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Kempegowda International Airport are likely to face inconvenience in booking cabs due to the Bengaluru bandh protest on September 11. “Due to the one-day protest called by private transport vehicle association on September 11, 2023, there might be disruption in the operation of taxis, maxi cabs, private buses & auto rickshaws,” said Bengaluru airport on Social media platform X. It advised passengers to plan their travel to and from the airport accordingly. The Federation of the Karnataka State Private Transport Associations has called for a 'bandh' seeking a ban on bike taxis, and urging the government to extend the Shakti scheme — that offers free bus rides to women on state-run transport buses — to private buses as well, among other demands. The private transporters have claimed that they have been negatively impacted by the Shakti scheme and that the state government has not fulfilled their demands despite repeated discussions. About 7 to10 lakh vehicles including autos, taxis, airport taxis, maxi cabs, goods vehicles, school vehicles, also stage carriages, contract carriages and corporate buses, will go off the roads tomorrow, S Nataraj Sharma, president of the federation said. Federation office bearers have said that they have organised a protest march from Sangolli Rayanna circle to Freedom Park in the city as part of the bandh. The Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) will run more bus trips and services in the city and also to Kempegowda International Airport on Monday to mitigate the inconvenience caused to the public by the bandh. Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy had recently said that the government was open to talks with the federation and is also making preparations to ensure that the

India’s G20 presidency will address some of the key labour related issues including the low female labour force participation rate, Richard Samans, the G20 Sherpa of the International Labour Organisation said. In an interview with Yogima Seth Sharma, he said multilateral institutions should help India and other developing countries to build capacities to provide decent work and social protection to its workers.

Ind vs Pak, Asia Cup 2023: The high-voltage India vs Pakistan match is disrupted by high-intensity rains. While the precipitation has stopped now, the match is not expected to resume anytime soon as the ground staff is trying to fix the wet outfield. It seems like either it will come down to a 20-over clash or the match will be abandoned for today and will resume from the same point on the reserve day, i.e.

Morocco is working to rescue survivors while praying for victims of the country’s strongest earthquake in more than a century

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.

New Delhi: India’s presidency of G20 or the Group of 20 has been able to bring all member countries to the table on the issue of war in Ukraine and brought to the fore the voice of the emerging markets as moderators, said foreign policy experts, highlighting the country's heritage as the voice of reason. The New Delhi Declaration issued on the first day of the two-day G20 Summit set the direction of future negotiations on important economic issues including climate financing which has for the first time put $5.9 trillion number to the green financing requirements for developing countries, reforms in multilateral banks, international taxation and sustainable development.

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and two-time former Punjab Chief Minister, Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday denied meeting Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and termed it as «baseless rumours.» Singh said that the claims that are in circulation on social media are «baseless» and without an «iota of truth». He asserted that he was committed to the Bharatiya Janata Party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Party President JP Nadda. «I have made up my mind forever and will always remain committed to the BJP. At such a stage, you don't look back», he said in a PRO release, adding that «it is the principle of my life that a decision once taken can never be taken back. Amarinder Singh left Congress a year ago and formed his own party, Punjab Lok Congress (PLC), which later merged with the BJP.

G20 Summit in New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday proposed holding a virtual session in November this year to review the subjects proposed during the meeting. "India has the responsibility of G20 presidency till November. In these two days, you (world leaders) have expressed several views and put forward various proposals," Modi said.

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Aditya L1 spacecraft, India's first space-based mission to study the Sun, completed its third earth-bound maneuver successfully in the early hours of Sunday, according to ISRO. The operation was carried out by the space agency's Telemetry, Tracking, and Command Network (ISTRAC). «The third Earth-bound manoeuvre (EBN#3) is successfully completed from ISTRAC, Bengaluru.» «During this operation, ISRO's ground stations in Mauritius, Bengaluru, SDSC-SHAR, and Port Blair tracked the satellite,» the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a post on social media site X (formerly knows as Twitter). The new orbit achieved is 296 km x 71767 km, according to the statement, and the next maneuver is slated for September 15, around 2 a.m. Aditya-L1 is India's first space-based observatory, and it will study the Sun from a halo orbit around the first Sun-Earth Lagrangian point (L1), which is around 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. On September 3 and 5, the first and second earthbound movements were successfully completed.

G20 adopted the New Delhi Declaration unanimously on Saturday, calling for coordinated steps to support the world economy that faces an uncertain outlook, along with expeditious and effective redressal of the debt vulnerabilities of low and middle-income countries. The declaration marked a significant diplomatic success for India's presidency in the face of divisions that had cropped up, especially over the Ukraine war. In the 83-paragraph declaration, the India-led G20 proposed scaling up inclusive action against climate change with a green development pact and sustainable development goals, admitted the African Union in the group, put crypto-asset regulation on the global agenda, and committed to reforming multilateral development banks (MDBs). There were widespread fears the summit may end without a declaration due to divergence over the Ukraine-Russia conflict that shadowed all ministerial meetings before the Leaders' Summit. «History has been created with the adoption of the New Delhi Leaders' Declaration,» said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media site X.

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Shashi Tharoor’s ‘happy to agree with govt’ amid India vs Bharat row: Here’s why Hariprasad further referred to the contribution of community leaders like Janardhana Poojary, S. Bangarappa, and Kagodu Thimmappa, asserting that true social reformists do not need flashy possessions and implying that some individuals who wear luxury watches and traditional attire cannot claim to be true socialists.

Poland’s conservative governing party and the opposition has showered potential voters with promises as the country's political parties revealed their campaign programs before the Oct. 15 parliamentary election

Daniel Khalife came to an end on Saturday morning after the London Metropolitan Police arrested him with the help of the Territorial Support Group. The undercover cops swooped on the fugitive when he was near a canal bridge in Chiswick. The sleuths of the law-enforcing agencies were on tenterhooks since Wednesday morning when the former soldier escaped HMP Wandsworth after hiding under a food delivery van. In the photographs taken from the scene of the arrest, Khalife is seen being held by cops near a bike and a sleeping bag. He is also seen with a cool bag of groceries. In a statement issued on social media site X, the London Metropolitan Police said, “Metropolitan Police officers have arrested Daniel Khalife who escaped from HMP Wandsworth on 6 Sep Officers apprehended him just before 11 am today in the #Chiswick area, and he is currently in police custody We thank the public and media for their support with info and appeals.” Reacting to the arrest of the fugitive, UK Prime Miniter Rishi Sunak told journalists in the Indian capital of New Delhi, “I’m very pleased with the news and my thanks to the police officers for their fantastic work over the past couple of days, but also to the public who came forward with an enormous number of leads to help the police in their inquiries.” Home Minister Chris Philp congratulated the Metropolitan Police for their “rapid and effective” work. Earlier, the London Police announced a reward of GBP 20,000 for information leading to the arrest of Daniel Khalife.

Homeless encampments have been multiplying across Ontario since the pandemic, but experts say this visible symptom of the national housing crisis has been a long time coming.

ALSO READ: Morocco Earthquake: ‘India ready to offer all possible assistance', says PM ModiVideos and pictures shared on social media showed mountains of rubble and dust clouds as walls gave way to the earthquake's intensity. In other posts, frightened locals could be seen fleeing into the street and out of nearby buildings in search of safety.