Rio de Janeiro: G20 leaders met in Rio de Janeiro on Monday for talks on climate change, ongoing wars in Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon, and more, at a forum that highlighted differences between world powers but also delivered some successes. Here are five key takeaways from the summit: No climate breakthrough Hopes were high that G20 leaders would jumpstart stalled UN climate talks taking place in Azerbaijan. In their final declaration, however, they merely recognized the need for “substantially scaling up climate finance from billions to trillions from all sources.” Crucially, they did not say who would provide the trillions.…
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New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi reviewed progress in the disengagement of troops in Demchok and Depsang in eastern Ladakh in a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit. It was the first high-level engagement between the two sides after completion of the disengagement process in the two friction points along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the mountainous region. After his talks with Mr. Wang, Mr. Jaishankar said that both sides also exchanged views on the next steps in the India-China bilateral ties. “On the sidelines of the G20 Summit…
New Delhi: India’s most advanced communications satellite was successfully lifted off into space by Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket which launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA. At the stroke of one minute past midnight on Tuesday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s most sophisticated communications satellite, which will provide broadband services in remote areas and in-flight Internet in passenger aircraft, set off for its 34-minute journey into outer space on board Elon Musk-owned SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket on its 396 th flight. “Launch successful,” said Radhakrishnan Durairaj, Chairman and Managing Director of New Space India Limited, the commercial…
Team Goemkarponn BAMBOLIM: By early 2025, the Goa Medical College (GMC) will have a center of excellence in skull base surgery for difficult procedures involving the base of the skull that are performed through the nose using an endoscope. According to Dr. Shivanand Bandekar, dean of GMC, the state government has already approved the Center’s equipment procurement. There are some malignancies in the base of the skull, according to Dr. Ponraj Sundaram, a professor and chairman of the GMC neurosurgery department. Because the brain must be retracted and the surgical access corridor is quite small, these are highly different to…
Team Goemkarponn PANAJI: Speaker of the Goa legislative assembly and prominent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ramesh Tawadkar expressed his displeasure with the state’s current state of affairs citing a number of issues that have been covered by the media over the past few days. He also said he was not happy with the performance of some of the state’s cabinet ministers. “I wonder if some ministers are truly serving the public interest or just their own interests when I witness particular occurrences. “When ministers and chief ministers only work for themselves, what will happen to the people and the…
Team Goemkarponn BAGA: Susan Ainemukama, a 28-year-old Ugandan national, was arrested by the Calangute Police for suspicious activity in the Baga area. Ainemukama was unable to present legitimate travel documentation and was unable to give adequate justifications for her presence in the region during an initial investigation. The police filed an offense under the Foreigners Order, 1948 (Section 7 (1) (3)) and the Foreigners Act, 1946 (Section 14) after she failed to follow the law. On November 18, she was subsequently taken into custody.
Team Goemkarponn PANAJI: An individual has been charged for cheating Goan taxi operators by posing as a Security In-charge at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). Shirang Manesh Javal has been recognized as the accused. “It has been three days since we filed the complaint,” one cab driver told reporters. “We told the Police Inspector as well. The individual even tried to discredit the Prime Minister himself while claiming to be the PMO’s security chief. We have asked the Police Inspector to act immediately and have supplied his phone number in our complaint,’ they said According to another taxi driver, the…







