While expressing concern over the attacks on commercial shipping in the Hormuz Strait, India has taken a neutral stance on the veto by Russia and China of a Security Council resolution demanding that Iran stop attacks.Speaking on Thursday at a General Assembly meeting on the veto, India’s Permanent Representative skirted the issue and said, “We have urged all states to promote dialogue and diplomacy and de-escalation of tensions, and to purposefully address un…