"We are seeing an uptick. There is a lot more clarity and certainty about projects and decision cycles. I'm quite positive and companies are wanting to adopt technologies and are making decisions," TCS chief executive officer and managing director N Chandrasekaran said on the sidelines of World Economic Forum on India in Gurgaon.
His visit to India has been timed to coincide with the World Economic Forum on India in Gurgaon, Haryana on November 6.
The Geneva-based World Economic Forum would be playing host to 1,400 from top 1,000 companies around the world, 30 heads of states or governments, renowned academicians, artists and the faith leaders, including head of the Chinmaya Mission in New Delhi.
As the global economy recovers, governments find themselves transitioning from a focus on crisis containment, to a focus on managing its intervention towards eventual resolution," WEF director and head of investors Max Von Bismarck said.
Southern states will soon sell non-prescription drugs in post offices.
A World Economic Forum report on Tuesday said that India will face huge skills gaps in some job categories due to low employability over the next 20 years and also warned of a looming global labour crisis.
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's economic growth slipped to 6.7 per cent in '09, mainly on account of the impact of the global financial meltdown that started in the US in 2008.
Khan also said Pakistan has decided to partner any other country only for peace and named the partnership with the US as the one.
Actor, filmmaker Nandita Das was named as the Global Young Leader by World Economic Forum. She speaks about the rural-urban divide amongst India's youth, their aspirations and their dreams, their struggles and challenges in the 21st century.
Suzlon chairman Tulsi Tanti spoke to Business Standard at a recent World Economic Forum conference in Brussels about his view on a post-Copenhagen environment for wind and why green growth and development are complementary rather than contradictory.
Most economists expect the global economy to weaken in the coming year amid political and financial volatility, but a large majority of over 90 per cent are confident of moderate or strong growth in South Asia, notably India, a survey showed on Friday. At the same time, the outlook for China has dimmed following signs of deflationary pressures and fragility in the country's real estate market, the World Economic Forum's latest 'Chief Economists Outlook' report said. As the world grapples with political and financial volatility, almost six in 10 believe the global economic outlook will undermine progress towards meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with 74 per cent saying geopolitical tensions will have the same effect.
Terming it a socially responsible business model for growth, HCL Tech vice chairman and CEO Vineet Nayar said the company would create these jobs for fresh engineers.
A discussion on reviving Indian economy at the World Economic Forum turned into a war of words between Law Minister Ashwani Kumar and Bajaj Auto chairman Rahul Bajaj over the functioning of government.
India needs a rebooting and the country must give "value to common sense" to tackle issues like slowdown of growth, feels CEO of Swiss FMCG giant Nestle, Paul Bulcke.
"Outsourcing is also a concern and I hope it will be addressed soon," Godrej Group Chairman Adi Godrej told reporters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum on India in Gurgaon.
The break-up of Financial Development Index showed that India ranked 9th in non-banking financial services and capital markets tracked by the index, but the country lost out in terms of banking financial services standing at 45th place.
'While my generation carries with it the memory of the Chinese perfidy of 1962, this generation will carry the memory of Chinese perfidy in Galwan.'
A suspected suicide bomber triggered explosives at Moscow's busiest international airport on Monday killing at least 35 people and leaving 130 injured, in the first major terror attack in less than a year.
Jobs requiring AI skills carry a significant wage premium, with some roles offering up to a 25 per cent increase in wages, notes Manoj Nagpal, vice president, professional services, OpenText, an information management company.
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.
Another person on Indian origin, PepsiCo chairman and chief executive officer Indra Nooyi, is already a member of the WEF Foundation Board.
The 20th India Economic Summit, the annual event organised by the World Economic Forum and Confederation of Indian Industry, will see a large turnout of foreign investors and delegates this year.
British born Indian, Sachin Duggal, 27, a World Economic Forum 2009 technology pioneer, says that a major part of the battle he and his cloud computing company Nivio fight is in fact 'unclouding' the concept itself. "Part of our challenge is educational. We are trying to explain what we are about."
India is ready to further cut import tariffs on industrial goods for using it as a strong bargaining point in World Trade Organisation negotiations, Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath said on Monday.
Meeting planned with U.S. Attorney General in coming weeks
Nath, who is leading the Indian delegation at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, also said that even the US or Europe would not have seen as many reforms that happened in India.
Two Silicon Valley firms - Nanostellar and Meraki - have been selected by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum as Technology Pioneers 2008. Both companies are headed by Indo-Americans - Nanostellar by Pankaj Dhingra, president and chief executive officer, and Meraki Inc by Sanjit Biswas, co-founder and chief executive officer.
On Friday, Biden announced his intent to appoint 14 people to the advisory committee, which provides overall policy advice to the United States trade representative on matters of development, implementation, and administration of the US trade policy.
Union Minister of Commerce and Industries Kamal Nath, would lead a high powered team to Davos in Switzerland sources in the government of India said in an informal chat with rediff.com.
The India Today group said on Monday it would launch an English language daily in New Delhi early next year.
Next week, the government is auctioning spectrum at a minimum bid price of Rs 14,000 crore for 5 MHz of airwaves for all the country's 22 telecom zones.
As the West realizes that globalisation has pauperised governments, left its society in disarray and its currency weak, there is a huge re-think there about the very idea of globalisation.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the country's largest information technology (IT) services provider, has planned to launch what it terms 'SME Cloud' in a fortnight. Under which, it would provide hosted services for enterprises having a Rs 50-500 crore turnover.
Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma has asked global retail chains not to rush the government into allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail.
