India has moved down 10 places to rank 68th on an annual global competitiveness index, largely due to improvements witnessed by several other economies, while Singapore has replaced the US as the worl...

Google chief Sundar Pichai on Wednesday said the world needs a free and open internet for everyone and hoped that all countries will come together for a common regulatory framework for artificial inte...

President Donald Trump has said that the US is watching the developments between India and Pakistan over Kashmir 'very closely' and repeated his offer to 'help' resolve the longstanding dispute betwee...

US President Donald Trump sought on Tuesday to sell the United States to the global business community, telling an economic conference in the Swiss Alps that America's economic turnaround has been 'no...

A restricted airspace and round-the-clock surveillance through radars, drones and fighter jets have made this Swiss ski resort town into a virtual fortress with all rich and powerful from across the w...

There has never been a good time in human history to be a woman. And the situation is unlikely to improve if the World Economic Forum’s latest report on the global gender gap is anything to go by. T...

US financier and philanthropist George Soros on Thursday pledged one billion dollars for a new university network project to battle the erosion of civil society in a world increasingly ruled by 'would...

Asserting that the Indian economy is well-poised to take off, Union minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said there is a lot of enthusiasm for making investments in the country.Speaking at a session at t...

Four young climate activists, including Greta Thunberg, scolded the elites gathered at the World Economic Forum for not doing enough to deal with the climate emergency and warned them that time was ru...

In his book, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum states that humanity is at the cusp of a revolution that is characterized by a range of new technologies, which ...