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Pakistan troops repelled a cross-border raid from Afghanistan by hundreds of Pakistan Taliban militants on Wednesday, a senior official said, with extra forces rushed to the rugged frontier region. "They were in hundreds and were armed with light and heavy weapons. We were ready to face the attack and exchange of fire continued for some four hours," Mohammad Ali, deputy commissioner of Chitral district, told AFP.

India is the right country to hold the G20 Presidency, said UK PM Rishi Sunak in an exclusive interview to PTI. "We will work closely with India through its G20 Presidency to address biggest challenges facing world," said Sunak. India assumed the G20 presidency on December 1, 2022. About 200 meetings under different tracks of the bloc will be hosted across the country, culminating in the September 9-10 Summit. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is very much looking forward to attending the G20 Summit in New Delhi in September, UK High Commissioner in India Alex Ellis has said.

Former President Ram Nath Kovind will on Wednesday hold the first official meeting of the "One Nation, One Election" committee at his residence in Delhi, news agency ANI reported citing sources. The Centre had formed an eight-member committee last week to explore the possibility of "One Nation, One Election" which envisages the holding of general election and state Assembly elections simultaneously.

Full curfew has been clamped in all the five valley districts of Manipur as a preventive measure from Tuesday evening, officials said. The cancellation of curfew relaxation hours in Bishnupur, Kakching, Thoubal, Imphal West and Imphal East comes in the wake of the call by the Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI) and its women wing requesting people from all parts of the valley districts to remove an army barricade at Phougakchao Ikhai in Bishnupur district, a few kilometres away from Churachandpur, on Wednesday, officials said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Indonesia to attend the 20th ASEAN-India Summit and the 18th East Asia Summit (EAS) on Wednesday. PM Modi will leave for Indonesia on Wednesday (September 6) evening and will return to New Delhi late in the evening on the following day.

The Delhi government has issued a gazette notification on the traffic restrictions imposed in view of the upcoming G20 summit. According to the gazette notification issued on Monday, all types of goods vehicles, commercial vehicles, inter-state buses and local city buses, such as Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses and Delhi Integrated Multi Modal Transit System (DIMTS) buses, shall not operate on Mathura Road (beyond the Ashram chowk), Bhairon Road, Purana Quila Road and inside the Pragati Maidan tunnel from the intervening night of September 7 and 8 to September 10.

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Punjab BJP expells four BJP leaders

Nimisha Mehta, Dalvinder Singh Dhillon, Kuldeep Singh, and Gurpreet Singh, from Garhshankar, Hoshiarpur for engaging in anti-party activities.

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G20 climate statements 'woefully inadequate': UN climate chief

Statements by G20 ministers ahead of a key summit are 'woefully inadequate' about addressing the climate emergency, the UN's climate change chief told, calling for stronger action from the nations responsible for most planet-heating pollution.

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UK to ban Russia's Wagner Group as 'terrorist' organisation

Britain is to ban Russian mercenary outfit the Wagner Group as a terrorist organisation, media reports said on Tuesday, quoting Home Secretary Suella Braverman. The UK was set to make the Wagner Group a 'proscribed' organisation under anti-terror laws, putting it on a par with Islamic State and al-Qaeda, a report in the Daily Mail said.

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China bans some govt officials from using Apple iPhones

Amid the escalating rivalry between the US and China, the Xi Jinping government has reportedly barred officials from using Apple iPhones at work, the media reported on Wednesday. Beijing has instructed some government staff to stop using iPhones through chat groups or meetings, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Apple relies heavily on Greater China region for both manufacturing and sales of its iPhones and has a major chunk of its product manufacturing in the country amid its future plans to make India the next big manufacturing hub.

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The national capital is all decked up to welcome the delegates for the G20 Summit

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Anti Sabotage check mock drill was conducted ahead of the G20 Summit

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'India brings food safety net programs to forefront even more effectively under G20 presidency'

India on Wednesday said it has brought food safety net programs to the forefront even more effectively under its G20 Presidency and that the agriculture working group has come up with a "historic consensus" on two aspects including millets.

A top official of the Union Agriculture Ministry said it is historic because ever since agriculture working group was formed, food security and nutrition has always been a key priority agenda, but never ever agriculture ministers have come up with a standalone kind of declaration over and above the ministerial communique.

"This is really a historic moment where agriculture ministers have come up together to deliberate on the issue of food security and nutrition.

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One Nation, One Election: Home Minister Shah, Meghwal to meet Kovind

Home Minister Amit Shah and Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal would meet former president and head of the panel on simultaneous polls Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday afternoon, PTI reported citing sources.

On Saturday, the government had notified a high-level committee under Kovind to look into and make recommendations on the issue of holding synchronised polls to the Lok Sabha, state assemblies and local bodies.

While Shah is a member of the committee, Meghwal is a special invitee.

On Sunday, top law ministry officials had briefed Kovind and had sought to know how he would like to go about the mandate of the committee.

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Mayawati urges SC to take suo motu note of 'shallow politics' over Bharat, INDIA

Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to take suo motu cognizance of the "shallow politics" being done on 'Bharat' and 'INDIA' and ban all political bodies carrying the country's name.

Addressing a press conference here, Mayawati said, "Supreme Court should take suo motu cognizance of the shallow politics being done on 'Bharat' and 'INDIA' and ban all organisations, parties, and alliances formed in the name of the country."

The leader made the remark without clarifying whether she wanted ban on bodies formed with 'India' or 'Bharat' in their names.

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PM Modi asks ministers to download 'G20 India app' ahead of summit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday advised all the ministers to download the G20 India mobile app ahead of the G20 summit to be held in New Delhi this week.

The advice came during PM Modi's interaction with the Council of Ministers meeting ahead of the significant G20 summit in New Delhi. The Prime Minister said that the app would help the ministers to interact with foreign delegates seamlessly.

The Ministry of External Affairs in India has launched the mobile application titled 'G20 India', marking a significant digital milestone ahead of the G20 Leaders' Summit to be held in New Delhi. The app offers users a comprehensive, interactive guide to event-related information. Features of the platform include a calendar for the G20 India 2023 event, resources, media, and insightful details about the G20.

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