G20 Summit ends: World leaders pay tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat

Today morning G20 leaders paid their respects to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat, as the summit came to a closure.

A day after the group added a new member and reached an agreement on a range of issues but softened their language on Russia's war in Ukraine.

Today PM Narendra Modi handed over the gavel to the President Lula of Brazil as the next holder of the G20 Presidency.

The Group of 20 rich and developing nations welcomed the African Union as a member - part of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's drive to uplift the Global South.

And host India was also able to get the disparate group to sign off on a final statement despite pointed disagreements among powerful members, mostly centred on the European conflict.

India also unveiled an ambitious plan with the United States, the European Union and others to build a rail and shipping corridor linking it with the Middle East and Europe in a bid to strengthen economic growth and political cooperation.

With those major agenda items taken care of, the leaders shook hands Sunday and posed for photos with Modi at the Rajghat Gandhi memorial site in New Delhi. Each received a shawl made of khadi, a handspun fabric that was promoted by Gandhi during India’s independence movement against the British.

Some leaders - including British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and last year's G20 host President Joko Widodo of Indonesia - walked to the memorial barefoot in a customary show of respect. US President Joe Biden and others wore slippers as they walked over wet ground spotted with puddles from heavy rain.