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Wealth of India’s 10 richest enough to fund school, higher education of every child for 25 years: Study

Indian billionaire see their combined fate more than doubled during the Covid-19 pandemic, and their counts jumped up to 39 percent to 142, while the ten richest wealth was sufficient to fund children and higher education children in this country for 25 years, A new study shows Monday. In the annual inequality survey released on the first day of Summit Davos Agenda Davos Davos World Forum, Oxfam India further said that one additional tax percent at 10 percent was richest able to provide the country with almost 17.7 extra oxygen cylinders, while similar wealth tax on 98 families The richest billionaire will finance Ayushman Bharat, the largest health insurance scheme in the world, for more than seven years. Pandemic Covid-19 looked in a big rush for oxygen cylinders and insurance claims dur...

PM Modi to attend virtual summit of BRICS today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend a virtual summit of the influential grouping BRICS on Tuesday which will focus on cooperation in counter-terrorism, trade, health, energy and ways to offset impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Chinese President Xi Jinping, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Russian President Vladimir Putin are scheduled to attend the 12th summit of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) grouping. The BRICS summit is taking place at a time two of the bloc''s members, India and China, are locked in a bitter border standoff in eastern Ladakh for over six months. Both Modi and Xi had come face-to-face virtually at the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on November 10. "At the invitation of President Putin, Prime Ministe...

In many respects, modern-day India is counted as a success story, says Barack Obama

Former US President Barack Obama has said that modern day India can be counted as a success story in many respects, despite bitter feuds within political parties, various armed separatist movements, and corruption scandals. The 44th US president, in his latest book, says the transition to a more market-based economy in the 1990s unleashed the extraordinary entrepreneurial talents of Indians, leading to soaring growth rates, a thriving technology sector, and a steadily expanding middle class. In his book "A Promised Land", Obama writes on his journey from the 2008 election campaign to the end of his first term with the daring Abbottabad (Pakistan) raid that killed al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. "A Promised Land" is the first of two planned volumes. The first part hit bookstores gl...