<p><strong>Breaking News Live:</strong> Hello and welcome to Breaking News Live Blog. Please follow this space for all the breaking news and latest updates from India and around the world. Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Greece on Friday, first visit by an Indian Prime Minister in 40 years. Modi's visit to Greece comes on the invitation of his Greek counterpart <span style="font-weight: 400;">Kyriakos Mitsotakis. On Friday, NCP chief Sharad Pawar will hold a rally in Maharashtra's Kolhapur, reported news agency PTI. </span></p> <h3><strong>PM Modi's Visit To Greece</strong> </h3> <p>Following his three-day visit to South Africa to attend the 15th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday reached the ancient city of Athens in Greece. PM visited the European country <span style="font-weight: 400;">on the invitation of his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis, marking it as a first visit by an Indian Prime Minister in 40 years. During his visit, Modi will meet Greece President Katerina Sakellaropoulou. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Contacts between our two civilizations stretch back over two millennia. In modern times, our ties have been strengthened by shared values of democracy, rule of law and pluralism. Cooperation in diverse sectors such as trade and investment, defence, and cultural and people-to-people contacts have been bringing our two countries closer,” Modi said in his departure statement on Tuesday. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I look forward to my visit to Greece opening a new chapter in our multifacted relationship,” he added. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">India’s Ambassador to Greece, Rudrendra Tandon also looked forward to Modi’s visit saying it will give a new “impetus” to their close bilateral relationship. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"I cannot pre-judge the discussions between the two prime ministers, but certainly the fact that this visit is taking place is the result of a thinking at the highest political levels to bring a new lens to an otherwise very good relationship,” Tandon told PTI in an interview. </span></p> <h3><strong>Sharad Pawar To Hold Rally In Kolhapur</strong></h3> <p>Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Friday will hold a public rally in Maharashtra's Kolhapur, a week ahead of the meeting of Opposition's INDIA alliance in Mumbai, reported PTI. The NCP patriarch has been holding rallies in different parts of the state after his nephew, Ajit Pawar turned rebel against the party, resulting in a vertical solit, and joined hands with the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party government last month, swearing-in as the Deputy Chief Minister. On August 17, the senior Pawar held a rally in Beed district, the home turf of NCP (Ajit Pawar group) leader and cabinet minister Dhananjay Munde.</p> <p>Speaking to reporters in Mumbai, NCP (Sharad Pawar faction) chief spokesperson Mahesh Tapase said, “Sharad Pawar will address his next public rally in Kolhapur on Friday (August 25). He will also address rallies in Jalgaon and Pune districts.” He, however, did not provide the dates for rallies in Jalgaon and Pune districts. </p>
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