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9 stories for “State” · September 2026
Clear filtersIndia has been placed on the Strategic Partner Stream of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), announced at the India-FIPIC (Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation) Foreign Ministers' Meeting in New York. Founded in 1971...
External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar co-chaired the L.69 Consultative Ministerial Interaction on United Nations Security Council (UNSC) reform in New York with Saint Lucia's Foreign Minister Alva Baptiste. The L.6...
The 25th Meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Ministers responsible for foreign economic and foreign trade activities was held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Talks covered sustainable growth, trade development, c...
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), in its State of Global Water Resources 2025 report, noted a persistent fall in groundwater in parts of India during 2022–2025, with over-extraction a key cause, meaning withdr...
The United States has included India, China and Pakistan in its FY2027 list of major drug transit or illicit drug-producing countries. Being listed does not by itself imply a failure to curb trafficking, since geography,...
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has launched ATLAS (Atomic Technologies Licensed for Applications at Sea) to advance nuclear energy for civilian shipping and floating nuclear power plants. India, along with...
In Geneva, 128 countries agreed by consensus on a text defining Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) under the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). LAWS can detect, select and engage targets using pre...
The UN General Assembly adopted the "Correct the Map" resolution encouraging world maps that show Africa's true size. It was backed by 164 countries, with the United States voting against and six abstaining. It promotes...
Lahore in Pakistan was declared the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Tourism and Cultural Capital for 2026-27 at the 26th SCO Council of Heads of State meeting in Bishkek. The annually rotating title, introduced i...
