Minister for Communications, IT and Divestment Arun Shourie would lead a delegation to the World Economic Forum to be held in Davos (Switzerland) during January 20-25.
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.
44% citizens of the world agree that the eradication of poverty and hunger is the most important priority for the world, says the Voice of the People survey, carried out for the WEF, by Gallup.
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.'
"We plan to hire 2,000 people in the next four-five months or by the end of this fiscal. Currently we are 16,000 people in India."
Indian companies Reliance and Infosys, both active players in the Chinese market, are among the global industry majors who have partnered with the World Economic Forum to organise the 'China Business Summit 2005' in Beijing.
Apparel company Murjani Group is leading the charge, bringing Western labels such as Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein to Indian shoppers.
Citigroup Inc, the largest US bank, has asked India to liberalise its financial services sector, saying it would help the country maintain and improve over eight per cent GDP growth.
There is a significant shift happening towards emerging economies as they start to integrate more rapidly into the global trading system
'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.
The 16th Brics Summit beginning Tuesday in Kazan, Russia, is expected to see more focus on creating a sharper energy policy for Brics that ensures closer partnership among members in both energy security and energy transition, official sources said. The same is expected to be a part of the Kazan declaration, currently being negotiated, they added.
'A less tense US-China relationship would make Beijing less likely to provoke India -- including on the border -- in retaliation for its close defence ties with the US.'
Singapore is the world's most successful economy in exploiting ICT developments; US fifth, China 41st.
As a leader, he was ambitious, not for himself but for India and its people. His was not the short-term election cycle calculation of individual political gain. His was a practical vision of how to better the lives of his fellow citizens, asserts Ambassador Shivshankar Menon, who served as foreign secretary and national security advisor when Dr Singh was prime minister.
The 'R' word is everywhere. It's being discussed at World Economic Forum at Davos and now we have clients calling in at Orpheus, asking us about "recession" and how bad it is. And, is there a chance that the global depression might be starting? Such worries, though, important and critical, do highlight the mass psychology and how it reads the Federal interest rate cut and subprime crisis as a start of something bigger and problematic.
"The recent talk about a new cold war is hyperbolic nonsense. Our relations today are fundamentally different (with Russia) than they were when all we shared was the desire to avoid mutual annihilation," she said, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday.
While the national population explosion places nearly intolerable strains on India's physical and social infrastructure, the country's democracy is so dysfunctional that it is reasonable to ask whether it can rise to the looming economic and demographic challenges.
The issue at hand is not ASEAN versus Chindia, but ASEAN plus Chindia. Given the strengths of ASEAN and the growing muscle of India and China, the scope for constructive cooperation is immense, he said.
"The notion that companies in Asia are winning market share only on cost is obsolete," said meeting co-chair Nandan M Nilekani, president, chief executive officer and managing director, Infosys Technologies, India.
The world governing body approved a 32-team Club World Cup which will be played every four years from June 2025, apart from the increase in World Cup matches to 104.
He was quoted by the BBC as saying that the process should continue.
It is part of the Indian cultural mentality to be innovative and entrepreneurial. India, in ten years, will be a significant economic power, says Vanu Bose.
Islamabad also summoned the Iranian charge d'affaires here and issued a strongly worded condemnation of Iran's "violation of its airspace", the Foreign Office said.
APESMA chief executive John Vines said the lack of confidence expressed by business community about the standard of Australian education reflects workforce issues.
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.
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 has performed poorly in removing gender-based disparities, ranking 114 out of 142 countries in World Economic Forum's 2014 gender gap index, scoring below average on parameters like economic participation, educational attainment and health and survival.
