G20 meeting in New Delhi

 

 

G20 meeting in New Delhi

Angry cardboard figures to keep troublesome monkeys away from the G20  

Authorities in New Delhi, India, have begun placing cardboard figures representing angry langur monkeys ahead of the upcoming G20 meeting, the BBC reports. This in the hope that it will keep the smaller rhesus monkeys away when the world leaders visit the capital.  

The authorities have made an effort to clean up the cityscape, including through newly painted walls and newly planted trees, and do not want the monkeys to destroy.  

In order for the cardboard figures to appear real, they have also brought in more than 30 voice actors whose task will be to sound like langurs.  

Illustration image. Altaf Qadri / AP 

Many homeless in the wake of Modi's "beautification project"  

Thousands of people in India's capital, New Delhi, have had their homes destroyed in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's attempt to paint the city ahead of this weekend's G20 summit, according to the AP.  

Since January, people in poorer areas have been evicted and entire shantytowns have been razed to the ground. Many of them are now homeless, writes the news agency, as a result of a "beautification project" that costs the equivalent of roughly 1.3 billion kroner.  

According to a 2011 census, there were then 47,000 homeless people in the city, which has more than 20 million inhabitants. According to activists, the real figure is at least three times as high.  

Xi Jinping Gianluigi Guercia / AP  

G20 meeting in New Delhi Sources: Xi nods G20 meeting for the first time  

Chinese President Xi Jinping does not plan to visit the G20 meeting in New Delhi next week, writes the Financial Times, citing sources.  

If Xi Jinping does not participate, it will be the first time he skips the meeting, and it will be a further blow to an already divided forum, the newspaper writes. 

Last week, the Chinese leader actively participated in the much talked about meeting of the Brics cou