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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has given the go-ahead for 3,000 visas for young professionals from India to work in the UK each year. The British government said India is the first visa-national country to benefit from such a scheme, highlighting the strength of the UK-India Migration and Mobility Partnership agreed last year.

"Today the UK-India Young Professionals Scheme was confirmed, offering 3,000 places to 18-30-year-old degree-educated Indian nationals to come to the UK to live and work for up to two years," the UK Prime Minister`s Office said in a tweet.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Bali on Monday for the G20 Summit and bilateral meetings on its sidelines with key leaders attending this annual conference of the world's major economies.

“Halo Indonesia. Arrived in Bali to take part in the G20 Summit. I look forward to having discussions with world leaders on global issues,” Modi tweeted in the Indonesian language.

The G20 summit on November 15-16 in Bali will see PM Narendra Modi and other leaders participating in three important sessions, including on food and energy security, digital transformation and health, said the government ahead of the PM’s departure to Indonesia.

Official sources said Modi will have around 20 engagements during his two-day stay in Bali where, as the next Chair, India will look to speak for the developing countries, which are battling some of the worst consequences of the conflict in Europe, and steer the agenda in a “balanced” manner.

Following through its order in May directing the release of life convict A G Perarivalan in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case by invoking its powers under Article 142 of the Constitution, the Supreme Court on Friday used the extraordinary jurisdiction to extend the same to six others convicted for assassinating the former Prime Minister and ordered that they be also set free forthwith.

Drawing similarity with Perarivalan, who was directed to be released on May 18 by the court after serving nearly 31 years, a bench of Justices B R Gavai and B V Nagarathna said that other convicts — Robert Payas, Jayakumar, T Suthendraraja, Ravichandran, Nalini and Murugan — are on same footing as they all also spent more than 30 years in jail and their conduct in prison was satisfactory and they all pursued various studies and completed courses from inside jail.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led Delhi government has accused lieutenant governor (LG) VK Saxena of ‘derailing’ the governance of the national capital by encouraging the “recalcitrance of civil servants”. In two separate affidavits filed in Supreme Court on Wednesday by Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, the Delhi government listed various issues faced by them vis-a-vis bureaucracy.

The Delhi government alleged that LG’s office has “derailed” the governance process in the national capital “in complete disregard of constitutional commitments to representative democracy and federalism”.

It further claimed that LG Saxena is “running a parallel system of governance in the NCT of Delhi” by abrogating to himself the powers by constantly trying to appropriate the executive powers of the elected government.