{"id":487494,"date":"2023-09-08T14:11:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T08:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=487494"},"modified":"2023-09-08T14:11:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T08:41:08","slug":"imf-chief-kristalina-georgieva-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/imf-chief-kristalina-georgieva-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"G20 Summit: IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva dances with folk dancers at Delhi airport| Watch here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>IMF Chairman and Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva arrived in India&#8217;s capital on Thursday to take part in the highly anticipated G20 Summit. She was welcomed with open arms as she arrived at the New Delhi airport and was entertained with a spectacular cultural dance performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To welcome the IMF chief to the nation, a cultural group performed a traditional folk dance to a Sambalpuri song. Ms. Georgieva expressed her gratitude in return by applauding their performance and even trying out a few dancing moves herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video was later shared by Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on X, formerly Twitter. Sharing the video he wrote, difficult to resist Sambalpuri beats. As soon as he shared the video, it quickly went viral online. Meanwhile, Sambalpuri is a folk dance majorly practiced in Odisha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Difficult to resist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sambalpuri?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Sambalpuri<\/a> beats . <br><br>MD International Monetary Fund Ms. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KGeorgieva?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KGeorgieva<\/a> arrives in India for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/G20?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#G20<\/a> summit to a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sambalpuri?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Sambalpuri<\/a> song and dance welcome . <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OdiaPride?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OdiaPride<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4tx0nmhUfK\">pic.twitter.com\/4tx0nmhUfK<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dharmendra Pradhan (\u092e\u094b\u0926\u0940 \u0915\u093e \u092a\u0930\u093f\u0935\u093e\u0930) (@dpradhanbjp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dpradhanbjp\/status\/1700009586650914950?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite global challenges including climate change and the Russia-Ukraine war, the IMF recently predicted India will grow at a 6.1% annual rate during this fiscal year&nbsp;(April 2023\u2013March 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In October of last year, the IMF hailed India for being a bright spot in a dark horizon&nbsp;for its rapidly expanding economy despite the challenging times. Additionally, it has declared that during its G20 presidency the following year, the nation will have a lasting impact on the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite persistent economic worries worldwide, India&#8217;s GDP is currently rising at the fastest rate of any major economy. In the first quarter (April to June) of 2023\u20132024, it experienced GDP growth of 7.8%. In the second quarter of 2023, the Chinese economy expanded by 6.3% year over year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India&#8217;s economy has grown quickly even during these difficult times, and more crucially, this development is supported by structural changes, according to Kristalina Georgieva. India deserves to be called a bright spot in this otherwise dark horizon,&nbsp;Georgieva added. She&nbsp;had expressed optimism for more participation under India&#8217;s G20 presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ms. Georgieva expressed her gratitude in return by applauding their performance and even trying out a few dancing moves herself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":487496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,110599],"tags":[78216,12060,160480,160481,160482,160483],"yst_prominent_words":[10670,11189,39241,6849,25995,60778,81597,81596,3704,5313,12867,7805,4133],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/09\/08140733\/ezgif-4-691600b261-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487494"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=487494"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=487494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->