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G20 Summit LIVE Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the Business 20 (B20) Summit India 2023, the official G20 dialogue forum with the global business community, in Delhi on Sunday. As per the Prime Minister’s Office, the Summit has brought policymakers, business leaders, and experts from across the world to deliberate and discuss the B20 India Communique. The B20 India Communique includes 54 recommendations and 172 policy actions for submission to G20, it said. Prime Minister also addressed the 104th edition of his monthly radio programme ‘Mann ki Baat.
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Key EventsPrime Minister Narendra Modi, at the B20 event, said he suggests that a day in a year should be observed as ‘international consumer care day’.
Addressing the B20 event, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “Sustainability is both an opportunity and business model. One such example is that UN is celebrating this year as ‘International Year of Millets’. Millets are superfoods, environment friendly and support small farmers, so it’s a win-win model.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “I am sure the B20 summit has paved the way for collective transformation. A connected world isn’t just about connection through technology but it is also about shared purpose, planet, prosperity, and future.”
VIDEO | "I am sure the B20 summit has paved the way for collective transformation. A connected world isn't just about connection through technology but it is also about shared purpose, planet, prosperity, and future," says PM Modi at the B20 summit. pic.twitter.com/vfie1tS5zS
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) August 27, 2023
Speaking at the B20 event, the prime minister said, “We must focus on consumer care rather than consumer rights. If we talk about consumer care then issues related to consumer rights will be solved by itself.”
Ahead of the G20 Summit, controversial Pro Khalistani slogans appeared at multiple metro stations and nearby areas in Delhi including Shivaji Park, MadiPur, Paschim Vihar, Udyog Nagar, Maharaja Surajmal Stadium, Government Sarvodya Bal Vidyalaya Nangloi, Punjabi Bagh and Nangloi Metro Station on Sunday.
Prime Minister Narendra at the B20 event said, “The world is excited about AI (Artificial intelligence). AI also needs a similar approach. Ethical considerations are needed amid the excitement for AI. Skilling and re-skilling… algorithms and their impact are concerning. Such topics need to be solved collectively. Global business communities and governments need to ensure that ethical AI gets pace.”
Speaking at the B20 Summit, the prime minister said, “We need integrated approach to deal with issues related to cryptocurrencies.”
“The world can never look at the global supply chain in the same way. Can a supply chain be called efficient when it gets disrupted during the time of need? India is the solution to this problem. India has an important role to play in efficient and trusted global supply chain,” said PM Modi at the B20 Summit in Delhi.
The prime minister said, “About 13.5 crore people have been lifted out of poverty in last 5 years”.
Addressing the B20 Summit India 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “We are focusing on green energy; trying to replicate success of solar energy in green hydrogen.”
Speaking about India’s contribution to the world during the Covid-19 pandemic, PM Modi said, “India provided medicines and increased production of anti-Covid vaccines during the pandemic.”
India has become face of Industry 4.0 revolution; future of global growth dependent on future of business, the prime minister said.
Speaking at the B20 Summit India 2023, the prime minister said that “We have invited the African Union to become a permanent member of G20.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that festive season began in India when it’s third moon mission, Chandrayaan-3 successfully landed on the moon on August 23.
Addressing the summit, PM Modi said that, “You (business leaders) have come to India at the time where there is a celebration mode in the country.”
VIDEO | "You (business leaders) have come to India at the time where there is a celebration mode in the country," says PM Modi at B20 summit in Delhi.
(Source: Third Party) pic.twitter.com/KUr8tL2h64
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) August 27, 2023
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses B20 summit after India hands over B20 presidency to Brazil.
In the true spirit of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’, 101 musicians and vocalists from G20 member nations and invited countries came together here in Uttar Pradesh and dazzled an audience with a spellbinding orchestral performance.
Titled ‘Sur Vasudha’, the performance by the G20 Orchestra was put together under India’s presidency of the influential grouping on Saturday night to mark the closing of the Culture Ministers’ Meeting in the city.
The cast featured 61 musicians and vocalists from India and 41 musicians and vocalists from G20 nations and invitee countries. The artistes brought their traditional musical instruments and they played in perfect harmony in Benares — the ancient city of music. A Brazilian conga met an Indian mridangam, a Scottish bagpipe played in symphony with an Indian shehnai, Italian violins played along with the sarangi, the English flute in accord with the bansuri, and the French horn synced with the strains of the India sitar.
With high demand coming from the G20 summit in India and tourists coming to metros to witness happenings related to the event, hotel occupancy and room rates are back to pre-pandemic times, according to Hotel Association of India Secretary General MP Bezbaruah.
Due to the existing demand-supply situation, room rates have been sometimes a little higher than the pre-pandemic, he told PTI in an interview.
“I understand there is very big demand at this time from not only G20 but also from tourists and people who are coming to the metropolitan cities to see all this happening in the cities and for that demand is quite high,” Bezbaruah said.
Ahead of the upcoming G20 leaders’ summit, Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena takes stock of preparations and cleanliness in the national capital.
#WATCH | Ahead of the upcoming G20 summit, Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena takes stock of preparations and cleanliness
(Visuals from Lutyens' Delhi) pic.twitter.com/QRJUcffyKi
— ANI (@ANI) August 27, 2023
Talking about the success of Har Ghar Tiranga campaign, the prime minister said that every citizen’s efforts played a key role in turning ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ into ‘Har Mann Tiranga’.
Praising the performance of Indian players at the World University Games, PM Modi said that a total of 26 medals were won by the Indian players, of which 11 were Gold medals.
G20 Summit LIVE Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the Business 20 (B20) Summit India 2023, the official G20 dialogue forum with the global business community, in Delhi on Sunday. As per the Prime Minister’s Office, the Summit has brought policymakers, business leaders, and experts from across the world to deliberate and discuss the B20 India Communique. The B20 India Communique includes 54 recommendations and 172 policy actions for submission to G20, it said. Prime Minister also addressed the 104th edition of his monthly radio programme ‘Mann ki Baat’.
Established in 2010, B20 is among the most prominent engagement groups in G20 with companies and business organisations as participants.
With leaders of 19 countries, the European Union, and a host of other international organisations arriving in Delhi on September 7 for the final leg of G20 Leaders’ Summit, at least 160 domestic flights to and from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport have been cancelled between September 8 and 10 owing to traffic restrictions and high security in the capital.
Further, security has also been enhanced in Delhi. Today, Delhi Police will hold a ‘carcade’ rehearsal from various points to Pragati Maidan ahead of the G20 Summit scheduled in the national capital next month. Traffic will be regulated at several places from 9 am to 12.30 pm to facilitate the rehearsals, the police said.