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G20 Summit 23: PM Modi Holds Bilateral Talks With French President Macron
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G20 Summit 23: PM Modi Holds Bilateral Talks With French President Macron

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday held bilateral talks with French President Emmanuel Macron and said they discussed a series of topics. “A very productive lunch meeting with President Emmanuel Macron. We discussed a series of topics and look forward to ensuring India-France relations scale new heights of progress,” PM Modi said in a post...

Delhi Decked Up To Host World Leaders At G20 Meet
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Delhi Decked Up To Host World Leaders At G20 Meet

Months of preparation, excitement and security arrangements are all set to pay off as India gets ready to host the mega G20 Summit in the national capital this weekend. World leaders have also begun arriving. With less than 12 hours to go until the traffic restrictions kick in, the Delhi Police is gearing up for a hectic...

African Union to join G-20, as Sherpas reach a deal
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African Union to join G-20, as Sherpas reach a deal

The African Union (AU) is set to join the G-20 as negotiators agreed on clearing its membership, according to sources privy to the discussions at the Sherpa meeting at a resort on the outskirts of Delhi. This will mean the 55-member AU will join the European Union as the only two regional bodies in the...

BJP corners AAP on Sanatan Dharma controversy, ‘Kejriwal should clarify his stand on HIV statement’: Virendra Sachdeva
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BJP corners AAP on Sanatan Dharma controversy, ‘Kejriwal should clarify his stand on HIV statement’: Virendra Sachdeva

Controversial statements on Sanatan Dharma (Sanatan Dharma Remark) are not taking the name of stopping all over the country. After Udhayanidhi Stalin, son of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, now DMK MP Andimuthu Raja has described Sanatan Dharma as HIV and leprosy. Since then the politics of Delhi has heated up. Targeting the Aam...

Assets worth $1.8 bn recovered from economic offenders, fugitives: Dr Jitendra Singh
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Assets worth $1.8 bn recovered from economic offenders, fugitives: Dr Jitendra Singh

The assets worth 1.8 billion US dollars have been recovered from economic offenders and fugitives in the last four years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought in the Economic Offenders Act, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh said on...

Delhi sees hottest Sep day in at 15 years
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Delhi sees hottest Sep day in at 15 years

On Monday, Delhi saw its hottest September day in at least 14 years. The maximum temperature on Monday was 40.1 degrees Celsius, six degrees above the normal for this time of the year. This is also the highest maximum temperature recorded in September from at least 2009 onwards, data from the India Meteorological Department (IMD)...

US President Biden all set to travel to India for G20 Summit
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US President Biden all set to travel to India for G20 Summit

US President Joe Biden is all set to visit India and is “very excited” about the important initiatives he will be championing at the G20 Summit in New Delhi, according to senior White House officials. Biden will follow the COVID-19 guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during his visit to India...

G20 Summit: Delhi govt issues notification on traffic restrictions
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G20 Summit: Delhi govt issues notification on traffic restrictions

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...

EAM Jaishankar weighs in on ‘India-Bharat’ debate amid rumours of name change
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EAM Jaishankar weighs in on ‘India-Bharat’ debate amid rumours of name change

External affairs minister S Jaishankar weighed in on the raging ‘India-Bharat’ debate and said Bharat has a connotation that is reflected in India’s Constitution. Rashtrapati Bhawan sending out invitations for a G20 dinner on September 9 on behalf of ‘President of Bharat’ instead of ‘President of India’ fuelled rumours about plans to scrap the official usage of...