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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — A U.S. judge has canceled a hearing on a $10 billion lawsuit filed by Mexico seeking to hold U.S. gun manufacturers responsible for facilitating arms trafficking to drug cartels, Mexico's foreign ministry said on Saturday.

Imran Khan admitted misplacing a confidential diplomatic cable as he was interrogated by Pakistan's top investigative agency at the Attock Jail in a case filed under the Official Secrets Act for wrongful use of the classified document, according to media reports on Sunday.

Mann Ki Baat: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that lauded the winners of World University Games 2023 and said sports is one area where the country's youth are continuously achieving new success. The Prime Minsiter congratulated and interacted with the athletes who won medals in the World University Games held in China.

Narendra Modi, while addressing the 104th episode of his monthly radio program Mann Ki Baat, on Sunday said that India's G20 presidency is a ‘People’s Presidency'. He said India is fully ready for the G20 leaders summit that will take place next month. “Our Presidency of the G-20 is a People's Presidency, in which the spirit of public participation is at the forefront.

India is fully ready for G20 leaders summit and it will see the highest participation in the bloc's history, said PM Modi while addressing the 104th episode of his monthly radio programme Mann Ki Baat on Sunday. «India's G20 presidency is people's presidency,» said the PM. «The month of September is going to witness the potential of India. Heads of 40 countries & many global organisations will be coming to Delhi to participate in this event.

organic manure' (FOM) at about Rs 5.5 per kg, excluding the government incentive of Rs 1.5 per kg, to support biogas plants in the country. The government has recently announced the Market Development Assistance (MDA) Scheme, under which the government approved Rs 1,451 crore for promoting organic fertilizers. Under MDA, the bio fertilizer coming out of a biogas plant — technically known as FOM, the producers get Rs 1.5 for each kg, over and above the sale price of FOM. The IBA in a memorandum to the Ministry of Chemical and Fertilizer said that in the initial phase of improving the end-market linkage of FOM, it is imperative for the ministry to administer the fair remunerative market price for FOM. The IBA suggested a 'floor market price' at par with the Urea Retail Prices (presently at Rs 242 per 45 Kg bag), i.e.

Indian Air Force (IAF) contingent departed for Egypt on Sunday to participate in BRIGHT STAR-23 — a biennial multilateral tri-service exercise scheduled to be held at Cairo (West) Air Base — from August 27- September 16. Notably, this is the first time that IAF is participating in BRIGHT STAR-23 which will also see the participation of contingents from the United States of America, Saudi Arabia, Greece and Qatar, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement today. The IAF contingent will consist of five MiG-29, two IL-78, two C-130 and two C-17 aircraft. Personnel from the IAF's Garud Special Forces, as well as those from the Numbers 28, 77, 78 and 81 Squadrons will be participating in the exercise, the statement said. The IAF transport aircraft will also provide airlift to approximately 150 personnel from the Indian Army. The objective of the exercise is to practice planning and execution of joint operations.

press release dated 25 August, BMRCL said this “curtailment of metro services comes in order to facilitate the extensions between Krishnarajapura to Baiyappanahalli and Kengeri to Chellaghatta Metro stations, detailed safety tests needs to carried out on 27.08.2023 (Sunday) requiring longer periods." The train service has been curtailed since 7 am today and the regular services will be available from 1 pm. Further adding, it said that after 1 pm, regular train services will be available from Baiyappanahalli to Kengeri Metro Stations and from Krishnarajapura to Whitefield (Kadugodi) Metro Stations till the end of revenue services i.e., up to 11.00 pm as usual.

Battlegrounds Mobile India) quickly rose to prominence in India after the ban on PUBG Mobile. Despite facing its own ban, the Indian government decided to allow BGMI back into the country with certain modifications around 10 months ago. Similar to other popular battle royale titles like Garena Free Fire, BGMI developers regularly release redeem codes that grant players access to a wide range of enticing rewards and freebies.

B20 Summit LIVE Updates -During his address, EAM Dr S Jaishankar said that the core mandate of the G20 is to promote economic growth and development. -In the session he also said that India was acutely conscious of the absence of voice of the Global South in G20. Mentioning India's concern for the Global South, Jaishanker threw light upon India's global initiatives like International Solar Alliance or the coalition for disaster resilient infrastructure.

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G20 summit, close to 3,500 rooms across big and small hotels in Delhi and Gurgaon have been booked, reported TOI. To cater to the needs of the leaders, over 10,000 hospitality professionals have been instructed to be present across 30 prominent hotels across central and south Delhi, Aerocity and Gurgaon. Delhi Police, Ministry of External Affairs and other embassies have already started security drills almost two months ago, according to TOI quoting a Hyatt Regency Hotel spokesperson. Hotel Arrangements for World Leaders Several luxury hotels across Delhi and other nearby locations have been selected to host the leaders. US President Joe Biden is expected to stay at ITC Maurya while Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to be hosted by Taj Palace. Other hotels such as Shangri La's Eros expected to have UK PM Rishi Sunak and German delegation, The Imperial may host the Australian PM and Indonesian delegation, Taj Mahal to have UAE delegation; Leela Palace expects Saudi Arabia delegation, The Lalit to have Canadian and Japanese delegations, The Claridges expects French president Emmanuel Macron and The Oberoi will host Russian delegation. During the stay, several preparations are in place to give the world leaders a taste of the Indian culture. «Indian musicians, especially the ones good at playing dhol, tabla, sitar, sarod and shehnai, are being signed up for welcoming the guests and also for playing soft music through the day in lobby,» explained a hotel manager. Another hotel's representative explained that from 'organising a traditional Indian welcome with a popular local music or dance performance and signature Indian welcome drinks to stocking the rooms with specially curated amenities, such as Indian coffee, teas,

Europe will be particularly affected. Heat waves of the kind we are currently experiencing are particularly deadly for the elderly, the sick and the poor, the researchers said. The 2003 heat wave, which saw temperatures in Europe reach 47.5 degrees Celsius, was one of the worst natural disasters of recent decades, claiming an estimated 45,000 to 70,000 victims in the space of a few weeks, they said. The researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland found that such heat waves could become the new norm in the coming years. Since 2013, they have been systematically collecting data on daily heat-related excess mortality for 748 cities and communities in 47 countries in Europe, Southeast Asia, Latin America, the US and Canada. The researchers used this dataset to calculate the relationship between the average daily temperature and mortality for all 748 locations. From this, they were able to establish each location's ideal temperature, where excess mortality is at its lowest.

ISRO Chairman S Somanath on Saturday said India is capable of launching more interplanetary missions and the objective of the space agency is the overall progress of the country through the expansion of the space sector.Prime Minister Narendra Modi has long-term vision about the country's space sector and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all ready to implement it, he told reporters at the Thiruvananthapuram international airport Saturday night. Somnath reached the Kerala capital for the first time after the historic success of the moon mission. Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi flew down to Bengaluru directly from Greece, to pay tribute to the ISRO scientists. «As far as we are concerned, not just the soft landing, but the entire aspects of the Chandrayaan-3 were 100 per cent successful. The entire country is proud of it and extending support to us,» he said. An elated Somnath said he and his colleagues were happy and proud to be part of the great achievement of the ISRO and requested people to continue their support in their future endeavours.

Telangana Assembly elections, slated to be held in November-December this year. While the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) is likely to corner the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the high inflation rate, the 'world's costliest' LPG and steep hike in fuel prices, it may come under attack from the latter and also from the Congress over Telangana recording the highest inflation rate consistently among all states. The BJP is likely to hit back at BRS for not reducing Value Added Tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel to pass on the benefits to the customers despite several states slashing VAT. The BJP leaders may also cite the fact that Telangana has been witnessing inflation ratethat is consistently the highest among the states. The Congress is likely to blame the policies of both the BJP and the BRS governments for the price rise. While attacking the BJP over the skyrocketing prices of fuel and LPG, its leaders may also slam the BRS for not reducing VAT on fuel and failing to check the high inflation. According to the Economic Survey 2022-23, Telangana logged the highest inflation rate in the country.

Elon Musk is impressed at the way Indian-origin people have taken over as CEOs of most of the top tech companies, as well as some of the non-tech organisations, and the list is only growing. By holding top positions, the Indian-origin people are earning millions of dollars which puts them among the highest paid CEOs in the US. When the World of Statistics posted on X (formerly Twitter) the list of Indian-origin people at top companies, Musk reacted late on Saturday: «Impressive». His followers reacted, saying «Indians are some of the hardest working people». India is even the «CEO of Moon's South Pole,» a Musk follower chuckled, after the country successfully landed its Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission. Currently, Sanjay Mehrotra is the CEO of Micron Technology; Shantanu Narayen is the CEO of Adobe; Satya Nadella is Chairman and CEO of Microsoft; Sunder Pichai is the CEO of Alphabet and Google; Jay Chaudhry is the CEO of Zscaler which is a cloud security company; Arvind Krishna is the CEO of IBM; Neal Mohan is the CEO of YouTube; and George Kurian is the CEO of NetApp, among the top tech giants. Leena Nair broke all barriers by becoming the first ever Indian-origin global CEO of French luxury fashion house, Chanel.

Chennai in the 1980s might have seemed an unlikely place to sample kvass and kimchi. Yet for one evening every year the Russian drink brewed from bread and the spicy fermented Korean cabbage was available to anyone willing to buy them for the benefit of charity. August 22 marks Madras Day, when the city was founded in 1639. It has grown from a one-day event to a full month celebrating the city’s often overlooked past.

Saurabh Mukherjea, Founder, Marcellus Investment Managers, says “the positive trigger is the China play because the scale of China's unwind is such that I find it hard to believe that it will not trigger broader connections in commodity prices and then on to on to inflationary numbers both for America and for India. The negative one in India's case is that we have got so many elections ahead of us. We got five assembly elections through the winter and then obviously the big one in the summer.” What could be the trigger now for the market? Earnings are good. Inflation is benign. Macro will keep on getting ups and downs here but in general is steady. Flows have been decent. The outlook by corporate India is not that bad. So for markets to move higher, what is next?If I have to pick one positive trigger and one negative trigger, the positive trigger is the China play because the scale of China's unwind is such that I find it hard to believe that it will not trigger broader connections in commodity prices and then on to on to inflationary numbers both for America and for India.

reliance on China for revenues. In 2021 the 200 biggest multinationals in America, Europe and Japan made 13% of their sales in the country, earning $700bn. Tesla is more exposed still, making around a fifth of its sales in China; Qualcomm, a chipmaker, makes a staggering two-thirds.

PM Modi celebrates success of Chandrayaan-3 with ISRO scientists in Bengaluru. In pics A video has gone viral where two news anchors from Pakistan have heaped praises on India and the Chandrayaan-3 mission. The two anchors in Hindi said, "India chand pe pauch gaya hai aur hum beech pe hi phase hue hai. Apni ladhai pe hi pade hue hai. We need to broaden our horizons. Kya visual tha...hume yaha baith ke bohot khushi ho rahi hai. Hum ek jaise dikhte hai magar bohot farak hai dono mulk mein..Hum muqable ki baat karte haine...yeh wo cheez hai jisme muqabla hona chaiye. This is a progressive and healthy competition. (India has reached the moon and we are stuck in our own system and fighting with each other.

NDTV, Tyagi said, she has served the people of the village as a teacher and added, it is important to "control" kids at school. "I am not ashamed. I have served the people of this village as a teacher.