Top news at 1pm on Sept 4: All party meet on Kashmir; Saint Mother Teresa, G20 Summit and more

An all-party delegation led by Home Minister Rajnath Singh has reached Srinagar and has started their meeting with several representatives from a cross section of society as part of efforts to bring peace in the Valley. Mother Teresa, the celebrated nun whose work with the poor of Kolkata made her an instantly recognizable global figure, will be proclaimed a saint on Sunday. Leading from the chair, Modi addressed the BRICS Leaders Meeting in China, before the 8th annual Summit in Goa from October 15-16. Here are the top headlines of the hour. 

1. Kashmir unrest: HM Rajnath Singh led all-party delegation starts meeting in Srinagar

An all-party delegation led by Home Minister Rajnath Singh has reached Srinagar and has started their meeting with several representatives from a cross section of society as part of efforts to bring peace in the Valley."We intend to talk to individuals and groups who want peace and normalcy in Kashmir Valley," Singh said before the departure of delegation comprising 30 members from 20 parties.

2. Mother Teresa 'Saint of the gutters' to be canonised 19 years after her death

Mother Teresa, the celebrated nun whose work with the poor of Kolkata made her an instantly recognizable global figure, will be proclaimed a saint on Sunday. Pope Francis will preside over a solemn canonisation mass in the presence of 100,000 pilgrims and with a giant haloed portrait of Teresa smiling down from St Peter’s Basilica. The sainthood ceremony, for which the Vatican could easily have issued twice as many tickets, comes one day short of the 19th anniversary of Teresa’s death, at 87, in the Indian city where she spent her adult life, first teaching, then tending to the dying poor.

3. G20 summit: PM Modi leads BRICS meeting, calls group an influential voice in international discourse

Describing BRICS as “an influential voice in international discourse”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said it was the grouping’s shared responsibility to shape the global agenda. Leading from the chair, Modi addressed the BRICS Leaders Meeting in China, before the 8th annual Summit in Goa from October 15-16.“We, as BRICS, are an influential voice in international discourse. It is, therefore, our shared responsibility to shape the international agenda,” he said.

4. Hizbul chief threatens to turn Kashmir into graveyard for Indian forces: Reports

izbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin on Saturday vowed to block any peaceful political resolution to the Kashmir conflict. Speaking to an Indian Englsh daily from Muzaffarabad PoK, Kashmir’s most-wanted terrorist threatened to train more Kashmiri suicide bombers, who would turn the Valley into "a graveyard for Indian forces", and to take his struggle outside Kashmir. 

5. Filmmaker Anand Pandit institutes ‘Amitabh Bachchan Media Scholarship’

Actor, singer, host, mentor, philanthropist and much more, Amitabh Bachchan is an enigma that never ceases to deliver to its fans. Adding another feather to megastar Bachchan’s cap, filmmaker Anand Pandit of Anand Pandit Motion Pictures has insitututed a media scholarship in his name.According to reports, the Amitabh Bachchan Media Scholarship will annually awarded to students of cinema and media after an exhaustive selection process.