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Justin Trudeau's G20 visit: Plane troubles, diplomatic tension, & backlash

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's G20 visit to India was marred by a plane troubles, diplomatic tensions, and domestic criticism

G20 Declaration on skill gaps may propel India as global digital talent hub

According to experts, the other significant aspect of the G20 Declaration was committing to work towards creating skills-based migration pathways

TMS Ep518: G20 summit, Shyam Saran on G20, Nifty hits 20k, joint communique

Has the G20 summit set India up for bigger things? What next for India and the G20? Nifty hits 20k: What will be the next pit stop? G20 Summit: What is a joint communique? All answers here

Food security to hydrogen transport: Formats exist for IMEC's success

India's initiatives have already laid some of the groundwork for the proposed infrastructure corridor

G20 is now G21: Africa joins the elite!

The African Union was made a permanent member of the G20, comprising the world's richest and most powerful countries, on Saturday. Watch the video to know more >

G20 Summit: From Biden meet to 'Bharat plaque', here's what has happened so far

World leaders, including US President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Canada's PM Justin Trudeau, are all in India to participate in the G20 Summit. Watch the video to know more >

Efforts on to spruce up areas left out of G20 beautification drive: Atishi

Delhi minister Atishi on Tuesday said officials of various departments are on the ground to take stock of the work needed in areas that did not receive a facelift as part of the G20 beautification drive. The Public Works Department (PWD) minister inspected Press Enclave road in south Delhi on Tuesday morning. Talking to PTI video, she said, "Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal promised the people of Delhi that we will beautify the entire national capital the way we did with several areas during G20." "We held a review meeting and debriefing with all the departments yesterday. Today, all the departments are on the ground and making efforts to achieve the goal," she added. Atishi on Monday said the Delhi government will extend its beautification efforts to all parts of the national capital after G20 designated parts of the city witnessed a facelift for the international summit.

US praises India for G20, hails 'India-Middle East Europe Corridor'

The US lauded India for hosting the G20 summit, calling it a big "success" and hailing the landmark 'India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor' which will usher in a new era of connectivity from Europe to Asia and will stimulate economic growth across the two continents. The G20 Leaders' two-day summit, held under India's presidency, wrapped up on Sunday. On Saturday, the ambitious India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) was jointly announced by the leaders of the US, India, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, France, Germany, Italy and the European Union on the sidelines of the summit in New Delhi. The new economic corridor is seen as an alternative to China's controversial Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). During a regular press briefing on Monday, the US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters," It was a landmark India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) that we believe will usher in a new era of connectivity from Europe to Asia that will

G20 showcased Bharat's technological capabilities, economic strength: MoS

Following the success of 'One Week One Lab' (OWOL) programme, Jitendra Singh proposed the observance of 'One Month One Theme' programme towards integrating the efforts of the various CSIR laboratories

New corridor may drive big gains for rail, infrastructure companies

The plan may add to India's energy security and climate goals, according to experts

3,600 man days invested in G20 Summit information technology infra: RailTel

RailTel, which was entrusted to provide uninterrupted telecom services and cyber security solutions for the G20 Summit, said more than 3,600 mandays were invested to come up with an information technology infrastructure of global standards for the two-day mega event. The IT solution provider under the railways ministry said the integrated telecom network at the 122-acre ITPO campus at Pragati Maidan, particularly at the newly inaugurated summit venue Bharat Mandapam, entailed a massive infrastructure with 1,675 indoor antennas, over 35 kms of radio frequency cable and 25 kms of fibre cables. The summit of the influential grouping was held on September 9 and 10. In a statement, RailTel said that "over 3,600 mandays were invested by RailTel and its partners to establish cutting-edge mobile network infrastructure and a neutral in-building telecom infrastructure...". It added that as part of the project, WiFi infrastructure was strategically placed in outdoor corridors, covering the ..

G20 summit costs Delhi traders $120 mn in revenue dur to partial shutdown

Local reports suggested that the long weekend triggered a travel rush prompting citizens to travel out of the city

G20 Summit: Startup Bridge between India and Saudi Arabia announced

Prince Fahad Bin Mansour Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia stated that Saudi Arabia wanted to keep the momentum of collaboration going while boosting entrepreneurship in both nations

G20 Summit: Coal phase-out pledges fall short in climate commitments

The New Delhi G20 Leaders' Summit was adopted on 9th September 2023, marking the pinnacle of India's presidency. Yet, a consensus on fossil fuel phase-out eluded them. Watch the video to learn more. >

NDMC mulling deploying security guards for assets installed for G20

The NDMC on Monday said it is contemplating to deploy security guards to prevent vandalisation or theft of assets like fountains and sculptures installed ahead of the G20 Summit. Different agencies, including the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), made extensive preparations for the two-day G20 Summit that saw heads of state from across the world gather in the national capital and concluded on Sunday. Road infrastructure was spruced up, roads were adorned with over 7 lakh potted plants and fountains, statues, sculptures and street furniture were installed in area near the summit venue. "We will maintain the assets, including 65 fountains and nearly 20 sculptures, that were installed at prominent locations and roundabouts for the G20 Summit," NDMC vice-chairman Satish Upadhyay said. The civic body also decorated road stretches, roundabouts and other prominent locations with 1 lakh potted plants. Some of these could now be moved to locations like NDMC buildings, health centres and .

Canadian opposition leader mocks Justin Trudeau's G20 visit to India

No one likes to see a Canadian prime minister repeatedly humiliated & trampled upon by the rest of the world, the opposition leader said

Beautification of national capital will continue after G20: Delhi govt

Delhi cabinet ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj on Monday thanked the people of Delhi for making the G20 Summit a success and assured that the beautification of the national capital will continue. Addressing a press conference, Urban Development minister Saurabh Bharadwaj said that the Public Works Department (PWD), Urban Development (UD) and Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will work together to keep the national capital beautiful in future as well. "We want to congratulate the two crore people of Delhi for their cooperation in making the G20 Summit successful. It was with their money collected through taxes that we could beautify Delhi, Bharadwaj said. For three days, people of Delhi had confined themselves to their homes. On some days, they faced traffic jams as well. PWD, MCD, UD and many other departments will work together to make Delhi beautiful in future as well," he said. PWD minister Atishi said people of Delhi said beautification in the city will continue and sa

From laddus, cookies to chaklis, G20 guests get a taste of Bastar's millet

A group in the state's Balod district has started producing Chikki made from millet. It is a part of the Chhattisgarh government's Mahatma Gandhi Rural Industrial Park scheme

G20 leaders stress on achieving universal health coverage, preparedness

G20 leaders have resolved to build more resilient, equitable, sustainable and inclusive health systems to achieve universal health coverage, enhance pandemic preparedness and strengthen existing infectious diseases surveillance systems. The two-day G20 Leaders' Summit, under India's presidency, concluded here on Sunday. In their joint declaration, the leaders stressed on strengthening primary healthcare, health workforce and essential health services to better-than-pre-pandemic levels, ideally within the next two to three years. Besides focusing on epidemics such as tuberculosis and AIDS, the grouping of emerging and developed economies recognised the importance of research on long COVID-19. The G20 leaders committed to improve access to medical countermeasures and facilitate more supplies and production capacities in developing countries to prepare better for future health emergencies. The G20 New Delhi Leaders' Declaration highlighted the need to promote the One Health-based ...

New Delhi declaration sent positive sign to tackle global challenges: China

China on Monday said the G20 New Delhi Leaders' Declaration has sent a positive signal that the member countries of the influential grouping are joining hands in tackling global challenges and economic recovery. India on Saturday pulled off a big diplomatic win after the G20 summit held under its presidency adopted a consensus declaration overcoming major differences on the Russia-Ukraine war, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for ending the "global trust deficit". The declaration released by the G20 summit shows that China's proposition is a good signal, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told a media briefing here in response to a question on how Beijing views the outcome of the G20 summit which concluded on Sunday. Chinese Premier Li Qiang attended the summit, deputising for President Xi Jinping. The declaration also signals that the G20 countries are joining hands in tackling global challenges, sending a positive signal to the world on economic recovery, Mao ..