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G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant flags off Run Blue initiative by Mina Guli

India's G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant on Sunday flagged off the 5-city India chapter of the Run Blue initiative of water advocate Mina Guli

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw unveils digital innovation alliance for G20

The minister also launched "stay safe online" campaign, with the aim of digitally transforming the global economy in a secure cyber environment

Milking G20 for election: Congress questions govt for delaying presidency

The Congress on Sunday attacked the Union government over its G20 "blitz', accusing it for using the grouping's presidency for election purpose

5 Ellora caves to be illuminated with LED lights ahead of G20-related event

Five caves at the Ellora world heritage site in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district will be illuminated with LED lights and the Archaeological Survey of India will try to complete the work before the city hosts a G20-related event, a senior ASI official has said. The 'first inception meet' of Women 20 (W20) as part of India's presidency of G20 will be held in the city on February 13-14, 2023. The Women 20, an official G20 engagement group, was set up in 2015 to ensure gender considerations figure in G20 discussions. The ASI has already put up lights in various Ajanta caves for visitors to see the paintings made there between 400 and 650 CE, an official said on Wednesday. ASI's superintendent archaeologist Milan Kumar Chauley told PTI that they will also illuminate the inside portions of Ellora cave numbers 5, 10, 16, 29 and 32 which have paintings and sculptures. Chauley said they will try to finish the work before the G20-related event in Aurangabad in February next year. "The lig

India to set G20 agenda amid global challenges including Ukraine war

Global challenges including the war in Ukraine as well as the serious concerns posed by the aftermath of the pandemic are aspects that India's presidency predominantly would be focusing upon

Not good for govt to share aggregated data: G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant

India's G-20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant on Tuesday pitched for the dissemination of data by the government in a granular form and said that sharing aggregated information is "not good". Addressing the G-20 development working group meeting here, Kant said data is a key aspect to help any country meet her developmental goals and added that India has benefitted from the same. Stressing on the importance of ensuring quality of data, the former civil servant who till recently worked as the chief executive of the government think-tank Niti Aayog made the reference to data aggregation practices by the government. "Government data are provided as aggregates, which is not good. We should break down the aggregation," Kant said. He said many a time, the quality of the data is also very poor and "we need to ensure that the data is de-cluttered, presented in a simplistic way and it is not difficult to navigate". "Quite often in government, we feed garbage and you get garbage and you feed our garbage

G20 meet: Infra to sustainable finance, global headwinds take centre stage

The ministry and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are jointly co-hosting the FCBD meeting

First meeting of finance, central bank deputies to begin in Bengaluru today

With over 180 delegates from all over the world, the first Finance & Central Bank Deputies meeting under India's G20 presidency will commence in Bengaluru on Tuesday.

Bengaluru set to host first meeting of G20 Finance Track: Official

Bengaluru will host the first meeting of the G20 Finance Track under India's G20 Presidency

G20 presidency huge opportunity for India: PM Modi ahead of winter session

Before the start of the Winter Session of the Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that India receiving the G20 Presidency is a huge opportunity

India's G20 priorities to reflect that of the global south: Amitabh Kant

'This is a unique forum of both the developed world and emerging economies. We need to build new approaches that benefit them both'

India taking over G20 presidency watershed moment: PM's principal secy

The prime minister's principal secretary P K Mishra said that holding the meeting at 56 different locations in the country will ensure that the pan-India nature of event is truly showcased

G20's declining share in the world, amid India's growing influence

As the country prepares to host the summit of twenty nations next year in September 2023, it also has to tackle rising concerns of climate change and calls for the expansion of the group from other co

Andaman's Swaraj Dweep decked up for G20 Presidency meeting today

Swaraj Dweep, popularly known as Havelock Island, in Andaman and Nicobar Islands has been decked up to host one of the much-awaited meetings of the G20 Presidency which will be held on Saturday afternoon. Spread over an area of 92.2 sq km and having a population of 5,500, Swaraj Dweep is two-and-half-hour by sea journey from Port Blair in government ferries and private cruises. As Swaraj Dweep is known for its pristine beaches, G20 India coordinator Harsh Vardhan Shringla and G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant organised a yoga session on Kala Patthar beach on Saturday morning for around 40 delegates from various countries. The beach is nearly 13 km from the private hotel where they are staying. The delegates, including British High Commissioner to India Alex Ellis, Russian ambassador Denis Alipov, German envoy Dr P Ackermann, Australian High Commissioner to India Barry O'Farrell and others reached the island around 7.30 pm on Friday after a tour of Cellular Jail in Port Blair, a senior offici

LIVE: Tributes paid to martyrs on 14th anniversary of 26/11 terror attacks

Live news updates: ATS chief Hemant Karkare, Army Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Mumbai's Additional Police Commissioner Ashok Kamte and Senior Police Inspector Vijay Salaskar were among those killed

G20: Lessons from Bali summit and what it implies for India's presidency

India takes on the presidency at a crucial juncture, and the definitions of "success" for the Indian presidency just got updated

LIVE updates: PM Narendra Modi holds roadshow in Gujarat's Vapi

PM Modi is scheduled to hold rallies in Gujarat's Saurashtra for three consecutive days from Nov 20 to Nov 22. Stay tuned for LIVE updates

G20: India to host science ministries meet in Coimbatore next year

India will host a meeting of science ministers from G-20 member nations at Coimbatore in July next year during its presidency of the grouping of the world's 20 major developed and emerging economies. Besides the Science-20 Summit with the theme Disruptive Science for Innovative and Sustainable Growth', the science administrators will also host the Research Innovation Initiated Gathering (RIIG) on the theme Research and Innovation for Equitable Society. Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday chaired a meeting of six science ministries and departments to review the preparations for the S-20 summit. A number of side events related to the Science-20 and RIIG meetings have been planned across the country to showcase India's rich cultural heritage and diversity, an official statement said. The Science-20 Secretariat will be chaired by Vijay P Bhatkar, the architect of the PARAM series of supercomputers with Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India Prof

Australian PM Anthony Albanese to visit India next March to lock trade deal

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Australia next year for the Quad Leaders' meeting. And then he will return to India later in the year for the G20 Summit, a statement by the Australian PM said.

G20: Leaders see deteriorating debt woes in middle-income nations

The leaders said they would step up efforts to implement the Common Framework for debt treatments in a "predictable, timely, orderly and coordinated manner"