1.British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will meet Joe Biden in Northern Ireland next week when the U.S. president flies in to take part in events to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday peace accord.Having helped broker the 1998 deal, the United States remains an influential voice in Northern Ireland's politics and has sought to protect the peace from the strains caused by Britain's exit from the European Union.-ndtv.com
2.Defending their search for the source of the Covid-19 virus, Chinese health officials on Saturday hit out at the World Health Organisation after the global health body’s director-general said Beijing should have shared genetic information earlier.The director of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shen Hongbing, said the WHO comments were “offensive and disrespectful”.- https://www.indiatoday.in/
3.India has "disengaged" from trade talks with Britain after accusing it of failing to condemn the Sikh extremist group that attacked the Indian High Commission in London last month, The Times reported on Monday, citing British government sources.-ndtv.com
4.The G20 expert group on reforming multilateral development banks (MDB), jointly steered by Harvard University president emeritus Lawrence Summers and Fifteenth Finance Commission Chairperson N.K. Singh, is slated to hold its first in-person meeting in Washington this week. The group’s mandate includes an evaluation of the scale of funding ramp-up needed for institutions like the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to be able to finance member countries’ needs.-thehindu.com
5.NEW DELHI: India’s announcement of dates for the G20 meeting in Srinagar came despite opposition from Pakistan and also China, which had last month also objected to another. While Pakistan had lobbied its allies in G20, like Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and indeed China, to stop the meeting in Srinagar, Beijing had reacted to a meeting of the group in Arunachal last month by releasing “invented names” for 11 more places in the state to reinforce its claim over the region.-The times of India
6.Group and International Monetary Fund and other G20 meetings in Washington. Sitharaman will be attending meetings with Finance Ministers and Central Bankers from across the world. Sitharaman and Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das will jointly chair the 2nd G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, FMCBG meeting on 12 April (Tuesday).-livemint.com
7.The single-day count of COVID-19 cases in Maharashtra went up by 246 in the last 24 hours to reach 788 on Sunday with one fatality, as per state health department data.The new additions raised the cumulative tally of the cases in the state to 1,49,929 and the death count to 1,48,459.Maharashtra reported 926 COVID-19 cases and three fatalities on Friday and 542 on Saturday. Mumbai city recorded 211 fresh cases on Sunday, making it the sixth consecutive day that the city saw 200 plus infections.-ndtv.com
8.The vehicle number plate P7 was sold for record 55 million dirhams at ‘Most Noble Numbers’ auction in Dubai.Starting at a bid of 15 million dirhams in the action on Saturday night, the bids rose within seconds to over 30 million dirhams. The bid stagnated for several minutes at 35 million dirhams which was bid by Pavel Valeryevich Durov, the French-Emirati businessman, the founder and owner of the app Telegram. It has set a Guinness World Record for the most expensive number plate in the world.-- https://www.tribuneindia.com/
9.Sufi and heritage sites are among dozens of new destinations being developed in Jammu and Kashmir to boost tourism and open up new economic avenues for the people, lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha said while inaugurating Jammu division’s first tulip garden at Sanasar in Ramban district on Saturday.-Times of
10.India received 6.19 million foreign tourists in 2022 compared with 1.52 million in 2021, tourism minister G Kishan Reddy said. “There were 10.93 million Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTAs) in India during the pre-pandemic year of 2019," Reddy said in a written reply in Rajya Sabha. Reddy said that the ministry under its schemes such as Swadesh Darshan and Pilgrimage Rejuvenation And Spiritual Augmentation Drive , or PRASAD, provides financial assistance to state governments and union territories for the development of tourism-related infrastructure to enrich tourism experience for the visitors.-livemint.com
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