Elon Musk is one of the world's most successful entrepreneurs.
Bollywood is on the move! The stars are travelling to various parts of India and the world on work and play.
For the first time, more than half of the CEOs surveyed by global consultancy PwC said they believe the rate of global GDP growth will decline. In comparison, the survey had found a record level of optimism among CEOs two years ago in 2018.
India is ranked lower than all its BRICS peers -- Russia, China, Brazil and South Africa
The Dubai Model is now revealed to be a mirage and one hopes that India's leaders would have drawn the appropriate lessons from it, says Mohan Guruswamy.
India's ranking declined by three places to 59th position in the Global Competitiveness Index 2012 2013.
Two Indian companies -- Strand Life Sciences and Drishtee -- are among 47 'visionary' firms worldwide selected by the World Economic Forum as Technology Pioneers 2007 for their life-changing innovations.
Over 2,500 global leaders in business and politics arrived in this Swiss resort on Wednesday to put their minds together on how best to support the fragile recovery following the worst economic crisis since the 1930s.
China, at 28, remains by far the most competitive of this group.
On the index, India has a score of 4.52 while that of Switzerland is 5.81
Hard selling India as an investment destination at the WEF, Modi said the government is following the principle of reform, perform and transform.
The annual list, released on Wednesday by Geneva-based World Economic Forum, comes at a time when the new Indian government has completed 100 days in power and has promised further steps to revive its economy and the ease of doing business in the country.
After a 27-year long alliance, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) have parted ways on organising the India Economic Summit, fuelling many theories on the reason. Both the organisations, however, sought to play down the development, saying it was a natural evolution for the Davos-based WEF to organise its event in India as it does in other regions.
The four key risk areas India needs to focus on at the moment include economic security, energy security, agriculture and food security and national security, it adds. The WEC-CII report says many issues facing India in these four areas will require considerable long-term investment from both public and private sectors. 'Decision-makers in government and business will be forced to make trade-offs as to where spending and investments are allocated,' it said.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley who is in Davos to showcase India as an investment destination at the World Economic Forum (WEF), on Wednesday promised India has a "lot in the pipeline" for global investors even as he plans to take up with Switzerland the issue of black money stashed in banks there.
The second-generation reforms undertaken by India have not kept pace with those in the other countries, World Economic Forum's chief economist, Augusto Lopez Claros said on Monday.
India is among the worst-ranked countries when it comes to taxation and inflation burden on economy, as also in terms of the negative impact of crime, terrorism and health hazards on business environment, a WEF report said.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will not be able to attend the annual World Economic Forum meeting to be held at Davos from January 24-28 next year.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has sent a letter to the Pilibhit District Election Officer seeking necessary action against Bharatiya Janata Party MP.
Priyanka to shift base to Lucknow when the COVID-19 situation improves
With the BJP continuing to be the constant combatant, centrifugal pressures will rise. Fractured relations between the Centre and the states as between BJP and non-BJP ruled states is a sizeable risk owing ahead, warns Shekhar Gupta.
Releasing its annual Global Risks 2014 report, Geneva-based WEF said that the income disparity was the most likely risk to cause an impact on a global scale in the next decade, while other significant risks include extreme weather events, unemployment and fiscal crises.
Delaying action on climate change will hurt growth: Global CEOs.
International medal-winning Indian woman boxer Neeraj (57kg), who was among the probables for 2020 Tokyo Olympics, has been provisionally suspended after failing a dope test.
The Central Railway and Western Railway decided to run 'selective suburban services' over main line and harbour line only for essential staff as defined by the state government, a senior official said.
Minister of State for External Affairs Vinod Khanna will lead the Indian delegation to the World Economic Forum extraordinary annual meeting in Jordan from June 21-23.
India was ranked 50 among 127 countries which were evaluated by the World Economic Forum (WEF) for their 'network readiness'. Last year, it was ranked 44 out of 122 countries. Thus, the country has slipped four places in a constant sample from 200607.
The country, last year, stood at the 27th spot for effective regulation and supervision of securities exchanges.
Diaspora groups in the UK urged for calm and advised non-resident Indians and people of Indian origin to follow the new lockdown rules, which mean a majority of the UK is under the strictest lockdown with all non-essential businesses now closed.
'The world wants India to succeed. It also worries now that India over-promises and under-delivers,' says Shekhar Gupta.
Under the tagline of 'India means business', the roundtable was attended by 40 CEOs of global companies and 20 from India.
With the Swiss government showing eagerness to help India trace suspected black money hoarders, banks based in Switzerland appear to be losing traction among the wealthy Indian clients and could not get much business commitments during the just-ended WEF summit.
Speaking at a virtual conference of the World Economic Forum, the external affairs minister, at the same time, said the border row happens to be one part of the larger issue of how India and China adjust to each other when both are rising.
The 56 Indian businesses surveyed in 2004-05 expressed some concern over the impact of HIV/AIDS. Of these, 46 per cent report some current effect of the virus on their company, with 14 per cent reporting 'serious effects.'
The so-called 'fourth industrial revolution' will bring ever faster cycles of innovation, posing huge challenges to companies, workers, governments and societies alike
Tirap, Changlang and Longding districts of Arunachal Pradesh and eight police stations bordering Assam were declared "disturbed" areas under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), 1958.
The government believes that WTO's push for initiating negotiations on substantive obligations related to e-commerce will oblige India to permanently accept the current moratorium on imposing customs duties on products traded electronically.
The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has approved the resolution plan of Twin Star Technologies -- a promoter entity of the Vedanta Resources group -- for the Videocon group. But it has pointed out that the successful resolution applicant is "paying almost nothing" as the amount offered is only 4.15 per cent of total outstanding claim. It noted the hair cut for all the creditors is 95.85 per cent and suggested to both committee of creditors (CoC) and the successful applicant an increase in the payout.
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