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World on pace for significantly more warming without immediate climate action, report warns

October 25, 2024 12:39 am

Under every scenario but the “most optimistic” with the biggest cuts in fossil fuels burning, the chance of curbing warming so it stays within the internationally agreed-upon limit "would be virtually zero," the United Nations Environment Programme's annual Emissions Gap Report said.

UNHRC concerned over violence against minority groups in India, prolonged use of counter-terrorism laws in 'disturbed areas'

July 25, 2024 10:38 pm

On India, while appreciating the measures adopted by it to address discrimination, it called on India to enact comprehensive anti-discrimination laws and implement measures to promote respect for diversity.

India’s population 142.8 crore in 2023, crosses China’s: UN population report

April 20, 2023 8:34 am

The latest report also shows that India's total fertility rate (births per woman in the reproductive age) is estimated at 2.0.

FDI flows to India slip 26% in 2021: UN report

January 20, 2022 11:29 am

The report said developed economies saw the biggest rise by far, with FDI reaching an estimated USD 777 billion in 2021 - three times the exceptionally low level in 2020.

Women under represented in school textbooks, shown mostly in traditional roles: UNESCO report

June 29, 2020 2:29 pm

The report also takes note of the revision of many textbook images to remove gender stereotypes by the Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Production and Curriculum Research in 2019.

UN report: Taliban were in touch with Al Qaeda through talks with US

June 02, 2020 12:42 pm

A report by the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team details that Al Qaeda and Taliban held meetings through 2019 and in early 2020 “to discuss co-operation related to operational planning, training and the provision by the Taliban of safe havens for Al Qaeda members inside Afghanistan.

UN warns India of loss of productivity due to global warming

July 02, 2019 12:35 pm

Because of its large population, India is in absolute terms expected to lose the equivalent of 34 million full-time jobs in 2030 in productivity as a result of heat stress.

India to remain fastest-growing economy in 2019, 2020: UN report

January 23, 2019 8:41 pm

According to the UN's World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) 2019, India's GDP growth is expected to accelerate to 7.6 per cent in 2019-20 from an estimated 7.4 per cent in the current fiscal ending March 2019. The growth rate may come down to 7.4 per cent a year later.

Allowing UN report on Kashmir was failure of govt's foreign policy: Congress

June 23, 2018 9:09 pm

The UN, earlier this month, had released the first-ever report on alleged human rights violation in Kashmir and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and demanded an international probe into it.

India home to one in every three child brides in world: UN report

July 23, 2014 2:09 am

In India, about 27 per cent of women aged between 20 and 49 were married before age 15.

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