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Former BharatPe CEO Ashneer Grover on Tuesday responded to a defamation case filed against him over his remarks on Indore's top rank in the Centre's cleanliness survey. “Sorry. Not Sorry!" the entrepreneur wrote in a long post on X (formerly Twitter).

Congress Lok Sabha floor leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury alleged chief minister Mamata Banerjee was “destroying Congress in Bengal”. Meanwhile, Banerjee called the removal of the name India as “unconstitutional” without amending the Constitution. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's placard at the opening of the G20 summit on Saturday referred to India as «Bharat», giving rise to controversy. “We also call ‘bharat’ but removing the name ‘India’ is not correct.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday hit out at the BJP-led government at the Centre, alleging delay in giving approval to the construction of the Mekedatu balancing reservoir over river Cauvery, and accused neighbouring Tamil Nadu of causing «unnecessary nuisance» on the issue. Karnataka has been pressing for the implementation of the Mekedatu project, saying it is the only solution for the Cauvery water dispute between the two states during times of rainfall distress. «The BJP government at the Centre has not given permission for the Mekedatu project.

G20 Summit is all people could think about as the two-day event concluded on Sunday. Taking to social media, several Bollywood celebrities and business leaders have been heaping praise on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his leadership for conducting the successful G20 Leaders' Summit at the state-of-the-art Bharat Mandapam Convention Centre in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. From the film fraternity, megastar Amitabh Bachchan was beaming with pride at the G2 success. «India's pride! India a quantum leap into the forefront of the world,» he wrote in his tweet. Lauding the success of the G20 Summit, actress Kangana Ranaut — who never misses a chance to praise PM Modi for his exceptional work — said that «Bharat» took its first step as a world leader. «Bharat as the world leader is leading us into a glorious future,» she tweeted.

Hyderabad: The Congress would announce five 'guarantees' to Telangana people ahead of the Legislative Assembly elections at a public meeting to be held here on September 17.

Aditya L1 Mission: Aditya-L1, India's first solar mission, has successfully performed the third earth-bound manoeuvre, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Sunday. The new orbit attained by the satellite is 296km x 71767 km. A total of five such orbit manoeuvring will be performed during the satellite's revolution around the Earth of which three have been successfully performed.

Olaf Scholz arrived at the G20 summit in the national capital wearing an eye patch. The latest look of the German chancellor was due to an injury that he had sustained while jogging last week in Potsdam. This morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi warmly welcomed Scholz at the Bharat Mandapam venue ahead of the G20 Summit and also inquired about the reason behind the German Chancellor's eyepatch. Scholz had a few days ago posted a picture of himself on X which showed the patch along with and captioned it, «Am excited to see the memes.» «Thanks for the well wishes, it looks worse than it is! The 65-year-old German leader said in the post. The two-day G20 Leaders Summit is being hosted by India at the newly inaugurated Bharat Mandapam Convention Centre in Pragati Maidan, the national capital. This marks the first time that India is presiding over the G20 Summit, an organization formed in 1999 with the objective of ensuring global financial stability by including middle-income countries. India assumed the G20 presidency on December 1 last year and about 200 meetings related to G20 were organized in 60 cities across the country.

A post shared by Ashneer Grover (@ashneer.grover) Users and fans commented on his post with some praising the beauty of Delhi while others criticizing the treatment of animals. with one user wrote, “Porsche batana jaroori tha?" while another user wrote, “They have killed so many stray dogs in attempt to keep the city clean for G20" One user wrote, “Better late than never , it's our duty to maintain that beauty." Another wrote, “The song suggests Sir is getting a feeling of Dubai while roaming outside the House in Delhi" One also said, “3 din mazze lelo Delhi k ... Baad mein sab jante hai humara vikaas" Some other wrote, “Views will stay same in Porsche or Maruti" Another wrote, “Please no.

heatwave was unprecedented and the most intense in the last 70 years, severely affecting millions of people in South Asia, according to new research from India. Such heatwaves are expected to increase in the near future, enhancing heat accumulation in the region and threatening food, water and energy security in the region, the study from institutes including IIT-Gandhinagar and IIT-Jodhpur, said. South Asia faced five continuous heatwave spells that lasted about 35 days during late February and April 2022, affecting a large part of the region. The heatwave lasted for a longer duration and had more spells than the historical heatwave events, compared to the historical heatwave events during 1950-2021, the study published in Environmental Research Letters said. Exceptional heating with more than 3.9 degrees Celsius rise in maximum temperature was experienced by majority region of South Asia, which includes countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal and Sri Lanka, along with India, the study found after analysing observational datasets from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US, and European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Reanalysis version 5 (ERA5). The study projected an increase in frequency of mega heatwave, more severe than that of 2022, in a warming planet under all types of emissions scenario.

G20 Summit 2023 LIVE Updates: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina held a bilateral talk in New Delhi on Friday, the two countries also signed three memorandum of understanding (MoUs), including one on cooperation in Digital Payment mechanisms.Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden arrived in the national capital Delhi on Friday to participate in the G20 Summit to be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. US President Biden, along with Janet Yellen, went for a closed-door meeting with PM Modi on Friday, after the former arrived in India.The Quad, comprising India, US, Japan and Australia, has been focusing on practical cooperation to ensure a free and open Indo-Pacific in the backdrop of China's increasing military muscle-flexing in the region.The 18th G20 Summit is being held at the state-of-the-art Bharat Mandapam Convention Centre in New Delhi on September 9 and 10.A Leaders Declaration will be adopted at the conclusion of the New Delhi Summit.Check all the latest updates on the G20 Summit 2023 at Mint's LIVE blog:German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in New Delhi today to attend the two-day-long G20 Summit which is being held under India's Presidency.He was received by Union Minister of State for MSME, Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma at the airport.A group of dancers also presented a traditional dance to welcome the German chancellor.In May this year Prime Minister Narendra Modi had met the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and reviewed the progress in bilateral relations and exchanged views on regional developments and global challenges.The two leaders met on the sidelines of the 49th summit of the Group of Seven (G7) in the Japanese city of Hiroshima in May recently.

Manipur Human Rights Commission (MHRC), Manipur government has taken steps to depute specialist doctors and other health workers at the Foreigners Detention Centre, Sajiwa (Imphal) where 136 foreigners, mostly Myanmarese, have been lodged. MHRC Chairperson Justice (Retd) Utpalendu Bikas Saha recently visited the place. After the visit to the Superintendent Manipur Central Jail, Sajiwa requested the Director of Manipur Health Services to depute two medical officers, one gynaecologist, two male and two female nurses, a pharmacist and a medical attendant at Foreigners Detention Centre, Sajiwa. The Foreigners Detention Centre, Sajiwa was set up on February 16 this year and presently 136 foreigners, mostly Myanmar nationals, including 24 women and 6 minors are lodged in the Centre. The Central Jail Superintendent in his letter to the Health Director said that recently, the Chairperson of MHRC on his visit to this Detention Centre expressed his dissatisfaction with the health care facilities being provided to the inmates at the Detention Centre, specially unavailability specialist Gynaecologist. Presently, two lady medical officers and one lady staff nurse are posted at the center.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee attacked Governor CV Ananda Bose, alleging that he was holding back bills passed by the state assembly. "The governor's actions are an attempt to paralyse state administration. He cannot hold back finance bills," she said.

Two Toronto men are dead and six other men were injured, including an American, after a shooting outside of a wedding venue in Ottawa on Saturday night.

₹2-3 trillion from its balance sheet in 2018 for pre-election expenditure ahead of Lok Sabha polls in the following year, former RBI deputy governor Viral Acharya said in a new prelude to his book, Quest for Restoring Financial Stability in India published by Penguin Random House India. This revelation comes amid calls for increased government spending before the general and assembly elections due in 2024, despite marginal growth in the Centre’s tax collections in the first five months of FY24. Acharya has for the first time publicly disclosed in his prelude the series of events that led to the differences between RBI and the government that he had first hinted while delivering his speech at the A.D.

Amaravati: The Meteorological department has forecast heavy rains in parts of Andhra Pradesh for the next five days, accompanied by lightning and thunderstorms, said an official on Monday. Heavy to very heavy rains is likely in parts of North Coastal AP (NCAP), South Coastal AP (SCAP), Rayalaseema and Yanam from Monday to Wednesday, along with lightning and thunderstorms. On Thursday and Friday, parts of NCAP and Yanam are likely to witness heavy rains, accompanied by lightning and thunderstorms, said the official from the Amaravati Meteorological Centre in a press release. According to the Met department, the cyclonic circulation over northeast Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood now lies over the northwest area of the same sea and vicinity.

G-20 Summit on September 9 and 10 at the newly constructed Bharat Mandapam Convention Centre in Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. Ahead of the much-anticipated event, Delhi Police Metro unit head has asked the Chief Security Commissioner to close some metro station gates towards the VVIP routes from September 8 to 10.

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday said the first earth-bound firing to raise the Aditya-L1 orbit has been completed successfully. The space agency asserted that the satellite is healthy and operating nominally. In a post on X said, ISRO said, «The first Earth-bound maneuvre (EBN#1) is performed successfully from ISTRAC, Bengaluru. The new orbit attained is 245km x 22459 km.

Following its take-off at noon from the spaceport at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, the satellite successfully separated from the launch vehicle a while later. Soon after, Isro chief S Somanath confirmed that the satellite had been “injected in an elliptical orbit and is on its way to the Sun on its four-month long journey”.

Arvind Kejriwal said it is no time for blame game as international guests will be coming to the city. Saxena, in an interview with PTI earlier in the day, said the preparatory work for the G20 summit would have taken lesser efforts had the city government worked throughout the last nine years. “Lesser efforts would have been reqd (required) had MCD under BJP worked for 15 years.

HS Prannoy had lost a gut-wrenching final at the Australian Open last month and was out for dinner with his team. But his mind was still on the court at the State Sports Centre in Sydney. “I don’t really want to force myself to get over this immediately. Sometimes the sadness or the disappointment is also important,” Prannoy told this writer. “At 19-14, I should have won it. Maybe I will do so at bigger stages, when I won’t make the same mistake again,” he added. At a career-high ranking of world No. 6, Prannoy can justly think of the bigger stages. He has now beaten everyone on the circuit and is perhaps the only player who has pushed Viktor Axelsen each time he has played him in the last few months. From suffering from the Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and finding it difficult to breathe to making it into the top six of the world badminton, Prannoy is a story of resilience and courage. A day after Prannoy won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Denmark last week, national chief coach Pullela Gopichand put it in context. “This has to rank as one of the greatest victories of his career. Just think of the context. Viktor at home in front of buoyant Danish fans. He had lost to Viktor twice in the last two months and the last loss was when he was in a winning position. Such losses scar you mentally. And here he was a game down. To win from there against the best player in the world is something Prannoy should forever be proud of,” Gopi said.

Aditya L1 — Nigar Shaji, the director of the project, said on Saturday that it was like a dream coming true. ET's Aditiya-L1 mission: Watch all the developments here Speaking on Saturday, Shaji said, «It feels like a dream coming true. I am extremely happy that Aditya L-1 has been injected successfully (into the designated orbit) by the PSLV.