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G20 Summit: Delhi airport to have dedicated corridor for delegates

Delhi airport will have dedicated gates and a dedicated corridor to ensure seamless immigration clearance for G20 delegates, and a team of senior officials will monitor arrival and departure operations related to the summit. Ahead of the G20 Summit, which will be held in the national capital on September 9 and 10, Delhi airport operator DIAL on Wednesday said there are a required number of parking slots for VVIP aircraft, and that most of the guests for the summit will be coming by chartered flights or special VIP flights. "While many of the guests will be arriving at Air Force Station on the Palam side, there are many other heads of states as well as other delegation members who are going to come at Terminal-3. We have made special arrangements for them," DIAL CEO Videh Kumar Jaipuriar said in a message. There will be dedicated gates and a dedicated corridor for the G20 delegates so that they can clear the immigration and customs in a seamless manner, he added. He also said there

Xi's 'one mountain, two tigers' diplomatic puzzle

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India's G20 positioning as voice for emerging economies a success: US

India-US relations will get a further boost with President Joe Biden's visit to New Delhi for the G20 Summit under India's presidency, a senior US official said here on Wednesday, underlining that the high-profile meeting comes against the backdrop of the country's successful positioning as the voice for the emerging economies. Margaret MacLeod, Hindustani Spokesperson for the US Department of State, told PTI in an interview at the US Embassy in London ahead of her visit to New Delhi this week that the US is hopeful that sufficient common ground could be found at the conclusion of the G20 Summit. The US State Department also welcomed India stepping up with its chairman statements during the course of the G20 presidency to reflect a broad majority of views. We believe the G20 is a really good platform where the world's major countries can get together for a dialogue, said MacLeod, during the Hindi interview. The member countries represent 85 per cent of global GDP which makes the ...

G20 aims to triple renewables by 2030, gives caveat to fossil fuels

A spokesperson for India's renewable energy ministry declined to comment on the talks

Delhi's schools, colleges, offices to remain closed from Sept 8-10 for G20

Delhi Minister Atishi on Wednesday announced that all schools, colleges and offices will remain closed across the city from September 8-10 in view of the G20 Leaders Summit over the weekend

G20: Air India, Vistara announce waivers for ticket holders from 7-11 Sept

A spokesperson for Delhi airport said it has also formed a team of senior officials who will monitor G20 arrival and departure operations to ensure the best experience for the arriving delegates

Ahead of G20 Summit, Delhi Airport gears up to welcome world leaders

Three ceremonial lounges have been prepared to receive the heads of state the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA)

Xi Jinping's protege steps onto world stage after China leader's G-20 snub

Li will likely follow Xi's instructions as he maintains China's presence at the table at the G-20, said Sun Yun, a senior fellow and director of the China Program

India's gift to G20: Leveraging 'soft power and civilisational heritage'

Whether it's Punjab's Phulkari embroidery, West Bengal's Kantha stitchwork, or Madhubani painting from Bihar, G20 nations' leaders, delegates attending summit will be able to purchase many such items

Ahead of G20 summit, India dodges mixing human rights with climate agenda

Combining the two issues may make finding consensus in the group's final communique difficult

No middle ground

Xi's decision to skip the G20 summit is a lose-lose

As G20 leader how India is ensuring quality of traditional medicine systems

Popular acceptance of Ayush is due to increased awareness and scientific validation, writes Sarbananda Sonowal

CBDC can fix cross-border payment problems: RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das

RBI governor flags issues of high cost, low speed, limited access

G20 Sherpas focus on building consensus to finalise draft declaration

With just four days left for the G20 Summit, top negotiators from the member nations of the bloc on Monday held extensive negotiations to build consensus on a number of crucial issues with an aim to finalise the draft leaders' declaration for the conclave. The G20 Sherpas primarily focused on having a globally acceptable governance framework for digital public infrastructure, steps for ensuring women-led development, climate financing and ways to strengthen multilateral development banks (MDBs), people familiar with the matter said. The three-day Sherpa meeting is taking place at ITC Grand Bharat hotel in Haryana's Nuh district. The meeting is being chaired by India's G-20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant. China has reservations on various aspects of these agenda items resulting in difficulties in building consensus, the people cited above said. The G20 operates under the principle of consensus and any divergent view by any one member country can create hurdles. India is hosting the G20 Summit

G20 Summit: Sculpture of Lord Ganesha unveiled as part of beautification

People travelling from the Delhi airport will be able to see a life-size sculpture of Lord Ganesha that was unveiled here on Monday by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Lt Governor V K Saxena as part of the beautification work for the G20 Summit, Raj Niwas officials said. Gadkari appreciated the efforts to beautify the tri-junction in front of the Dhaula Kuan Metro Station on NH-48 which is crossed by lakhs of travellers every day and said it was an appropriate location for installing the sculpture. He congratulated the workers, officers and all others involved in the upgradation of the stretch of the road from Dhaula Kuan to IGI Airport. Named 'Vighnaharta' The sculpture will be visible to travellers to and from the IGI Airport, Gurgaon, Janakpuri, Delhi Cantonment and Dwarka. "Undertaken as a part of the larger exercise of beautifying and aesthetically upgrading the city in the run-up to the G-20 Summit, this life-size sculpture of 117x54x32 inch dimension has been sculpted by not

G20 Summit: Online delivery except for medicines to be barred in New Delhi

All online delivery services, except medicines, will be barred in the New Delhi district during the G20 Summit, the Delhi Police said on Monday. Special Commissioner of Police (Traffic) SS Yadav said during a press conference that there are no changes in the traffic advisory issued by the police on August 25. "Essential services such as postal and medical services, sample collections by path labs will be allowed throughout Delhi. In the New Delhi area, commercial activities will not be allowed. Online delivery services will not be allowed but medicine delivery will be allowed," he said. Valid permissions granted for essential services will be "honoured", he added. The senior officer also shared that barring at the Supreme Court station, metro services will not be affected. "There might be closure of gates for 10-15 minutes at stations due to VIP movement and security restrictions. But apart from at Pragati Maidan (Supreme Court), metro services will not be affected at other statio

Ahead of G20 Summit in Delhi, PWD to conduct dry run from September 1-7

As New Delhi gears to hold the G20 Summit from September 9-10, here are the latest updates

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Key govt functionaries visit G20 sites to take stock of preparedness

Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena and the prime minister's Principal Secretary P K Mishra were among the senior government functionaries who on Sunday visited key sites related to the upcoming G20 Summit meeting to take stock of preparedness for the mega event. Officials said they travelled by two mini-buses for the site visit to minimise inconvenience to the public. They visited Bharat Mandapam, the convention centre that will host key G20 meetings, the Palam technical area and some of the roundabouts in the area through which the foreign delegates will be travelling, officials said.