An elaborate menu has been planned for guests who have been invited to the pre-wedding celebrations of Anant Ambani-Radhika Merchant in Gujarat’s Jamnagar from March 1-3
Anant Ambani, the youngest son of Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani, is all set to tie the knot with Radhika Merchant—the younger daughter of Viren Merchant, the CEO of Encore Healthcare, and entrepreneur Shaila Merchant—next month. Wedding preparations are in full swing. An elaborate menu has been planned for guests who have been invited to the pre-wedding celebrations in Gujarat’s Jamnagar from March 1-3.
According to an India Today report, more than 1,000 guests have been invited to the grand event. Several prominent personalities, including Bill Gates, are on the guest list. According to Bloomberg, Meta Platforms Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is likely to attend the event.
Anant Ambani, the youngest son of Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani, is all set to tie the kno
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ABP News reported that a special team of 65 chefs from Madhya Pradesh’s Indore have been invited for the special occasion. There will be a special focus on Indori food. The cuisines will also include Parsi food to Thai, Mexican and Japanese, apart from pan-Asian dishes at the function.
Over three days, a total of 2,500 dishes will be on the menu and none of them will be repeated during the grand event.
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Breakfast will include over 75 options, more than 225 types of dishes are included in lunch, 275 types of dishes in dinner and 85 types of items are included in midnight meals. Midnight meal will be served from 12 midnight to 4 am. There is also a special provision for vegan dishes for the guests.
Why Jamnagar as wedding venue?
In an interview with CNBC-TV18, Anant Ambani discussed the reasons behind choosing Jamnagar as the wedding venue. Anant Ambani said, “My grandmother is from Jamnagar. My mother has built the whole city. They have built the whole thing brick by brick. I have spent a lot of time here as a child. Mumbai is my home, but my heart is in Jamnagar. My parents and grandmother also suggested that we pick Jamnagar as the venue. It also gives me
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WTO enforces new rule for simplifying services trade
Countries also batted for the need to reduce plastic trade and fossil fuel subsidies
NEW DELHI : New Delhi: The 13th Ministerial Conference (MCA 13) of the World Trade Organization on Tuesday announced new rules to streamline the international trade in services.
These regulations, which apply on a Most Favored Nation (MFN) basis, aim to make authorization processes more transparent and accessible, with commitments to gender equality.
The reduction in barriers to the services trade could have a substantial economic impact, particularly benefiting poorer countries, and emerging economies like India that are driven by services, experts said.
The regulations are a response to the bureaucratic challenges faced by businesses in cross-border service trade, aiming to simplify procedures and promote equal opportunities for service suppliers worldwide.
“While details of the Agreement are still awaited, the new agreement looks like plurilateral agreement, where not everyone is a party. India and South Africa have not signed this Agreement. WTO, being the top multilateral trade body should rather focus on core issues of interest to all members and not of a few,” said Ajay Srivastava, the founder of Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI).
Meanwhile, global leaders at the meeting, being held in Abu Dhabi, on Tuesday argued for the need to reduce the trade in plastics citing greenhouse emissions from its use. They also emphasized the need to rationalize, phase out or eliminate harmful fossil fuel subsidies through existing or new mechanisms.
The global trade in plastics reached over $1.2 trillion during 2022, as per UN data, with the agency predicting that 19% of greenhouse gas emissions would come from plastics by 2040.
As many as 78 members — excluding India — are participating in the Plastics Pollution Dialogue, representing 85% of the global trade volume.
The Dialogue on Plastic Pollution and Environmentally Sustainable Plastics Trade (DPP) seeks to get WTO members to reduce plastics pollution and promote environmentally sustainable trade in plastics.
During the dialogue, members of the participating countries stressed increasing transparency of trade flows of plastics, given that single-use plastics, plastic films and hard-to-recycle plastics as well as those embedded in traded goods are not captured by trade data.
Though India is not part of the group, the country has taken several measures to reduce plastic usage, including imposing a ban on single-use plastic in 2022. As things stand, India is the fifth-highest generator of plastic waste in the world.
At the conference, 49 members, excluding big economies like India, the US and China, also discussed a fossil fuel subsidy reform (FFSR) initiative.
The initiative builds on the WTO members’ commitments under Sustainable Development Goal 12(c) of the 2030 Agenda and in the context of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
It also contributes to efforts to transition from fossil fuels in energy systems.
Total fossil fuel subsidies amounted to about $7 trillion, or about 7.1% of global GDP in 2022, according to a working paper released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last year.
While India ranked fourth among the top five nations in fossil fuel subsidies with around $350 billion, China occupied the top place, followed by the US and Russia. The European Union and Japan shared the fifth spot.
While the G20 countries have committed to reducing fossil fuel subsidies to achieve the goals of energy security and climate protection, emerging economies like India rely largely on fossil fuels for a large chunk of their energy needs.
India has pledged to reach net zero by 2070 at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow in 2021, which means it will be able to balance the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) it produces with the amount removed from the atmosphere.
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