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New Delhi: India will showcase its indigenous digital stacks and apps in the upcoming G20 Summit as it will invite delegates to visit the Digital India experience zone at the venue over the weekend of September 9 and 10. The country’s flagship platforms including Aadhaar, UPI, ONDC will be put up for display, while delegates will also be shown a new app called GITA, which will offer spiritual aspects inspired from Shrimad Bhagwad Gita, a senior official from IT Ministry said.

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INDIA is preparing a list of anchors of TV media channels whom the alliance will boycott and the leaders from different parties will not participate in debates and shows run by those anchors, sources said. According to sources in the know, the list will include those anchors who do not give adequate space to opposition leaders in their debates as well as try to «impose a narrative» that runs against the interests of the opposition and often works in favour of the ruling BJP. The alliance's 'working group for media' is scheduled to hold a meeting on September 8 where discussions regarding the issue will also be held, amongst other issues. The INDIA bloc is likely to release the list in a month and restrictions will be followed until the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, a member-leader of the working committee told ET on conditions of anonymity.

The U.K. is set to re-enter the European Union’s flagship scientific research program, according to two people familiar with discussions, the biggest step by the U.K. to tighten ties with the bloc since Brexit.

Arm has long had an outsize reach in the chip industry. Still, a $50 billion market valuation is ambitious even in a market starved for major new tech listings. The British chip designer proposed pricing terms Tuesday morning for its planned initial public offering.

Blink Charging (BLNK) announced Wednesday its intention for its UK subsidiary to mark World EV Day on September 9 by contributing profits made from its UK chargers.

Rising home prices have sent property values soaring over the past five years, and for some lucky buyers who snapped up homes in 2018, that’s amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars in extra equity.

B2C2, a prominent crypto liquidity provider catering to institutional clients worldwide and a digital asset pioneer shaping the future ecosystem, has finalized its acquisition of Woorton, a leading European entity in market making and over-the-counter transactions for the digital asset sector.

On 2023-08-23, Binance, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges, made an official announcement regarding the removal of specific spot trading pairs. Effective from 2023-08-25 at 03:00 (UTC), the following spot pairs will no longer be available for trading on the platform: ALCX/BUSD, FOR/BUSD, LOOM/BUSD, NMR/BUSD, PEOPLE/BUSD, PUNDIX/BUSD, SPELL/BUSD, and STORJ/BUSD.

Shaktikanta Das announced the launch of the products by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) at the ongoing Global Fintech Festival here. One of the products is Hello! UPI that will enable users to make voice-enabled UPI payments via apps, telecom calls, and IoT devices in Hindi and English. It will soon be available in several other regional languages also.

The Rolling Stones are returning with their first collection of original songs since 2005. The British rock-music architects held a media event in Hackney, an area in east London, on Wednesday where they unpacked details of their coming album, “Hackney Diamonds." As part of the event, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood fielded questions from American comedian and late-night show host Jimmy Fallon. The launch, which was livestreamed on YouTube, followed a teaser campaign that included a snippet of a new song and a mysterious advertisement placed in the Hackney Gazette, a local newspaper.

airport is seeing a delay in security as UK Police continues a manhunt for an escaped soldier who is facing terrorism charges. According to media reports, a manhunt has been launched after a terror suspect escaped on Wednesday morning. The escaped soldier has been identified as Daniel Abed Khalife.

An invitation from the President’s office to G20 leaders for a dinner that describes Droupadi Murmu as the “President of Bharat"—rather than of “India"—has sparked off a war of words between the ruling party and the opposition, with the latter spying in it a trial balloon to rename the country. To be sure, “Bharat" has been used in other official missives as well, even from the Prime Minister.

India's long-term economic growth present plenty of room for Indian and Scotch whiskies to prosper in the world's biggest whisky market, an industry association said on Wednesday.Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) also said that the proposed reduction in import duty by India under a free trade agreement between New Delhi and London would not only help boost exports of Scotch whiskey from the UK, but consumers here will also get more choice as smaller producers enter the market. India and the UK are negotiating a free trade agreement. It will also benefit India-Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) brands by reducing import costs. The association also said that imported Scotch whisky will pose «very little» direct competition to local Indian whisky because of its small size here. A large portion of the export of Scotch whisky to India is in bulk, and the bottled versions are only 24 per cent of exports.

Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey hinted on Wednesday that the central bank was close to ending a prolonged policy of raising interest rates, easing worries about a cost-of-living crisis. «I think we are much nearer now to the top of the cycle,» Bailey told a panel of cross-party lawmakers gathered to question the BoE chief on the state of the UK economy with UK inflation the highest among G7 nations. «And I'm not therefore saying we're at the top of the cycle because we've got a meeting to come but I think we are much nearer to it,» he added. The pound dropped against the dollar and euro on the comments as traders bet that the BoE may already decide to pause hiking rates at a regular monetary policy meeting later this month. UK annual inflation stands at 6.8 percent, above the five percent Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is aiming to reach by the end of the year. Sunak at the start of 2023 said he hoped to halve UK inflation when the level stood above 10 percent. Bailey on Wednesday added that «the fall in inflation will continue». «I think it (the fall) will be quite marked by the end of this year.» Global inflation soared after Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent energy and food prices rocketing. Inflation has been fuelled over the past 18 months also owing to supply constraints as the world emerged from pandemic lockdowns. Surging inflation resulted in the BoE hiking its key interest rate for a 14th time in a row last month to 5.25 percent, a 15-year high. The central bank is tasked by the UK government with keeping annual inflation at around two percent. A leading think-tank on Wednesday said working-age households in Britain were experiencing the worst growth in living standards since at least the 1950s. Typical,

By Sruthi Shankar and Shashwat Chauhan

India as Bharat, after G20 Summit invites to international leaders from President Droupadi Murmu, termed the latter as President of Bharat, instead of the usual President of India, reports have emerged recalling that the same BJP that is embracing the BHARAT term in 2023, has walked out of the Uttar Pradesh state Assembly in 2004 over a resolution passed by Mulayam Singh Yadav to rename India as Bharat. In 2004, the Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav led Uttar Pradesh cabinet had passed a resolution that the Constitution must be amended to say ‘Bharat, that is India’, instead of ‘India, that is Bharat’.

Delhi Police assistant commissioner of police Rajender Kalkal has sketched caricatures of 30 world leaders who are scheduled to attend the G20 Summit in the national capital later this week. Kalkal has made caricatures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, UK PM Rishi Sunak, Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina, US President Joe Biden, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Japanese PM Fumio Kishida, etc. Kalkal has placed the caricatures at his office on the 14th floor of the Delhi Police headquarters. «I have a hobby of making cartoons and caricatures since my childhood.

LONDON (Reuters) — Britain's statistics office requested earlier access to key economic data on Wednesday, a few days after it sharply revised its estimate of the size of the economy at the end of 2021 which caught many analysts by surprise.

Rishi Sunak has given the go-ahead for his officials to finalise a deal allowing Britain to re-join the European Union's Horizon scientific research program, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. Under a trade agreement signed at the end of 2020, Britain had negotiated access to a range of science and innovation programmes, including Horizon — a 95.5 billion euro ($97 billion) programme that offers research grants and projects. But it was locked out of Horizon as a result of a tit-for-tat dispute over how the Brexit agreement was being implemented. London and Brussels settled their dispute over post-Brexit trade rules governing Northern Ireland in February, and the UK has since been negotiating with the EU over rejoining Horizon. The report, which cited unnamed sources familiar with the matter, said a deal could be announced as soon as this week, as only minor details remained to be ironed out. Britain's science ministry was not immediately available for comment.

Wagner Group as a terrorist organisation, media reports said on Tuesday, quoting Home Secretary Suella Braverman. The UK was set to make the Wagner Group a «proscribed» organisation under anti-terror laws, putting it on a par with Islamic State and al-Qaeda, a report in the Daily Mail said. «Wagner is a violent and destructive organisation which has acted as a military tool of Vladimir Putin's Russia overseas,» the newspaper quoted Braverman as saying. «While Putin's regime decides what to do with the monster it created, Wagner's continuing destabilising activities only continue to serve the Kremlin's political goals.» Under the Terrorism Act 2000 the home secretary has the power to proscribe an organisation if they believe it is involved in terrorism. A proscription order makes it a criminal offence to support the group. «They are terrorists, plain and simple — and this proscription order makes that clear in UK law,» a BBC report added, quoting the minister. «Wagner has been involved in looting, torture and barbarous murders,» Braverman added in the Daily Mail. The group's operations in Ukraine, the Middle East and Africa «are a threat to global security,» she said. «That is why we are proscribing this terrorist organisation and continuing to aid Ukraine wherever we can in its fight against Russia.» Draft measures to ban the Wagner Group under the act will be laid in Parliament on Wednesday, the reports said. In July, Britain announced sanctions against 13 individuals and businesses it said had links to the Russian group in Africa, accusing it of crimes there including killings and torture. The people and entities targeted — which are no longer able to deal with UK citizens, companies and banks, and have any UK assets