Economic
China outlines plan to make Fujian a zone for development with Taiwan
China disclosed on Sept 12 more details of its plan to make southeastern Fujian province a zone for integrated development with Taiwan, including financial market...
Contents
I. India and the UN
Way forward on the IGN on UN reforms
India helps LLDCs with disaster risk reduction
II. India’s G20 Presidency
2nd Culture Working Group meeting held
Second G20 TIWG Meeting held
III. Multilateral Institutions...
Economic
Nations where 3.3 bn live spend more on debt than health, schools
Approximately 3.3 billion people – almost half of humanity – now live in countries that spend more money paying interest on their debts than on education or health, according...
The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organised a virtual India-Japan-South Korea Trilateral Dialogue on the topic “India-Japan-South Korea: Promoting Peace, Prosperity and Stability in the Indo-Pacific Region” on June 15, 2023. The partner...
Afghanistan
Pakistan Permits Barter Trade With Russia, Iran And Afghanistan – Republic World
In a bid to ease the mounting pressure on its fast-depleting foreign reserves, cash-starved Pakistan has announced a barter trade agreement with Russia,...
Afghanistan
How a Covert Relationship With the Taliban Backfired for US Ally Pakistan – Bloomberg
About two weeks after the Taliban retook Afghanistan in 2021, the then head of Pakistan’s spy agency arrived at one of Kabul’s plushest hotels,...
Afghanistan
U.N. urges Afghanistan's Taliban to reverse bans on women – The Hindu
The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Thursday calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to swiftly reverse their increasingly harsh...
DEFENCE
Defence exports reach an all-time high of Rs 16,000 crore in financial year 2022-23.
Prime Minister reviews operational readiness of the Armed Forces during Combined Commanders’ Conference in Bhopal.
General Manoj Pande proceeded on a...
Afghanistan
US watchdog ‘cannot assure’ Afghanistan aid not going to Taliban - Aljazeera
The head of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has decried a lack of transparency from United States agencies that he said has...
Afghanistan
China Spells Out Its Position on Afghanistan – Tolo News
The embassy of China in Kabul shed light on 11 points that clarified the country’s position regarding Afghanistan. The point first, the embassy said in a statement, was that China...