Deciding the quantum and other aspects of climate financing was one of the central aims of this edition of the climate conference, dubbed the 'finance COP' for this reason.
Multiple attempts previously to both define and adopt it have failed. Yalchin Rafiyev, the lead negotiator of COP29 from Azerbaijan, called it a 'game-changing tool'.
PM Modi as well as Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav are unlikely to attend COP29. Leaders from US, China, Japan & Brazil, too, plan to give it a miss.
While Azerbaijan is moving away from traditional arms supplier Russia and growing closer to Turkey & Pakistan, rival Armenia is depening defence ties with India, already a major supplier.
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.
ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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