Ivanka sits in for US President, shares table with world leaders at G20 Summit

The incident fuelled long-standing allegations of nepotism against the US leader, who has put family members in top White House positions.

Modi seeks UK's help in return of economic offenders like Vijay Mallya

External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson said Prime Minister asked for UK's 'cooperation for return of escaped Indian economic offenders'.

One thing that one can assume is that the two were speaking German, a language that Putin speaks fluently.

IX Jinping pressed the BRICS members to unswervingly build an open world economy, champion multilateralism and promote common development.

The bilateral talks came on the sidelines of the G20 summit where leaders of the world's top economies are gathered.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, said separately that Trump 'accepted' Putin's denials of any involvement in the US election.

The G20 nations said border agencies will strengthen cooperation to detect travel for terrorist purposes.

The meeting is significant as it comes after a Chinese official said the ‘atmosphere’ was ‘not right’ for talks between Modi and Xi Jinping.

Narendra Modi has bilateral meetings lined up with various leaders, including from Japan, South Korea and Vietnam.

China has praised India on the sideline meet of the G20 summit among BRICS leaders on Friday.