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Billionaires Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani set to attend G20 summit dinner

NEW DELHI, Sept 6 (Reuters) – India’s richest businessmen, led by rivals Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani, will join G20 leaders at a dinner in the capital on Saturday, as the South Asian nation showcases its position as the world’s fastest growing major economy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sought to wield leadership of the G20 grouping of the world’s most powerful economies to promote India as a destination for trade and investment, particularly as China’s economy slows. U.S. President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Japanese

President Joe Biden to focus on World Bank reform, new funding at G20 in New Delhi

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WASHINGTON, Sept 5 (Reuters) – President Joe Biden will focus on reforming the World Bank and urging other multilateral development banks to boost lending for climate change and infrastructure projects during the G20 leaders summit in India, the White House said on Tuesday. “That’s one of our main focuses heading into the G20: delivering on an agenda fundamentally reshaping and scaling up the multilateral development banks, especially the World Bank,” White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters. The Biden administration is pushing the World Bank, founded as World War Two drew to a close to alleviate poverty, as

Prime Minister uses the G20 summit to advertise his global reach and court voters at home

NEW DELHI (AP) — Major roads in New Delhi are teeming with giant posters and billboards announcing India’s presidency of this week’s G20 summit of the Group of 20 nations. And one leader’s picture — smiling benignly from every traffic circle — stands out from the rest: Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi is also on the front page of major newspapers, and Indian TV channels are flashing his picture, accompanied by the Hindi word “Vishwaguru” — a leader of the world. In public speeches, his ministers are touting him as a steward of a surging India. It is an unabashed

Arun Kumar Sinha, SPG Director passes away

New Delhi [India], September 6 (ANI): Director of the Special Protection Group (SPG), Arun Kumar Sinha, passed away at a hospital in Gurugram early Wednesday, an official said. He was 61 and had been unwell for the past few months. Sinha was a 1987 batch Kerala cadre IPS Officer and serving as SPG Director since 2016. He was recently given an extension in the service. The Special Protection Group (SPG) was raised in 1985 with the intention to provide proximate security cover to the Prime Minister, former Prime Ministers and their immediate family members. Later, their mandate was amended and

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