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Jaishankar on Thursday said India's G20 presidency comes with expectations and responsibilities that are exceptional. Speaking at an event at Delhi University (DU), the EAM weighed in on what makes India's G20 presidency different. «The first reason is actually the chair.

In the run upto the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress has appointed former Delhi minister Arvinder Singh Lovely as the president of its Delhi unit. He succeeds Anil Chaudhary in the role.

G20 Summit and India's Presidency: Date, Logo, Venue, Theme, how does it work and more | FAQs In contrast to her tweet, AAP MP Sanjay Singh has accused Delhi Lieutenant Governor (L-G) VK Saxena of disrespecting Shivlings'. Moreover, in the tweet, he also demanded an apology from the BJP and said that action should be taken against the Delhi LG. In a tweet on X, Sanjay Singh wrote, “Shivling was insulted under the leadership of Modi ji and shameless BJP people are praising Modi.

₹100 crore into the airline and to be able to service its insurance and other statutory obligations. Go First, earlier owned by the Wadia Group, filed for insolvency attributing financial troubles to Pratt and Whitney's faulty engines.

₹59,490 per 10 gm on Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), and went on to hit an intraday high of 59,520, and a low of ₹59,420 in the domestic market. Around 10 a.m., MCX Gold for October 5 delivery traded 0.05 per cent lower at ₹59447 per 10 grams. Gold price on Thursday, August 31 stood at ₹54850 per 10 grams for 22 carats, and ₹59820 per 10 grams for 24-carat in the spot market.

yellow metal has been moving with strength riding on slippages in the DXY which has gone below the 104 mark. The MCX October gold futures were trading up by Rs 12 or 0.02% from the Wednesday closing price at Rs 59,490 per 10 gram on the MCX while the December Silver futures were trading at Rs 76,100 per kg, lower by Rs 180 or 0.24%. On the Comex, Gold futures were trading at $1,972.70 per troy ounce on Thursday, down by $0.30 or 0.02% while Silver futures were trading at $24.985, lower by $0.119 or 0.470%. The DXY was trading flat at 103.03 against a basket of six top currencies, though the bias was negative. The October Gold futures had ended with gains of Rs 200 or 0.34% per 10 gram at Rs 59,466 while the December Silver futures closed higher at Rs 76,222, down by Rs 218 per kg or 0.29%. «Gold's value has stayed high for three weeks because the latest US economic data indicates slower growth. This led traders to reduce their expectations of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates next month.

student suicides, 23 to date this year in the country's biggest coaching hub of Kota alone, has the study centres on the defensive. The heads of coaching institutes in Kota, where about 200,000 students from all over the country are currently preparing for various entrance exams including JEE and NEET, said they are taking steps aimed at mitigation. Some are putting sports on the daily activity menu, while others are tracking psychological wellbeing and daily attendance, apart from having psychiatrists and psychologists on hand to keep depression at bay. Academic and industry experts told ET the problem goes beyond just the coaching factories.

With mere hours left for an Opposition meeting in Mumbai Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has emerged as a contender for Prime Minister in 2024. Members of the Aam Aadmi Party called for a nomination on Wednesday, prompting a war of words. Others sought to quell the debate, insisting that a decision would be taken collectively by the INDIA alliance.

NEW DELHI : Google on Thursday announced an India-tuned version of its generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered version of its primary product, Search. The platform, which will be available as a pilot to select users, will offer a chatbot-like experience—instead of the typical search bar that has been synonymous with the search engine so far. The India-specific version of Google’s AI-powered Search, called Search Generative Experience (SGE), will offer users the ability to search in English and Hindi, and also offer both voice readouts of search results, and voice inputs for search queries.

₹100 crore into the airline and to be able to service its insurance and other statutory obligations. Go First, earlier owned by the Wadia Group, filed for insolvency attributing financial troubles to Pratt and Whitney’s faulty engines.

theme parks KidZania, is planning to spend $50 million over the next 5-10 years to launch five new theme parks in cities like Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Pune, Hyderabad, and Chennai, a top company official said. The company currently operates two KidZania branded theme parks in Mumbai and Delhi spread across 70,000 sq ft and 95,000 sq ft, respectively. The two centres used to draw an annual footfall of 400,000 persons prior to the pandemic, which has dropped to 300,000 post the pandemic. «We are expecting about $50 million of investment to launch the five new centres,» said Paras Chandaria, founder and promoter, KidZania India, adding that the company is open to working with strategic partners to realise its ambitious expansion plans in the country.Chandaria's Kidz Inc Pte owns a 74% stake in Imagination Edutainment while Khan holds the remaining 26%.

air pollution, according to the Air Quality Life Index report of the Energy Policy Institute at University of Chicago. Delhi residents are most at risk. They’re losing 11.9 years to the capital’s pollution levels exceeding the safety limit prescribed by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Mint explains: A transit hub is an airport that provides smooth connectivity from one foreign destination to another. Ideally, a transit hub should enable a seamless transfer experience to someone flying from country A to country C via country B. A transit hub often requires a stronghold of a large carrier with a widespread network so that the airline can offer one-stop connectivity to passengers with a wait time of no more than 2 to 3 hours between flights.

NEW DELHI : Germany will not sign a joint statement that ignores Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, said Germany’s G20 sherpa Jorg Kukies. In an interview with Mint, Kukies said that while G20 countries are willing to compromise on language relating to the Ukraine war, Germany does not agree with the position, as articulated by China, that discussion of the Ukraine war does not belong in an economic grouping like the G20. Kukies, who also serves as Germany’s state secretary for finance, noted the need for reforming multilateral development banks and increasing their lending capacity.

New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) is planning to provide air quality early warning through the System of Air Quality Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) to 92 more polluted cities in the next two years. SAFAR, developed by Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorological (IITM) Pune and was operationalized by IMD in 2010 during Commonwealth Games, is India’s first metro air quality service. It currently issues 1-3 days advance forecast in 40 cities including Delhi, Pune, Mumbai and Ahmedabad of a total of 132 ‘air contaminated’ cities.

Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj said on Wednesday. Besides, the Delhi health department has formed 80 teams of doctors and nursing staff, who will serve guests staying at hotels.

₹100 crore into the airline and to be able to service its insurance and other statutory obligations. Go First, earlier owned by the Wadia Group, filed for insolvency attributing financial troubles to Pratt and Whitney's faulty engines.

GST refund in this case, the public exchequer will face loss but the Principal Secretary (Finance) didn't take any action." Providing further details, Atishi stated, "As we are witnessing in present times in Delhi that democracy, the Constitution and the Federal Structure is being disregarded repeatedly. The Central government has introduced the GNCTD (Amendment) Act 2023, also known as the Services Act, which significantly curtails the authority of the elected government of Delhi." Reacting to the alleged refusal of the officers to follow the orders, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal alleged that the Delhi Services Act has given open license to officers to “outrightly rebel against the written orders of elected government" and “officers have started refusing to obey the orders of elected ministers." “Can any state or country or institution run like this? This Act will ruin Delhi and this is what BJP wants.

Delhi Metro on August 29 registered the highest-ever count of daily passenger journeys — 69.94 lakh — surpassing the record it set a day earlier. The corresponding figures on August 28 had stood at 68.16 lakh. Journey or line utilisation is calculated by the number of corridors passengers use to reach their destinations. «Delhi Metro's mission of providing a comfortable journey to its commuters is scaling new heights every day and as a result Delhi Metro once again set a new milestone on 29th August 2023 when more than 69 lakh passenger journeys were performed in the metro in a single day,» the DMRC said in a post on 'X', formerly known as Twitter. Before Monday, the highest passenger journey count was 66,18,717, recorded on February 10, 2020, just before the pandemic disrupted travel patterns and routines. Of the total journeys recorded Tuesday, the Red Line accounted for 7,65,059 journeys, Yellow Line — 19,11,239, Blue Line — 14,90,171, and Airport Express Line — 61,041, among other corridors, according to data shared by the DMRC.

RAPIDX corridor project, a major breakthrough has been accomplished with the successful completion of the last 2km-long tunnel segment between Anand Vihar and Sahibabad. As per a TOI report, with completion of tunneling at the Vaishali retrieving shaft in Ghaziabad, the entire tunnelling work for this 82-km long Delhi-Meerut Rapid rail corridor is now concluded.

ChatGPT became a big success. Big tech companies such as Microsoft, Google and Meta have upped their investments in AI, and companies across sectors are preparing for an AI disruption. For India's information technology (IT) services companies, this has two implications.