World Economic Forum said on Wednesday that the Indian economy is expected to grow by 6-7 per cent this fiscal
The hashtag 'Dobara Poocho' stresses at urging people to repeat inquiring about the mental well being of the person despite the person's assurance of being fit and fine.
Social activists led by Nafisa Ali branded the Gujarat chief minister a 'killer.'
Indian billionaires saw their combined fortunes more than double during the COVID-19 pandemic, and their count shot up by 39 per cent to 142, while the wealth of the ten richest is enough to fund school and higher education of children in the country for 25 years, a new study showed on Monday. In its annual inequality survey released on the first day of the World Economic Forum's online Davos Agenda summit, Oxfam India further said that an additional one per cent tax on the richest 10 per cent can provide the country with nearly 17.7 lakh extra oxygen cylinders, while a similar wealth tax on the 98 richest billionaire families would finance Ayushman Bharat, the world's largest health insurance scheme, for more than seven years. The COVID-19 pandemic saw a huge rush for oxygen cylinders and insurance claims during the second wave last year.
India's scores low due to poor quality of its political, regulatory, and business environment.
According to the research, the digital transformation comes with its own share of risks.
The number of Indians over 15 either working or looking for work is lower as a percentage than in the United States, China, Bangladesh or Pakistan, points out Aakar Patel.
'Is China's intention not clear?' 'Do we still think that if we are nice to China, it will be good to us?'
'Rahul inspired Indian industry with an ethos, an ethos of being more confident, more independent, more thorough, more competitive, more generous, more public-spirited, and more national and more international all at once,' remembers Naushad Forbes.
Releasing a report titled 'Profiting from Pain' in Davos, the rights group further said as the cost of essential goods rises faster than it has in decades, billionaires in the food and energy sectors are increasing their fortunes by $1 billion every two days.
The report by worldwide development organisation Oxfam details the impact that widening inequality is having on the world economy.
The demand for full-stack developers in India have seen a 20% increase in the last one year.
Out of the 214 Young Global Leaders who were honoured for leadership and service to society, 109 are women.
Under the tagline of 'India means business', the roundtable was attended by 40 CEOs of global companies and 20 from India.
As hundreds of world's rich congregate for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, many of them have also scheduled meetings with Swiss bankers to devise new strategy for their hidden wealth.
An annual survey by Gallup International rated PM Modi behind German Chancellor Angela Merkel, followed by French president Emmanuel Macron.
For the fiscal year ending March 31, India's GDP growth was 5 per cent, down from 6.2 per cent the previous year.
Trump said America is "open to business" and competitive again.
Tourism accounts for nine per cent of global GDP and is projected to represent one in every 10 jobs by 2022.
US is not going to do the kind of sequential taper that was hinted in May, said FM.
With consumers going the healthy way, PepsiCo decided to transform its portfolio from 'fun-filled' to 'good-filled' products, the beverages major's chief Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, said on Friday.
Chidambaram said this when he was asked by Financial Times Editor Lionel Barber on what he would he like to do beyond politics.
Having the right know-how and being able to adapt to changing trendsd and industry shifts can make all the difference to how a business functions today.
Let's have a look at 12 where women get the best deal.
Gates was referring to the impact of the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals, especially about the goal to reduce child mortality.
The world is becoming "ungovernable" as the economy has become global while governments continue to remain "national", Israeli President Shimon Peres said.
According to the report, the competition deficit is more pronounced in three core areas -- innovation and entrepreneurship, mobilising talent, and product and service market efficiency.
The six-day long World Economic Forum annual meet, which will see participation of over 100 Indian business and political honchos as well as global leaders, began here today and fiscal woes in the world economy are expected to dominate discussions.
She added that Suga had encouraged her to make the Games successful but declined to say anything further until after a Tokyo 2020 executive board meeting later in the day, when an official announcement on the post was likely to be made.
According to the report by WEF and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, the manufacturing sector not only adds value to the overall economic growth but also helps in creating more jobs than any other sector.
The WEF meeting is crucial because of its theme encompassing globalisation at the time of rising nationalism and trade war, and the fourth industrial revolution due to rapid strides being made in robotics and artificial intelligence.
A nation touted at places like the World Economic Forum in Davos a few years ago as an economic superpower in the making is only just beginning to address the problem that only 27 per cent of children in class 5 in its village schools can subtract.
According to the minister, India needs to expand its manufacturing sector to boost exports and ensure sustainability.
Hopeful of launching flights in India in next 2-3 months, Air Asia chief Tony Fernandes says that the airline would introduce 'dramatically' low fares in the country, which would be cheapest in the market and take air travel to masses.
India lacks behind and ranks 78 out of 122 countries that were assessed.
"we're talking about Kashmir and the relation to what's going on with Pakistan and India. And if we can help, we certainly will be helping," the President said.
Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai, whose reports on irregularities in coal block allocations and 2G telecom spectrum had created a major political storm, deprecated the "brazenness" with which the decisions were being taken, calling it "appalling".
hashtag 'Mori, please resign' was trending on Twitter in Japan
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