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Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan and its impact on the globe. ~Preet The World Bank has authorised a plan to utilise USD 1 billion from a frozen Afghanistan trust fund for education, agriculture, health, and family programmes in order to alleviate the country's deteriorating humanitarian and economic difficulties.  The goal is to protect the vulnerable, aid in the preservation of human capital and critical economic and social institutions, and to limit the need for future humanitarian assistance. Previously, India hosted the Delhi Regional Security Dialogue on Afghanistan. An unstable Afghanistan has far-reaching consequences not only for the region, but also for the whole world. Afghanistan has been chaotic and unsafe for decades, but the Taliban's takeover of power in August 2021 has left the whole area on the verge of collapse.  Afghanistan's current position is unsettlingly similar to the geopolitical landscape of the late 1990s.  The Taliban took control in 1996, but
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All about the World Sustainable Development Summit 2022. ~Preet. The Prime Minister recently spoke at the World Sustainable Development Summit of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). TERI's yearly flagship event is the World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS). Previously, it was known as the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit. In 200, it was established. It is the only global summit taking place in the developing countries. It has been envisioned as a unified platform for accelerating action on sustainable development and climate change. Its goal is to bring together global leaders and intellectuals in the domains of sustainable development, energy, and the environment on a single platform. TERI is a non-profit research organisation. It performs research for India and the Global South in the sectors of energy, ecology, and sustainable development. The Tata Energy Research Institute was founded in 1974 and renamed The Energy Resources Institute in 2003. India has kept its