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G20 Summit weekend: The national capital is gearing to prepare for the upcoming G20 Summit which will be held from 8-10 September. From traffic restrictions, schools closed to shops, commercial and business establishment closed, people in Delhi are looking for nearby short getaways.

However, no further details were provided so far. This comes after the government has called for a special session of Parliament for five days starting September 18. However, no official announcement has been made regarding the agenda of the session which will be held days after the G20 Summit in the national capital, Delhi, on September 8 to 10, 2023. With the BJP government calling for a special session of the Parliament in September, speculation is rife about the purpose of the sitting.

West Australian Premier Roger Cook will fly to Indonesia with a delegation of mining executives and state ministers working to secure deals with the largest economy in South-East Asia to develop his state’s critical minerals industry.

Hindustantimes.com on Thursday. Chinese Premier Li Qiang will be flying directly to New Delhi after attending the 43rd ASEAN summit in Jakarta on September 5-7.

BRICS last week in Johannesburg, South Africa, the real drama was being played out elsewhere. On one hand, even as Russian President Vladimir Putin was virtually addressing his counterparts, there came news that a private aircraft carrying Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin crashed in Russia, killing all 10 people on board.

special session of Parliament to manage the news cycle that is dominated by fresh allegations against the Adani Group and will focus on the opposition bloc INDIA's meeting on Friday. The demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the allegations against the Adani Group, however, will continue to resonate inside and outside Parliament, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. The government has convened a five-day special session of Parliament from September 18 and 22, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said earlier on Thursday. There was no official word on the agenda of the session which will be held days after the G20 Summit in Delhi on September 9 and 10. Earlier in the day, the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)alleged hundreds of millions of dollars were invested in publicly traded group stocks of billionaire Gautam Adani's group through Mauritius-based «opaque» investment funds managed by partners of promoter family, charges the conglomerate denied vehemently. Shares of the Adani Group stocks fell after the report of the investigative reporting platform was made public. The fresh allegations by the organisation funded by the likes of billionaire investor George Soros and Rockefeller Brothers Fund come months after a US short seller wiped away close to $150 billion in value of Adani Group stocks with allegations of accounting fraud, stock price manipulation and improper use of tax havens by the ports-to-energy conglomerate. The Adani Group has denied all Hindenburg allegations.

government has called for a special session of Parliament for five days starting September 18, said Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi on Thursday. However, no official announcement has been made regarding the agenda of the session which will be held days after the G20 Summit in the national capital, Delhi, on September 8 to 10, 2023. «Special Session of Parliament (13th Session of 17th Lok Sabha and 261st Session of Rajya Sabha) is being called from 18th to 22nd September having five sittings.

Reuters citing two Indian officials, including a diplomat stationed in China and another official from a different G20 nation, have indicated that Premier Li Qiang is projected to attend the New Delhi meeting on September 9-10 as a representative of Beijing. The G20 summit scheduled in India was seen as a potential opportunity for Chinese President Xi Jinping to engage with US President Joe Biden, who has already confirmed his participation.

Xi Jinping is likely to skip a summit of G20 leaders in India next week, sources familiar with the matter in India and China told Reuters. Two Indian officials, one diplomat based in China and one official working for the government of another G20 country said Premier Li Qiang is expected to represent Beijing at the Sept. 9-10 meeting in New Delhi. Spokespersons for the Indian and Chinese foreign ministries did not respond to requests for comment. The summit in India had been viewed as a venue at which Xi may meet with U.S.

G20 Summit, Delhi's Rajghat memorial complex has undergone unique landscaping and a 115-ft Indian flag has been installed at the site, PWD minister Atishi said. On Wednesday, the Delhi cabinet minister inspected the Shantivan Road stretch and the Delhi Gate stretch in view of the G20 Summit. She said, "Preparations for the G20 summit are in full swing across Delhi, with beautification efforts also well underway.

China released its standard map that included India's Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pradesh, Congress MLA, Ninong Ering has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to raise the issue of People's Republic of China's aggression in the scheduled G20 Summit in Delhi on September 9-10. In his letter to the PM on Tuesday, the Congress leader said that the 'deliberate incident' on the part of the PRC has invoked deep resentment among the people of Arunachal Pradesh. «This unforeseen, unfortunate yet deliberate incident on the part of PRC has invoked deep resentment among the people of Arunachal Pradesh, it is in common knowledge that the PRC has earlier too tried to assert its claim over Arunachal Pradesh by renaming 11 locations in April 2023, 15 locations in 2021 and 6 places in 2017,» Ering said. The Congress MLA who represents the Pashighat-west seat, a constituency bordering the Chinese-controlled Tibet Autonomous Region, in the Arunachal Pradesh legislative assembly, said that the recent release of the 'PRC Standard Map' is a culmination of their nefarious plans and a matter of importance since Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of India and has scarred memories of the 1962 Sino-Indian war. In his letter, he also mentioned the Galwan Valley clash between the troops of India and China. «As you know, India is engaged in combat with an aggressive PRC along the Indo-Tibetan border in the Himalayas and 20 of Indian Army personnel gave their lives while defending India's frontiers against the PLA in Galwan Valley in 2020. Prior to this, you have emphasized that no one can seize an inch of India's land.

₹50-75 for each cancellation, and this rebate should be provided to the affected passenger. These changes would take effect once the government approves them, reversing the current practice where passengers are charged for cancellations, HT reported. The committee, led by retired bureaucrat Sudhirkumar Shrivastava, also proposed that taxis be given a maximum of 20 minutes to reach the pickup point, with fines imposed for delays.

G20 Summit in India is all set to commence on September 9 in the national capital. The summit will be held for two days and will be joined by representatives of member nations as well as guest nations who will engage in discussions about diverse economic reforms. The summit will be concluded on September 10 with the adoption of a G20 Leaders' Declaration.

BRICS summit in Johannesburg in South Africa. After the meet, news report said that both leaders had directed defence administration to reach a solution on the Line of Actual Control dispute between China's People's Liberation Army, and Indian Army. On a day China's new ‘standard map’ came to limelight, satellite images have revealed that Beijing has ramped up construction of reinforced personnel bunkers and underground facilities in Aksai Chin, according to a Hindustan Times report.

Arunachal Pradesh which China claims as South Tibet and Aksai Chin occupied by it in the 1962 war as part of its territory. Taiwan and the disputed South China Sea are also included within the Chinese territory in the new map. Later in the day the External affairs ministry of India said that it strongly opposed the move by China.

BRICS grouping will see it controlling 46 per cent of the world's population and 30 per cent of its economic output, according to a research paper. At the latest BRICS summit in Johannesburg last week, the present members — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — decided to add Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as new members of the grouping. The new members will become part of BRICS effective January 1, 2024. The acronym BRICS was originally coined in 2001 by Goldman Sachs economists led by Jim O'Neill.

Aksai Chin occupied by it in the 1962 war as part of its territory. The map also incorporates China's claims over the nine-dash line thus laying claim to a large part of the South China Sea. The map was released by China’s Ministry of Natural Resources during the celebration of Surveying and Mapping Publicity Day and the National Mapping Awareness Publicity Week on Monday in Deqing county, Zhejiang province, as per China Daily newspaper.

Also read: ‘G20 summit is People’s Presidency', says PM Modi in Mann Ki Baat From September 8 to September 10, all establishments, including schools, offices, restaurants, malls, and markets in New Delhi, will be closed. The Supreme Court will also remain closed during this period.

By David Shepardson

President Vladimir Putin of Russia will be unable to attend the G20 Summit in New Delhi, the Kremlin announced last week. This came after Russia’s longtime leader also skipped the BRICS Summit in South Africa. Putin will also skip the East Asia Summit in Jakarta, which will see Prime Minister Narendra Modi participate.

BRICS countries to reach an understanding with China on the issue of cross-border terrorism, said the State Bank of India (SBI) in a new research report. The report stated that there is a need for India and China to increase cooperation on issues like river water (Brahmaputra) data sharing, entry of Indian pharmaceutical companies into China, etc.