India should highlight its leadership in low-cost vaccine tech, effective health immunisation delivery, generic pharmaceutical manufacturing, and solar energy.
Participating in first G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting, Sitharaman stressed that it is crucial to address the gaps in global pandemic preparedness.
NbS involve practices like afforestation, forest restoration, conserving coral reefs, which can mitigate effects of climate change and help countries meet their biodiversity goals.
During a talk at the Harvard Kennedy School, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also said that these institutions need to speak for countries that don't get adequate representation.
G20 brings together 19 of the world’s leading economies and the EU, with its members accounting for more than 80% of global GDP, 75% of global trade and 60% of the global population.
Speaking at the first-ever G20 meet on women's empowerment, the Union Minister said India firmly committed to eliminating all forms of violence and discrimination against women.
Jaishankar, who arrived in Italy from Greece on the second leg of this two-nation tour, also met US Secretary of State Blinken and discussed the Indo-Pacific and Afghan situation.
The G-20’s current leadership dynamics are no cause for optimism. However, the upcoming summit is an opportunity to focus minds on the dangers of ongoing inaction.
RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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