G-20 delegates visit GVMC projects

G-20 delegates visit GVMC projects

Delegates who had arrived for the G-20 Infrastructure Working Group meeting visited various projects of the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) here on Thursday. The delegates had visited Jindal’s Waste-to-Energy Recycling Plant at Kapuluppada, floating solar power project at Mudasarlova and 24X7 drinking water project at Madhavadhara. GVMC Commissioner P. Raja Babu, Additional Commissioner V. … Read more

MoHFW, WHO South-East Asia Regional office organising global conference on digital health – ET HealthWorld

MoHFW, WHO South-East Asia Regional office organising global conference on digital health – ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: Leveraging India’s presidency of the G20 and the prolific actions and commitments of previous presidencies, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the WHO South-East Asia Regional office are organising a two-day global conference on digital health – ‘Taking Universal Health Coverage to the last citizen’ on March 20-21, 2023 in … Read more

Blinken, Lavrov meet briefly as U.S.-Russia tensions soar

Blinken, Lavrov meet briefly as U.S.-Russia tensions soar

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, top center, walks past Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in New Delhi Thursday, March 2, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met briefly Thursday at a meeting of top diplomats from the Group of 20 … Read more

Morning Digest | India makes renewed push for consensus at G20 Foreign Ministers meeting; China says ‘lab leak’ claims hurt U.S. credibility, and more

Morning Digest | India makes renewed push for consensus at G20 Foreign Ministers meeting; China says ‘lab leak’ claims hurt U.S. credibility, and more

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is greeted by an official upon his arrival at the airport in New Delhi, India on March 1, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters India makes renewed push for consensus at G20 Foreign Ministers meeting G20 negotiators met for a second late night on Wednesday to discuss breaking the impasse … Read more

India makes renewed push for consensus at G20 Foreign Ministers meeting

India makes renewed push for consensus at G20 Foreign Ministers meeting

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar meets with Netherlands Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, in New Delhi on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: ANI G20 negotiators met for a second late night on Wednesday to discuss breaking the impasse over a jointly approved document to be released at the … Read more

U.K. Foreign Minister raises issue of BBC tax searches with EAM Jaishnakar

U.K. Foreign Minister raises issue of BBC tax searches with EAM Jaishnakar

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar with U.K. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly during a meeting in New Delhi on March 1, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI British Foreign Minister James Cleverly raised the issue of BBC tax searches with External Affairs Minister (EAM) during a bilateral meeting on Wednesday, the Minister told in an interview. Last … Read more

G20 conference in Ranchi to deliberate on challenges in area of energy

G20 conference in Ranchi to deliberate on challenges in area of energy

Workers prepare Birsa Munda International Airport as part of cleaning and beautification work, ahead of G20 events, in Ranchi, on February 28, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Foreign delegates of G20 major economies will discuss challenges in the area of energy and recommend a future roadmap for cooperation in the field at a conference scheduled … Read more

India wants energy transition on its own terms — without phasing out coal and with more grants

India wants energy transition on its own terms — without phasing out coal and with more grants

India is unlikely to sign a deal with richer nations this year for a just energy transition, as international funding rests on India committing to a timeline to phase out coal, an “unviable” proposition for the country, energy analysts said. The Group of Seven (G7) industrialised nations, together with Norway, Denmark and the European Union, … Read more

India should send stronger message to Russia, use G20 Presidency: Ukrainian MP

India should send stronger message to Russia, use G20 Presidency: Ukrainian MP

G20 India logo | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma India, which was very “well placed” with its economic might and special relationship with Russia, should send another strong message to Russia as well as use its G20 Presidency to bring world leaders, including Ukraine, together for a “frank and open discussion” on the way forward in … Read more

Eye on the future at Lucknow G20 meet: Cataract care via WhatsApp – ET HealthWorld

Eye on the future at Lucknow G20 meet: Cataract care via WhatsApp – ET HealthWorld

Lucknow: Logy.AI, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled healthcare platform has developed an AI and Whatsapp-based system which will help detect eye diseases, such as Cataract. This new technology mode was recently displayed in the exhibition held at the G20 summit in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow. Priyaranjit Ghosh, co-founder of this startup, said that people in rural … Read more