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Ashwini Vaishnaw, on Saturday highlighted the three priority areas selected by the Indian presidency for the Digital Economy Working Group Addressing the G20 Digital Economy Ministers' Meeting, here Vaishnaw said that the three priority areas selected by the Indian presidency for the Digital Economy Working Group are — Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), Security in Digital Economy and Digital Scaling. The Union minister said that these three reflect the priorities of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. These priorities align with the broader global agenda of fostering a digital economy that is secure, inclusive, and equitable for all, he said.

Narendra Modi highlighted India's role as a testing ground for innovative solutions during the G20 Digital Economy Working Group Ministers Meet. He introduced "Bhashini," an AI-powered language translation platform, aimed at promoting digital inclusion across India's diverse languages. He emphasized India's digital infrastructure as a scalable, secure, and inclusive solution for global challenges.

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Modi on 19 August said that it is important to build consensus in order to secure digital economy, cautioning the G20 representatives against the security threat challenges to digital economy as it spreads globally. "We in G20 have a unique opportunity to lay a foundation of an inclusive, prosperous and secure global digital future.

Narendra Modi on Friday highlighted India's significant digital progress and its potential to serve as a testing ground for innovative solutions with global applicability while virtually addressing the G20 Digital Economy Ministers’ Meet. "With such diversity, India is an ideal lab for solutions.

The volatile world of cryptocurrency has once again captured global attention, with prices experiencing a sharp downturn. As Bitcoin, the leading digital currency, faces a significant price drop, many are left speculating on its future trajectory. 

Financial inclusion is a critical driver of economic development, and embedded finance as-a-service has emerged as a powerful tool to deepen financial inclusion in India's new age economy with over USD 5bn in market size. The growing and prominent role of fintech in leveraging embedded finance to unlock new value chains, empower underserved populations, and drive economic growth is undisputed. However, despite significant progress, India still faces challenges in achieving comprehensive financial inclusion.

Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said India is an ideal testing lab for solutions and underlined that the solutions that succeed in the country can be easily applied anywhere in the world. In his virtual address at the G20 Digital Economy Working Group Ministers Meet here in the city, the Prime Minister said India's digital public infrastructure offers a scalable, secure and inclusive solution for global challenges. «India is an incredibly diverse country.

Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday addressed the G-20 Digital Innovation Alliance in Bengaluru and said that over the past decade, India's entrepreneurial landscape has undergone a remarkable transformation. «Over the past decade, India's entrepreneurial landscape has undergone a remarkable transformation. With just 500 start-ups a decade ago, today we proudly stand with over 100,000 startups and 108 unicorns.

lowest point since 2016. That lull snapped Thursday, when Bitcoin plunged more than 8% in the space of a few hours to a two-month low of $25,314 late in the New York day. The slump sparked a broad decline across all of crypto, leading to more than $1 billion in liquidations and putting Bitcoin on pace for its worst week since November and crypto exchange FTX’s collapse.

G20 Ministerial Meet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India's digital public Infrastructure offers scaleable, secure and inclusive solution for global challenges. We have created global public digital goods depository — India Stacks — to ensure no one is left behind, he said.

Melting glaciers could create new ecosystems covering an area between the size of Nepal and Finland by the year 2100, researchers said. Glacial area outside the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets could be halved because of human-caused climate change under a high-emissions scenario, they said in a study published in the journal Nature. This glacial melting could cause a rapid ecological shift as novel ecosystems develop to fill emerging new habitat, they wrote. However, analyses of this change at a global scale are lacking, they said. Jean-Baptiste Bosson, from the Conservatory of Natural Areas of Haute-Savoie, France, and colleagues used a global glacier evolution model to examine the predicted twenty-first century trajectory of 650,000 square kilometres (sqkm) of glaciers found outside the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. Deglaciation, or glacial retreat, will continue to occur at a similar rate regardless of the climate scenario until 2040, the modelling predicted using glacier outlines, digital elevation models of subglacial terrain and climatic data.

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G20 summit in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The G20 Health Ministers’ meeting under G20 India Presidency is being held in Gandhinagar, Gujarat from 17-19 August. Earlier on Friday, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the WHO praised India for advancing health coverage and schemes.

Bitdeer Technologies Group (NASDAQ: BTDR), a leading technology company in the cryptocurrency mining community headquartered in Singapore, announced its unaudited mining and operations updates for July 2023 on August 7, 2023.

Bitcoin reached an almost two-month low as risk aversion weighs on the cryptocurrency market with global government bond yields climbing to the highest in about 15 years. «When you throw in what is happening in the bond market, it becomes easy for Bitcoin prices to soften,» Edward Moya, senior market analyst at Oanda, said in a note.

A Russian analyst has claimed that the digital ruble, the nation’s CBDC, will bring no benefits to ordinary citizens.

Also read: Hawai Wildfires: US President Joe Biden to visit Maui disaster site with aid in hand Ollie Williams, the operator of Yellowknife's Cabin Radio digital station, reported that individuals had resorted to sharing screenshots of information on Facebook since they couldn't share news feed links. In response, a Meta spokesperson communicated via email that the company had activated the "Safety Check" feature on Facebook, allowing users to inform others of their safety during natural disasters or crises.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump plans to skip the first Republican primary debate next week and instead sit for an online interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the New York Times reported, citing people briefed on the matter.

PD Vaghela, chairman of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), said a joint committee of regulators comprising the Reserve Bank of India, the Securities and Exchange Board of India, and the ministries of home and consumer affairs is also trying to combat phishing and digital fraud. “We are working with the ministries of education, health, MSME and agriculture for development of 5G use cases…,” Vaghela said at the fourth edition of the ETTelecom Digital Telco Summit, 2023 on Friday. “The ministries will bring specific domain knowledge while we will enable coordination between telecom companies, sector experts and resolve regulatory issues.” He said the Trai Center for Studies & Research is exploring collaborative efforts with academic and research institutions to drive development of India-specific use cases and will start working with the respective verticals from September. To complement these efforts, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), too, is working with several central ministries to use 5G for driving tech convergence across industry sectors.

Bitstamp, one of the world's oldest cryptocurrency exchanges, has announced a suspension of trading for seven cryptocurrencies in the United States, effective from August 29, 2023. The affected cryptocurrencies include AXS, CHZ, MANA, MATIC, NEAR, SAND, and SOL.