Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Japan, a key strategic partner, next month as he embarks on a busy foreign travel schedule in coming months that will include Bhutan, Brazil and the US.
India has been ranked 98th in the Forbes list of world's best countries for doing business that has cited poverty, corruption and discrimination against girls among the challenges facing the country.
The study focuses solely on persons with a net worth of $30 million and above (after accounting for shares in public and private companies, residential and investment properties, art collections, planes, cash and other assets).
The meet will focus on the recent global economic developments, challenges and collective measures to address them
Only India is anticipated to witness better growth momentum among the BRIC bloc
India's retail inflation is the highest among the BRICS group of emerging economies.
With growing urbanisation in India, nearly 85 crore people are estimated to live in cities across the country by 2050, a latest report by industry chamber CII and realty consultant Jones Lang LaSalle said.
About 27% of businesses globally expect to increase employment in 2013, down one percentage point from 2011 and below the pre-crisis level of 33%.
Investors who ditched US markets for emerging ones during the financial crisis are set to pay a hefty price.
Despite the slowdown, India's population of rich is growing. The country saw 120 more individuals join the exclusive club.
While India has scored well on parameters like workforce and employment, it has fared poorly for health and wellness of its labour force, WEF said.
By jettisoning the vision of multilateral world in favour of a Han Empire, China has posed a major long term challenge to India. India must stand firm against Chinese expansionism but also keep a door open for future detente by making a clear distinction between Chinese people and the current Chinese leadership, observe Lieutenant General Ashok Joshi (Retd) and Colonel Anil Athale (Retd).
China, however, remained ambiguous about the status of its own troops.
'While growth will bounce back from the current sub-5 per cent, it will stay lower than the already inadequate long-term average of 6.6 per cent,' notes T N Ninan.
With Donald Trump unable to make it, Modi settles for Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will attend a two-day trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of Russia, India and China in New Delhi from November 10 to discuss regional and international issues.
During May, the HSBC composite index for India, which maps both manufacturing and services sectors, stood at 52, whereas for China it was 50.9, Brazil (51.2) and Russia (51). An index measure of above 50 indicates expansion.
Narendra Modi will be travelling to Israel, the first by an Indian prime minister to the Jewish country with which bilateral defence cooperation is on an upswing.
'Analysts see BECA as a 'force multiplier' for India.' 'But China too is known to have such capabilities.' 'The military gap with China will continue to remain a fact of life, BECA notwithstanding,' argues Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar
Ahead of the first meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Durban, China today said such a meeting will help to build mutual trust and cooperation between the two countries.
The controversial Kudankulam Unit I of the atomic power reactor in Tamil Nadu will become operational by next month, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet China's new President Xi Jinping in Durban on Wednesday, the first bilateral meeting between the two leaders after the leadership change in Beijing.
Contentious boundary issue and ways to boost bilateral ties were among the issues which figured during discussions between National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon and China's chief negotiator Dai Bingguo in New Delhi on Friday.
'Unless the economy is sound in the country how can only three movies collected so much business in a single day?'
The time is ripe to extend the confrontation with the Chinese to the maritime domain, says former RA&W officer Krishan Varma.
India has pitched for a sovereign credit rating upgrade with Fitch Ratings, after announcing its budget last month.
However, there is no official word on whether there will be any interaction between Modi and Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain, who is scheduled to attend the meeting in China.
'There is no parallel in UN history of an individual terrorist being bailed out by a world power,' points out Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd).
Contact could not be established with the Indian Air Force flight IFC 31 after it left Male ATC for Mauritius airspace on Saturday, the Airports Authority of India said in a statement.
Several factors seem to have corrected in India in the past six months, says the president of New Development Bank.
Amid imminent phasing out of the fiscal stimulus by US Federal Reserve, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday called for an "orderly exit" from unconventional monetary policies being pursued by the developed world for the last few years to avoid damaging growth prospects of the developing world.
Fund raising expectations have turned more cautious over the past year due to concerns over governance.
The world economy is projected to grow at an average rate of just over 3% per annum from 2011 to 2050, doubling in size by 2032.
A total of over 75 Heads of State and Foreign Ministers will be meeting with Modi, external affairs minister S Jaishankar and minister of state for external affairs V Muraleedharan during the week across various platforms.
A new study of well-being finds Indians perception of their own lives declining.
India, UAE yet to conclude bilateral investment promotion and protection agreement.
May emphasise that the country is back on the fiscal consolidation path by reining in fiscal deficit at 5.2%.
China's intended role for AIIB is not so different from the existing Western lenders like the World Bank.
Former Union minister Suresh Prabhu would be India's Sherpa at the 14th meeting of the world's top economies in Osaka, Japan.
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