About 50 countries, including Canada, Mexico, Nigeria and Panama, have shown interest in having a Co-WIN like system to run their vaccination drive, a senior official said on Monday, adding India is ready to share the open source software free of cost.
The average rate of COVID-19 vaccination in the country has been 10.8 million per week. At that rate, it will take India till December 2024 to complete two billion doses.
The talks took place on the sidelines of the G-20 foreign ministers' meeting in the Indonesian city of Bali.
Joe Biden's B3W proposal aims to bring democracies together. India should come up with its own plans to contribute to the initiative, states Rahul Mishra.
India's growth is "firming up" while most of the major economies, including China and the US, are seeing stable momentum.
The inflows came higher in March than in February of 2019-20 despite the lockdown for a week, reports Indivjal Dhasmana.
Indian wage growth was by far the most unequal.
The economic impact of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 on emerging economies will depend on a mix of government restrictions, public comfort with social interactions, and capacity of governments and central banks to provide additional policy support to the private sector, Moody's Investors Service said on Wednesday. The emergence of the new variant poses new risks to the global economic growth and inflation outlook, as concerns mount about the variant's health risks and several countries have imposed new travel restrictions in recent days. These restrictions will likely increase over the coming weeks until scientists learn more about the variant, it said.
Biden and Xi shook hands and greeted each other with smiles, standing in front of a row of US and Chinese flags.
India this year will emerge as the world's seventh largest economy, up from the 12 th position in 2008.
Indian economy is witnessing stable growth momentum, says OECD.
China and India evoked the highest levels of confidence among major economies at 45 per cent and 40 per cent, respectively. The US was at 36 per cent, Canada at 27 per cent, the UK at 26 per cent, Germany at 20 per cent, France 18 per cent, and Japan having the least optimistic CEOs with only 11 per cent very confident of growing revenues in 2020.
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Amid a grim global scenario, India will have to labour hard to hold on to seven per cent growth in 2016-17.
As the United States and China joust for supremacy, India might remain on the sidelines with its limited resources.
Enabling labour to become more globally mobile can produce higher remittances with powerful 'brain gain' dividends.
Claude Arpi, who spent 10 days in the Land of the Dragon, tells us how Bhutan is different from the rest of the world.
Switzerland has been named the happiest country in the world.
The RBI refuses to classify a cryptocurrency as an asset since it doesn't have future cash flow and its value is always fluctuating because of speculation. There is also no consumer protection, observes Tamal Bandyopadhyay, and hence the e-rupee trial run.
India was ranked 12th among the large economies in 2008, and moved up to 10th by 2013, overtaking Canada and Spain.
India's fortunes will start reviving by 2018 when it will be at the ninth position, followed by fourth in 2023, before grabbing the third spot in 2028.
The accountancy giant said the rapid rise of the Indian economy with its young workforce would push it up from being the 10th largest economy in 2013 to the third largest by 2030.
'Unless we get the health and economic situations right at the same time, we will not recover.'
'The Chinese mindset and approach to India is far different from that in Pakistan.' 'This reality makes it possible for us to follow an engagement policy with one, while militating against engagement with the other.'
Modi praised Tamil Nadu as a special place and lauded the Tamil language as eternal and its culture as global.
'...to come back to power because it was not doing well.'
Only 75 aircraft were deployed to support the invasion, observes Group Captain Murli Menon (retd).
The time is ripe for debate on city governments in India.
The Indian economy can grow if it is delinked from the slow growth in the West and the deceleration in China, says Ashok K Lahiri.
Recently, The World Bank has come up with the latest figures on the wealthiest countries in the world.
India's economic growth is gaining momentum, Paris-based think tank OECD said on Monday amid the new government initiating various measures to bolster the economy.
India's economy could also suffer some ill-effects without necessarily triggering retaliation via higher tariff barriers against Indian goods, says Devangshu Datta.
Former Union minister Suresh Prabhu would be India's Sherpa at the 14th meeting of the world's top economies in Osaka, Japan.
7.8 million square feet of mall space is under construction this year, the highest ever since 2011.
Congress hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks in Canada about the "mess" left behind by others, saying they were in "poor taste" coming on foreign soil and show that he still carries the "hangover of the election campaign".
Investors expect more investment-friendly policies opening up more sectors for foreign direct investment
In August, the Fed announced that it would develop a "new interbank 24x7x365 RTGS with integrated clearing functionality to support faster payments in the United States". The Fed Board asked for comments on FedNow by November. In reply to this, Google mentioned its experience of launching Google Pay -- Google's payments app which uses the UPI -- in India.
There is a vocal constituency of educated, well-to-do, articulate Indian elites who would rather go with the idea that too much democracy is a liability. That India needs a spell of benevolent dictatorship. Of course, they have never lived under one, points out Shekhar Gupta.
It further said India is facilitating external commercial borrowings by startups in order to encourage innovation and promote ease of doing business.
'The new trains should be fast, but the roll-out of the privatisation plan should be slow and well-considered,' recommends T N Ninan.
