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BRICS countries, which was held in South Africa, received unprecedented international attention. Some commentators even invoked the Bandung conference of 1955, where leaders of India, China, Indonesia, Egypt and Yugoslavia launched the non-aligned movement (NAM). It seemed as though another generation of leaders, this time from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, were building an alternative to the US-dominated global order.

OKX and Bybit are the latest digital asset exchanges to delist sanctioned Russian banks from their peer-to-peer (P2P) services. 

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Russia and China, a paragraph on the war in Ukraine was classified as 'Chair Summary', while remaining 16 paragraphs became part of the 'Outcome Document' that was unanimously adopted by all the member countries, said an official release. Chief science advisers and the nominated equivalents from G20 members and guest countries met during the day at Mahatma Mandir here for the second meeting of the G20-Chief Science Advisers' Roundtable under India's G20 presidency. «We are very hopeful and convinced that the next presidency of Brazil will take it forward. In this roundtable, the focus was on three themes — One Health for better disease prevention, control, and pandemic preparedness, efforts to expand access to scholarly scientific knowledge and ensuring diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in science and technology ecosystem» Ajay Kumar Sood, Principal Scientific Adviser to the government, said at a press conference. All the member countries collectively deliberated on these issues and expressed commitment towards fulfilling these common priorities, Sood added. «We recognise that interdependent health threats to human, animal, plant and environmental health should be addressed collectively through the One Health approach.

By Howard Schneider

Chandrayaan 3 near the south pole, a bizarre video has surfaced in which a purported student of a madrassa in Pakistan asserts that the moon and sun revolve around the earth. In the video, which has now gone viral on social networks, a reporter asks the'student' if science and English are taught in the madrassas. She then asks the student if the earth is round or flat, and the teenager says neither.

Putin held a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday. The two leaders reviewed progress on a number of issues of bilateral cooperation and exchanged views on regional and global issues of mutual concern, including space cooperation and an upcoming summit of the G20, the PMO said in a statement released on the same. President Putin also conveyed his inability to attend the G20 Summit in New Delhi on September 9–10, 2023, and informed that Russia would be represented by the Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov, the PMO further said. The two leaders took part in a summit of the BRICS group of emerging economies in South Africa last week, Modi in person and Putin by video link. Last week on Saturday, the Press Secretary to the Russian President Dmitry Peskov had informed the Russian media that President Vladimir Putin will not participate in the G20 leaders’ summit to be held in New Delhi. These developments are in line with other recent international summits held after the beginning of the Ukraine crisis in February 2022, where Putin has remained absent. The International Criminal Court (ICC) had earlier in March issued an arrest warrant for Putin and another Russian official.

Tiger Global, through its affiliate Internet Fund III Pte, has exited food delivery platform Zomato by selling its entire stake via bulk deals on Monday. Under the transaction, the US hedge fund has offloaded 12.3 crore shares or 1.47% stake in the company on BSE at Rs 91.01 apiece, earning about Rs 1,123 crore. Marquee funds, including Axis Mutual Fund, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley Asia, and Societe Generale were among the buyers in the transaction. Meanwhile, another Russia-based fund Apoletto Asia has sold 3.19 crore shares in a separate deal on NSE, according to exchange data. Earlier, it was reported that Japanese tech giant SoftBank was likely to offload Zomato shares as the lock-in for the post-Blinkit deal ended on Friday. Zomato issued fresh equity shares to all the selling shareholders of Blinkit as consideration for the M&A last year.

Narendra Modi as reported by Russian news agency TASS. The call between the two top leaders were held after reports last week indicated that Russian President will not personally attend the G20 summit to be held in New Delhi in September and the Kremlin announced on Friday, saying he has a "busy schedule" and the main focus is still the "special military operation" in Ukraine. The G20 world leaders' summit is scheduled to be held in New Delhi on September 9 and 10.

Mangalyaan in November 2013 with an objective of exploring Mars' surface, morphology, and mineralogy; studying the Martian atmosphere; testing interplanetary mission technologies and demonstrating India's space capabilities. With the mission, the objective of developing the technologies required for interplanetary missions was achieved.

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance continues introducing more restrictions for its Russian customers on its peer-to-peer (P2P) trading platform.

Ukraine-Pakistan ties have gradually deepened amid the ongoing war with Russia. Islamabad started importing wheat from Kyiv earlier this year and is reportedly shipping weapons and other defence items to the war-hit nation. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba had also made a day trip to Pakistan last month - the first ministerial visit from Ukraine since the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries in 1993.

At least two major crypto exchanges followed Binance in excluding Russian banks under international financial sanctions from their payment options. Tinkoff Bank and Sberbank are no longer available on the list of P2P transactions on ByBit and OKX. 

Falling prices for steel-making coal has forced Bowen Coking Coal to rethink the future of a mine it bought only two years ago.

Digital ruble scammers have reportedly struck in multiple Russian regions, with fraudsters apparently hoping to dupe citizens who do not yet fully understand how the CBDC works.

Pragyan, moving on the surface of the moon, is in a «race against time» and that the ISRO scientists are working to cover a maximum distance of the uncharted South pole through the six-wheeled rover. The scientist said that «real work» starts only after a soft landing on the moon's surface. India took a giant leap on August 23, as the Chandrayaan-3 lander module successfully landed on the moon’s South pole, making it the first country to have achieved the historic feat. The country became the fourth– after the US, China, and Russia – to have successfully landed on the moon’s surface. «On August 23, we achieved a soft landing on the lunar surface and Prime Minister Narendra Modi also interacted with scientists of ISRO to congratulate them. But, the real work started after rover Pragyan rolled out of the lander Vikram,» Desai said.

experimental. But some of them did the job. There were explosions inside the base and several dead, with wounded soldiers seen streaming into the local hospital, according to local sources.

NASA, and other organizations. This dual launch underscores Japan's commitment to advancing space research and exploration.

North Korea says it will allow its citizens staying abroad to return home in line with easing pandemic situations worldwide

A second container ship has left port through a temporary Black Sea corridor established by Ukraine’s government after Russia halted a wartime agreement aimed at ensuring safe grain exports

Vladimir Putin «must have killed» Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that there can be no peace negotiation with Putin on Ukraine, CNN reported. Johnson wrote in an op-ed, speculating about Prigozhin's last moments, a few days after a plane carrying the Wagner boss crashed in a field northwest of Moscow. The reason behind the plane crash remains uncertain, but the US and Western intelligence officials told CNN that it was deliberate. «It can't have been more than a few seconds between the explosion aboard the otherwise reliable Embraer Legacy 600 executive jet, and the moment the Russian thug blacked out in his vertiginous acceleration to earth; and yet in that instant I am certain that he knew with perfect clarity what had happened,» Johnson wrote, according to CNN. «He knew whose hidden hand was sending him 28,000 ft down, to be immolated with the rest of his Wagner group companions in a fireball in the countryside of the Tver region north of Moscow — and then on downwards, of course, for the shade of Prigozhin: down, down to Hades and the Tartarean pit below.» The former UK PM went on to say that the man allegedly «behind the killing of Prigozhin» was «the very same man who authorised, for instance, the poisonings in the UK of Alexander Litvinenko and Sergei Skripal.» «As the detonation sucked the air out of the aircraft's cabin, I would wager that the last thought in the doomed dome of Prigozhin's skull was 'Putin!', preceded by one of the many profanities in which the former jailbird and hotdog salesman was so fluent,» Johnson wrote, as reported by CNN. Prigozhin is believed to have died in a plane crash exactly two months after he instigated a brief uprising in Russia. Wheth