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By Nandita Bose, Francesco Guarascio and Trevor Hunnicutt

trans-Atlantic alliance is taking shape. It is building on India's bilateral ties with the US on end of the pond, and with France on the other.

Joe Biden on Sunday said he held «substantial discussions» with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on ways to strengthen the Indo-US partnership and thanked him for his leadership and hosting the G20 Summit in New Delhi. Biden told reporters here in the Vietnamese capital that he also raised the importance of respecting human rights with Prime Minister Modi. Biden, who arrived in New Delhi on his first visit to India as the US President, held wide-ranging talks with Modi and they vowed to «deepen and diversify» the bilateral major defence partnership while welcoming forward movement in India's procurement of 31 drones and joint development of jet engines. «I want to once again thank Prime Minister Modi for his leadership and his hospitality and hosting the G20.

multilateral development banks (MDBs) during India's G20 presidency would help ensure that such global institutions turn bigger and more effective so that their impact on development can be maximised, economic affairs secretary Ajay Seth said on Sunday. The Delhi declaration will lead to more work on this front, he said, a day after G20 leaders affirmed that «the 21st century also requires an international development finance system that is fit for purpose». «Consensus was built on how to strengthen MDBs and how to make them better, bigger and more effective so that their development impact can be maximised,» Seth said. «Stronger MDBs will be important to our efforts to mobilise financing from all sources for a quantum jump from billions to trillions of dollars for development,» as per the declaration. Once the second part of the report of a G20 expert group, headed by 15th Finance Commission chairman NK Singh and former US treasury secretary Larry Summers, firms up a road map for an updated ecosystem for MDBs, more deliberations are expected on this issue. As for the issue of the climate resilience debt clause, Seth indicated that it was not being discussed for a long time and that more technical work would be required on this front.

NEW DELHI : The World Bank’s vision is being redefined to eradicate poverty on a “liveable planet" as part of ongoing reforms, its president Ajay Banga said on the sidelines of the New Delhi G20 summit, which has pledged to make multilateral lending work for poverty. “There’s a lot of work going on with the World Bank on the reform agenda.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has shared his predictions for the role crypto will play in next years' elections in the United States, claiming that representatives in Washington, D.C. do not fully understand the crypto community's voting power in the upcoming race.

India and Canada. On Sunday during a press conference Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that Canada would defend the freedom to expression, and peaceful protest, the north American country's government would also push back any kind of hatred that was perpetrated. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi met PM Trudeau to express his concern about continuing anti-India activities of extremist elements in Canada as they are promoting secessionism and inciting violence against Indian diplomats and threatening the Indian community in Canada.

What will be the tax applicability and the conversion rates if an Indian resident sells his shares that are listed on the US stock exchange? Can the resident gets both conversion and indexation benefit on such a sale? —Name withheld on request It is assumed that the person selling the shares qualifies as a Resident and Ordinarily Resident in India. Any gains or loss arising from transfer of the shares is chargeable to tax as capital gain or capital loss.

The more & less approach to spending well Finally, I had my epiphany after listening to US personal finance blogger Ramit Sethi. He introduces a unique view on spending. Instead of taking a simplistic ‘don’t spend money on expensive things’ view, he advocates a nuanced approach to spending.

Germany beat Serbia 83-77 on Sunday to win the Basketball World Cup for the first time. The Germans, who went unbeaten through the tournament and were appearing in their first final, broke clear of Serbia in the third quarter in Manila. Serbia launched a furious fourth-quarter fightback but Germany managed to hold them off and put their name on the Naismith Trophy. Dennis Schroder finished as Germany's top scorer with 28 points, followed by Franz Wagner with 19. Germany had beaten the United States in a dramatic semi-final. Serbia, who were looking to win the title for the first time as an independent nation, lost small forward Ognjen Dobric to injury with less than three minutes of the game gone. Dobric had to be carried off after a hard landing while attacking the basket. He later reappeared at courtside, cycling on an exercise bike, but did not come back into the game. Serbia were cheered on by a large group of travelling supporters but could not keep up with Germany in the second half. Aleksa Avramovic finished as Serbia's top scorer with 21 points, followed by Bogdan Bogdanovic with 17. There was little to separate the two teams in a fiercely fought first half that ended 47-47. That all changed in the third quarter when Germany outscored the Serbians 22-10. Serbia came roaring back into the game in the fourth quarter, and cut the deficit to three points with less than a minute remaining. A lay-up from Schroder helped steady Germany's nerves, and a missed three-point attempt from Avramovic ended Serbia's hopes. Serbia were playing without power forward Borisa Simanic, who underwent surgery to remove a kidney after getting injured earlier in the tournament. They were also without superstar Nikola Jokic, who skipped

Joe Biden insisted Sunday he does not want to «contain» China, as the two powers face deepening divisions on trade, security and rights. Biden said he had met Chinese Premier Li Qiang at the G20 summit in New Delhi — a meeting the White House had not announced — and discussed «stability». The president revealed the encounter in Hanoi, where earlier in the day he agreed a deal to deepen ties with Vietnam as Washington looks to bolster its network of allies around Asia and the Pacific in the face of Beijing's rising influence. Washington and Beijing are at loggerheads on a range of global issues, and Biden accused China of seeking to bend the international order to its will. «One of the things that is going on now is China is beginning to change some of the rules of the game, in terms of trade and other issues,» Biden told a news conference. Washington has invested heavily in building alliances as part of its Indo-Pacific strategy, including the Quad security dialogue with India, Australia and Japan, and the AUKUS pact with Britain and Australia. But he insisted the United States is not seeking to box China in, but rather to establish clear ground rules for relations. «I don't want to contain China.

Amid the US debate over student loans—President Joe Biden’s administration tried and failed to forgive some of the debt, which starts accruing interest this month after a three-year pause—a crucial question has often been overlooked: Who benefits the most from student loans? It’s not necessarily students. The main beneficiaries are colleges and other accredited post-secondary educational institutions, which receive the loans as transfers from the federal government via student borrowers. There are few strings attached.

gig economy; or to start up a new business. In a not-so-positive (okay, negative) sense, it also means being sharp, pushy, unscrupulous, fake or downright scamming people. In an age when the meanings of words can be subjective— depending on the identity of the person using them and the specific context of their usage—it can be pretty difficult for a third person to understand what a ‘hustle’ is.

G20 Summit on Sunday, the senior politician noted that the world was ‘larger than five’. The remarks came mere hours after US President Joe Biden reaffirmed his support for a reformed UNSC with India as a permanent member.

Global Financial Crisis to precipitate ponderous deliberations into precipitate, coordinated action, such as infusion of liquidity, provision of swap lines to provide emergency access to foreign currency, institution of elevated capital adequacy norms for banks and extra, loss-absorbing buffers of capital for globally systemically important financial institutions, accompanied by periodic stress tests by banking regulators. The world does not face that kind of a crisis.

Chevron will seek an enforced arbitration with unions at its two huge Western Australian LNG plants after tense negotiations collapsed, claiming weeks of escalating strikes pose a threat to the state’s gas supply.

Narendra Modi welcomed world leaders to the Raj Ghat memorial complex in central Delhi on Sunday, site of the eternal flame that burns for Mahatma Gandhi. Symbolism is hard to escape in the so-called family photograph. It’s a G-20 tradition that offers a rare, unvarnished glimpse of the interaction between leaders — the warmth or chill of greetings, the backslapping, side chats, scowls or moments of awkwardness — and so points to the state of world relations.Also Read: G20 Summit 2023 LIVE: We are always there to push back against hatred, says Trudeau on Khalistani issue Absent from this year’s lineup were China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, both of whom skipped the summit amid tensions with the US and its allies.

Joe Biden arrives in Vietnam on Sunday to deepen cooperation between the two nations, in the face of China's growing ambitions in the region. Biden — who is flying from the G20 summit in New Delhi — will meet the leader of Vietnam's ruling Communist Party, Nguyen Phu Trong, on Sunday, and is expected to sign off on a «comprehensive strategic partnership», Hanoi's highest level of diplomatic ties. The underlying goal of the short visit will be much the same as Biden's time at the G20 gathering — to shore up support against China's increasing influence. For Vietnam, the upgrading of diplomatic ties is significant.

Mel Tucker, and an advocate against sexual violence in sports, Brenda Tracy, who had previously joined forces to combat the culture of sexual violence, now find themselves embroiled in a scandal. Tucker, the head football coach at Michigan State University and one of the highest-paid coaches in the world of sports, stands accused by Tracy, a rape survivor who has dedicated her life to educating athletes about sexual violence, as reported by USA Today.

New Delhi: World Bank president Ajay Banga said that the bank’s vision was being redefined to eradicate poverty on a livable planet as part of the ongoing reforms agenda, and include climate, fragility, pandemic and other elements that the world’s markets were experiencing. He said that the reforms were a continuing process towards which the institution was deeply committed.

US President Joe Biden wished to hold a private mass while in Delhi. “I received an invite from the US embassy asking me whether I can celebrate the Holy Eucharist for the President. They sought an appointment with me, met me personally at the clergy home, and they told me that it is a short service of 20 minutes.