India, Nov. 23 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday outlined India's vision for six new G20-led initiatives, including a global effort to dismantle the drug-terror nexus, a healthcare rapid response team, a traditional knowledge repository, an open satellite data partnership, and a critical minerals circularity initiative while calling for a fundamental rethinking of global development parameters at what was the first G20 Summit on African soil.

Speaking at the opening session focused on inclusive and sustainable growth, Modi framed his proposals within a vision of "Integral Humanism" - viewing the individual, society and nature as an integrated whole - and emphasised that Africa, as "one of the greatest sufferers" of conventional...