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UK will continue to work closely with India: UK envoy ANI 15 Jun 2021, 00:37 GMT+10 New Delhi [India], June 14 (ANI): United Kingdom will continue to work with India as a joint force on various global issues including in the run-up to the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, that is slated to be held later this year, acting British High Commissioner to India Jan Thompson said on Monday. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had earlier conveyed his happiness over the participation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the just concluded 47th annual Group of Seven G-...

The Group of Seven (G7) met at Cornwall, United Kingdom. To understand the global significance of this meeting, it might be appropriate to invert the old adage. In this case, the takeaway is that more things remain the same, the more they change. In other words, behind the apparent continuity of old habits and actions of this grouping of powerful nations, there are significant departures and advancements. The G7 originated from a meeting of finance ministers in March 1973. Later that year, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, announced an oil embargo on several Western countries...

Lamenting at PM Modi's 'virtual' presence at the G7 meeting held at Cornwall, Congress MP P Chidambaram on Monday, said that India was a COVID-19 outlier

PM Modi made the remarks in a virtual address at an outreach session of a summit of the G7 richest democracies which was held in the British seaside resort of Cornwall

Former Union finance minister P Chidambaram said that PM Modi was the only guest not physically present at the G7 Outreach meeting, highlighting that India is the "most infected and least vaccinated country" against Covid-19.