The year-end footage launched by the Indian Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) had the viral ‘Melodi’ selfie clicked by Italy Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni within the highlight. The selfie, clicked in the course of the COP28 summit in Dubai, grew to become probably the most viral political selfie of all time. 

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Italy is ready to host the G7 summit subsequent yr and India, an everyday invitee, is probably to be included. 

The ‘melodi’ selfie: Viral second of 2023

On December 2, 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his Italian counterpart, Georgia Meloni, on the sidelines of the COP28 local weather motion summit in Dubai. 

After the assembly, Meloni posted a selfie with Modi with the hashtag Melodi, a fusion of the final names of the 2 leaders.

“Good friends at COP28,” the Italian far-right chief captioned the photograph. Modi reposted it on X, previously Twitter, and wrote, “Meeting friends is always a delight.” The photograph quickly went viral and the hashtag Melodi was trending on the web. 

Which different footage made it to PMO’s ‘year-end’ highlights?

Among 23 unique images of PM Modi launched by PMO from the yr 2023, 4 are of his conferences with world leaders together with the US President in Delhi, French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, and having paan with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Delhi.

Besides, there’s a image of PM Modi on the G20 Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi representing Bharat

In a yr when Moscow dodged an unprecedented mutiny bullet, Washington and Beijing wrangled with a consequential geo-economic confrontation over the event of semiconductors, the Israel-Palestine battle entered its worst section in a long time — New Delhi’s rising financial clout coincided with its presidency of the grouping of world’s wealthiest economies: G20. 

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But all through 2023, New Delhi continued its emergence as a capital of significance.