None of the Big Tech companies or tycoons appears to be playing a meaningful role in the testing, spread, cure, or eradication of the virus or even in contact tracing so far, says Prosenjit Datta.
Jeff Bezos of Amazon tops the list for the second consecutive year with networth of $147 billion.
Of the, four are co-founders of Infosys.
If everybody is 'working' from home, then how has TV consumption gone up? Who is making all that gourmet food being posted on social media?
Anoyara Khatun, 18, now leads 80 groups of children, who are fighting against evils like child marriage, trafficking, child labour, besides other issues related to health and education.
The tactics deployed by Obama to bring India on board, which was the only major power in his way of the climate deal, was described by his former top personal and national security aide Benjamin Rhodes in a podcast interview.
This makes him corporate India's biggest donor to society.
'The more seriously ill you are from heart disease, the more seriously ill you could get from infection with COVID-19.'
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Speaking at a fireside chat with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, he said the big change driving this transformation was the deepening of mobile networks which were working at a much faster pace than before.
'If you don't have a strong political leadership, however much expertise a country may have, in pandemic preparedness or infectious disease, will not matter.' 'It's really about having strong political leadership, that is proactive, that prioritises taking the right action.' 'And if you don't have that, then you will have a much worse pandemic experience.'
Duterte had consistently led the Time 100 Reader Poll, an online survey in which the publication had asked its readers to vote for who should be included in this year's Time 100 list of the world's most influential people.
The London-based CEO of alldayPA and Isher Capital has been making waves on Instagram with his Rolls-Royce collection.
Keeping a company on the cutting edge is about more than making workers happy.
Microsoft on Tuesday said it will offer commercial cloud services from local data centres in India by 2015 as the tech giant gears for competition for the estimated $2 trillion domestic market opportunity from rival firms like Google and IBM.
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After Satya Nadella, Manipal University is celebrating another alumni's rise to the global boardroom, Rajeev Suri, who has been appointed as the CEO of Finnish firm Nokia.
'People are already sending congratulatory messages. But I have said, "Please don't until the trials are over".'
Buffett typically makes his donations in July, reducing the number of shares by 5 percent from the prior year.
It is not every day that one of the planet's richest men is arrested by his government.
Roger Federer continued his sizzling form on Saturday to set up an all-Swiss final against Stan Wawrinka at the BNP Paribas Open in California.
As the government faces a difficult choice in keeping up with the rest of the world in AI development while making sure it does not add to unemployment, it has set up a task force to draw up a policy for the accelerated deployment of AI
'Our drains are not filled with bodies, our hospitals not run out of beds.' 'That good news, or absence of expected bad news, is the truth that so many in the international community, and also within India, seem unable to handle,' notes Shekhar Gupta.
In the Forbes rich list Mukesh Ambani is ranked 39th.
There are over 5,000 UHNW-founded private foundations.
The Sampark Foundation boasts of a $100 million outlay funded entirely by the Nayars and represents more than half of their wealth.
Ajit Balakrishnan offers a recipe for creating 100,000 plus angel investors in India.
He added however that reasonable profit must be there at the bottom of the pyramid as the business has to be self-sustaining
Surprisingly, Jeff Bezos is the new entrant to the list and ends up holding the first position.
'The government has said it has kept its powder dry to fight the true battle against the debilitating influence of the pandemic.' 'The release of the shocking economic data this week should act as the fuse for using that powder now.' 'Further delays will make the battle that much harder,' notes Shreekant Sambrani.
Building a global brand was Choksi's idea, which Modi borrowed from him.
Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja emerged as the 66th richest in the world, as part of an Oxfam study released at the WEF.
Anjuli Bhargava discovers how the Buddha Fellowship is attracting India's brightest minds to solve its problems.
India has the fourth highest number of malaria cases in the world.
Zuckerberg and Priscilla will spend $3 billion to 'cure all diseases'
Obama joked comfortably with the eccentric founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group.
Modi ranks 9th on the Forbes list of 74 of the World's Most Powerful People.
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