Johannesburg: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday called for a profound rethinking of global development parameters and proposed several key initiatives during the opening session of the G20 Leaders' Meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Modi proposed the establishment of a G20 initiative to counter the drug-terror nexus, emphasising the need to combat the trafficking of dangerous substances like fentanyl. He called this effort crucial to weakening what he described as the "wretched drug-terror economy."

Highlighting India's rich cultural heritage, Modi also suggested the creation of a Global Traditional Knowledge Repository under the G20 to preserve "eco-balanced, culturally rich, and socially cohesive ways of living."

“Now is the right moment for us to revisit our development pa

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