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Delhi summit offers a salute to nari shakti

The G20 Delhi summit prioritized women-led development and made robust commitments to gender equality

Inspired by Chandrayaan-3, we could refer to six touchdown points of Delhi G20 on nari shakti. (File Photo)
Published on Sep 14, 2023 10:06 PM IST

A historic leap to advance India’s G20 women agenda

A dozen outcomes of the summits need to be harvested and built upon. India could launch impact-making G20 women lighthouse projects.

The G20’s overarching priority of economic and financial management and resource mobilisation for global good – including crisis response which was the raison d’etre of the G20 – must also be gender responsive. (Shutterstock)
Updated on Apr 01, 2023 12:53 PM IST
ByLakshmi Puri

Global human solidarity is the only way forward

Emerging powers such as India are important pillars of multilateralism and have tried to influence and reform the institutions and rules of the game towards more equity and public good decisions

For 75 years, multilateralism has ebbed and crested in the four projects of humanity: Sustainable development, peace and security, human rights, and humanitarian action. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Updated on Dec 21, 2021 08:18 PM IST
ByLakshmi Puri

The significance of PM Modi’s visit to the US

PM Modi’s extraordinarily warm meeting with Biden — including a “Mo-Jo” hug — evoked affinity. It was preceded by a remarkable “connect” and meeting with vice-president Kamala Harris, in which PM Modi described the US and India as “natural partners”.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden, Washington, US, September 24, 2021 (REUTERS)
Updated on Oct 01, 2021 03:33 PM IST
ByLakshmi Puri

Afghanistan: Don’t sacrifice women’s rights at the altar of geopolitics

Because women’s rights have been systematically violated and women have been excluded from governance, peace and nation-building, conflict has become endemic

Afghan women hold placards during a demonstration demanding better rights for women in front of the former ministry of women affairs in Kabul on September 19. (AFP)
Updated on Sep 20, 2021 07:56 PM IST
ByLakshmi Puri

Support and empower India’s migrant workers

Targeted and ecosystem support for migrant workers is a major thrust of the Atmanirbhar Bharat package.

Migrant workers cover their children with saris to protect them from heat as they wait to get on a bus to reach a railway station to board a train to their home state of Bihar, Ahmedabad, May 20, 2020(REUTERS)
Updated on May 23, 2020 10:22 PM IST
ByLakshmi Puri
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