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).
Dharmendra Pradhan, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal have been elevated to Cabinet ministers.
'Breaking out of the corner into which China has painted itself would be a feat.' 'Whether Xi is able to pull it off will be known in the coming days,' says B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant and member of the Joint Intelligence Committee at the time of China's invasion of India.
Only India is anticipated to witness better growth momentum among the BRIC bloc
The meet will focus on the recent global economic developments, challenges and collective measures to address them
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.
This will be Prime Minister Modi's sixth G20 Summit which is being held at Osaka on June 28-29.
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.
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.
China, however, remained ambiguous about the status of its own troops.
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.
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.
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.
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.
India has pitched for a sovereign credit rating upgrade with Fitch Ratings, after announcing its budget last month.
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.
'The Chinese can't be trusted hence the need to verify and re-verify.'
India, UAE yet to conclude bilateral investment promotion and protection agreement.
A new study of well-being finds Indians perception of their own lives declining.
May emphasise that the country is back on the fiscal consolidation path by reining in fiscal deficit at 5.2%.
Several factors seem to have corrected in India in the past six months, says the president of New Development Bank.
During a meeting of the BRICS foreign ministers in New York on the sidelines of the 67th session of the General Assembly, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov "categorically stated that he supported India's permanent membership of the Security Council," Indian Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai said.
China's intended role for AIIB is not so different from the existing Western lenders like the World Bank.
It was in 2005, India changed its patent law and started granting patents in medicines.
India's sovereign rating could be cut if the government loosens fiscal policy in the run-up to elections, says Fitch.
Indian Non-Governmental Organisations are very dissatisfied with the weak response of Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan to the Rio+20 declaration issued on the eve of the summit, reports Darryl D'Monte.
'It is astonishing that such a serious issue be handled in so casual and cavalier a fashion, but this has become what is expected of this government,' observes Aakar Patel.
The ongoing Detroit Motor Show has plenty of interesting cars this time round
'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).
According to the report 'World in 2050 The BRICs and Beyond: Prospects, challenges and opportunities', the global financial crisis has accelerated the shift of the economic centre of gravity and China is expected to surpass the US to become the largest economy in the world by 2050.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has favoured broadening of the strategic partnership with Russia in nuclear, defence and energy sectors and invited President Vladimir Putin to visit Kudankulam atomic power project during his trip in December for his annual summit.
