Recent World Bank data reveals a significant decline in India’s extreme poverty rate, dropping from 27.1% in 2011-12 to 5.3% in 2022-23, lifting nearly 270 million people out of extreme poverty. This reduction is attributed to updated poverty line definitions and improved household survey data. Free food transfers and a narrowing rural-urban poverty gap also contributed to this progress.

The monument to the Soviet patriarch will be replaced with a flagpole, authorities in Kyrgyzstan say. 

​The monument to the Soviet patriarch will be replaced with a flagpole, authorities in Kyrgyzstan say.  

Pakistan’s aspirations to lead multiple key UN Security Council terrorism-related committees have been largely unmet, securing only the chairship of the 1988 Taliban Sanctions Committee. Other UNSC members rebuffed Pakistan’s demands for leadership roles, leading to delays in committee allocations. India views this outcome as a reflection of Pakistan’s limited standing and credibility within the UN.