G20 summit
24 Sep 2023
Great admiration for Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India for recognising the need to have a representation of the African continent in the Group of Twenties (G20), in the last G20 summit held in India.
16 Sep 2023
At the just concluded gathering of G20 leaders in India, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the UK’s biggest single financial contribution to helping the world’s most vulnerable people adapt to and mitigate the impact of climate change.
10 Sep 2023
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his entire delegation were forced to extend their stay in New Delhi for the G20 summit by an extra day Sunday when his aircraft broke down, Canadian officials confirmed.
10 Sep 2023
World leaders walked barefoot through puddles Sunday to pay their respects to revered Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi, after monsoon downpours dampened Prime Minister Narendra Modi's set-piece G20 programme. Modi welcomed his guests to the site where the apostle of non-violence was cremated in January 1948, the day after he was gunned down by a…
10 Sep 2023
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s G20 Summit visit to India, on the special invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is coming almost exactly 61 years after Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of the Republic of India, visited Nigeria.
9 Sep 2023
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted arriving world leaders for Saturday's G20 summit in New Delhi, television broadcasts showed.
8 Sep 2023
US President Joe Biden was welcomed warmly by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday ahead of a G20 summit in New Delhi, but journalists were blocked from covering the key meeting. Media access to such bilateral encounters on the sidelines of major summits like the G20 is always tightly controlled, but it is rarely…
5 Sep 2023
India was buzzing with speculation Tuesday over rumoured plans to scrap official usage of the country's English name after a state-issued invitation sent to world leaders referred to it as "Bharat".
2 Sep 2023
President Bola Tinubu is attending the G20 Summit holding from Sept. 9 to Sept. 10 in New Delhi, India to attract private capital for the development of the nation’s critical infrastructure.
28 Aug 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin will skip the G20 summit in India next month and will send his foreign minister instead, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office said Monday.
27 Aug 2023
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Sunday for the African Union to be made a G20 member, while also pitching his country as the solution to supply chain woes ahead of the bloc's summit in New Delhi next month.
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