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G20 Leaders' Summit will be held virtually on November 21-22 amid Covid

This year's G20 leaders summit under the theme of "Realising opportunities of the 21st century for all" will be held in an online format amid the coronavirus pandemic

G20 Trade and Investment Working Group virtual meeting begins today

The third meeting of the G20 Trade and Investment Working Group (TIWG) is set to begin on Sunday, with the two-day event being held via video conference amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.The TIWG was established under the Chinese G20 presidency in 2016 and has been carried on since.The G20 is continuing to hold most events remotely as the coronavirus disease pandemic continues. The Saudi Arabian presidency will culminate in mid-November with the Leaders' Summit, which according to the group's agenda, is still on course to be held in Riyadh.

UN Secy-General calls for concerted action by G20 in combating Covid-19

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on the G20 countries to take concerted action to combat the Covid-19 pandemic and build back better

Ravi Shankar Prasad to address G20 Digital Minister's meeting today

Union Minister of Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad is scheduled to address the G20 Digital Minister's meeting

Ravi Shankar Prasad to address meeting of G20 Digital ministers today

Union Minister of Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad is scheduled to address the G20 Digital Ministers' meeting on Wednesday

A multilateral solution

Create joint norms on digital taxation with other jurisdictions

Govt regulations shouldn't become permanent after Covid-19 ends: B20

A report by the B20, which represents private industry across member nations also pushed for less restrictions on exports, migration

Covid-19 crisis: Pakistan to avail of Rs 335-bn debt relief from G20

Pakistan will sign its debt relief agreement with G20 countries separately before the December 31 deadline to avail of the debt relief to mitigate the negative effects of the pandemic

G20 countries pledge over $21 billion to fund fight Covid-19 pandemic

The announcement comes after the G20 countries injected more than USD5 trillion into the global economy in late March

Best of BS Opinion: Problem of tax buoyancy, one year of Modi 2.0, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Asia needs India for post-Covid cooperation

India's pivotal position in South Asia, its strong economic ties with ASEAN+6 countries and its presence in the G20 make its participation critical

The economic crisis and India's role in post-coronavirus multilateralism

The world gross domestic product is expected to contract by 3%, international trade may decline by up to 32%, and 49 million people could slip into extreme poverty

India provided medical supplies to 120 nations to fight Covid-19: Goyal

Goyal participated during the second G20 Virtual Trade and Investment Ministers Meeting

Ending opportunism

Govt right to crack down on strategic investments from China

New multilateralism with old paradigms?

The biggest armies and the biggest economies failed against a microscopic virus - the weakest link undid decades of progress

Time for Int'l community to build new tax regime embracing digitization: FM

The finance minister emphasised on the need for a closer collaboration between revenue agencies to investigate tax affairs of offenders who cross-borders for escaping tax investigation, a tweet said

Tougher bank rules since 2008 have not stifled lending: G20 watchdog

Banks are the main source of funding for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), especially in Europe, and they have long warned that overly burdensome rules would crimp lending

G20 finance ministers likely to back OECD's digital tax proposal

OECD will present its "unified approach" to a digital tax at a G20 gathering on the sidelines of annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank

The world is still shaped by the West

From the Indian point of view, looking ahead, our sense is the theories of the decline of the West are grossly overstated

India to make G20 pitch for taxing digital giants like Google, Facebook

The G20 ministerial will be a step towards building a political consensus to finalise a solution to tax digital economies by 2020 under OECD's BEPS framework