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  India's population touches 1.46 billion, fertility drops below replacement rate: UN report

  India | June 10, 2025 21:30 IST

  UNFPA's 2025 State of World Population (SOWP) Report, The Real Fertility Crisis, calls for a shift from panic over falling fertility to addressing unmet reproductive goals. Millions of people are not able to realise their real fertility goals, it asserts.

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  India shines as fastest growing major economy with 6.3 % growth projection in 2025: UN report

  India | May 16, 2025 22:18 IST

  India’s capital markets have played a pivotal role in channeling domestic savings into investment. As of December 2024, the stock market reached record highs, outperforming many other emerging markets despite global and domestic headwinds.

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  UN report: ISIL planned large-scale attacks in India, foiled by Modi govt vigilance

  World | February 16, 2025 19:20 IST

  The UN report reveals that the Islamic State attempted large-scale attacks in India but failed due to government vigilance, resorting instead to inciting lone-wolf attacks.

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  140 women and girls were killed by partner or relative per day in 2023: Shocking UN report reveals

  World | November 26, 2024 18:45 IST

  The UN report reveals that Africa recorded the highest number of intimate partner and family-related killings in 2023, with an estimated 21,700 victims. It also had the highest victim rate relative to its population size.

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  ​India rejects 'unwarranted, misleading' comments of UN experts on Manipur

  World | September 05, 2023 9:41 IST

  India’s response came after a UN expert group flagged the reports of “serious human rights violations and abuses” in Manipur. The UN experts had said they were “appalled" by the reports and images of gender-based violence targeting hundreds of women and girls of all ages.

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  Al-Qaeda shaping regional affiliate in Indian subcontinent to spread operations into J-K: UN report

  World | July 27, 2023 21:09 IST

  The 32nd report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team of the 1267 ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council, released this week, noted that “one Member State assessed that Al-Qaeda is shaping AQIS (Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent).

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  India removed from UNGA report on children and armed conflict for the first time since 2010

  World | June 29, 2023 15:41 IST

  India was mentioned in the UNGA report for over a decade, along with countries like Pakistan, Burkina Faso, Nigeria and the Philippines, since 2010 for alleged recruitment and use of boys by armed groups in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

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  UN report reveals 26% of world population lacks clean drinking water, 46% sanitation

  World | March 22, 2023 12:48 IST

  The report gives a clear picture that the gap needs to be filled to meet UN goals to ensure all people have access to clean water and sanitation by 2030.

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  UN report warns of global water crisis amid climate change

  World | October 05, 2021 23:48 IST

  Much of the world is unprepared for the floods, hurricanes, and droughts expected to worsen with climate change and urgently needs better warning systems to avert water-related disasters

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  6,35,000 people displaced in Afghanistan this year: UN

  World | September 21, 2021 8:22 IST

  The office said the UN Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration handed out relief to more than 9,300 people displaced by the violence in Kunar Province.

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  Al-Qaeda operates under Taliban protection: UN report

  World | July 24, 2021 21:04 IST

  The report said that the group has strengthened its positions in and around Kabul, where it conducts most of its attacks, targeting minorities, activists, government employees and personnel of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces.

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  Despite COVID-19 lockdowns, world heads to temperature rise: UN report

  World | December 09, 2020 21:39 IST

  A green pandemic recovery could cut upto 25 per cent off predicted 2030 greenhouse gas emissions and bring the world closer to meeting the two degree celsius goal of the Paris Agreement on climate change, said a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report on Wednesday.

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  Pakistanis head terror groups ISIL-K, AQIS, TTP not yet blacklisted, reveals UN report

  World | July 26, 2020 12:19 IST

  Pakistani terror groups such as al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant - Khorasan and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan among others are yet to be blacklisted as revealed by a UN report.

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  Between 6,000-6,500 Pakistani terrorists in Afghanistan: UN report

  World | July 25, 2020 13:09 IST

  An estimated 6,000-6,500 Pakistani terrorists are in neighbouring Afghanistan, most of them with the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, posing a threat to both the countries, a UN report has said

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  ‘Significant numbers’ of ISIS terrorists in Kerala, Karnataka: UN report

  World | July 25, 2020 13:05 IST

  According to the report, “One member state reported that the ISIL Indian affiliate (Hind Wilayah), which was announced on May 10, 2019, has between 180 and 200 members”.

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  Woman journalists denied fair share, often assigned soft beats in India: UN report

  India | August 02, 2019 21:25 IST

  None of the sampled newspapers, seven Hindi and six English, had a female boss. The 13 newspapers were selected on the basis of their position in the Indian Readership Survey 2018, according to the report. The UN body could not avail data from Navbharat Times and Dainik Bhaskar.  

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  In just 8 years, India will overtake China as world’s most populous country: United Nations report

  India | June 18, 2019 9:19 IST

  The report also confirmed that the world's population is growing older due to increasing life expectancy and falling fertility levels, and that the number of countries experiencing a reduction in population size is growing.

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  Malnutrition threatens health more than malaria, tuberculosis, measles: UN report

  World | November 09, 2018 13:28 IST

  UN urged policymakers to reduce food loss and waste to improve access to nutritious and healthy food as it concluded that regularly eating poor-quality food has become a greater public health threat than malaria, tuberculosis or measles.

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  UN report: India lost Rs 6 lakh crore to natural disasters in 20 years

  India | October 11, 2018 9:58 IST

  During the 20-year period (from 1998 to 2017), India was one of the top five countries to have reported absolute economic losses.

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  UN report on global warming carries life-or-death warning

  World | October 08, 2018 9:37 IST

  The Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its gloomy report at a meeting in Incheon, South Korea.