India retains to place 43rd on an annual World Competitiveness Index arranged by Institute for Management Development (IMD) with some traditional weaknesses like bad infrastructure and inadequate education investment keeping its ranking low.
Indiagot USD 51 billion in foreign investment in 2019 and was the world’s 9th largest recipient of foreign direct investments (FDI) in 2019, as per a report by the UN’s trade body.
India and China have raised their nuclear arsenal over the last year, as per to theStockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The Swedish think-tank that researches on conflict, armaments and arms charge also aimed out on Monday that China is significantly modernizing its nuclear arsenal.
Reliance Industries (RIL) came up as the first Indian company to be valued at $150 billion. Saudi Aramco – heads the biggest companies globally with a market cap of $ 1,764.50 billion as on June 16, 2020.
India has turned up as the 12th largest holder of US government securities at the end of April, keeping worth 157.4 billion dollars. While the holding reached a record high of 177.5 billion dollars in February, the same was highly decreased in March.
Reliance Foundation chairperson Nita Ambani to be the only Indian to highlight in Town & Country magazine’s top global philanthropists of 2020 list including Tim Cook, Oprah Winfrey, Laurene Powell Jobs, the Lauder Family, Donatella Versace, Michael Bloomberg and Leonardo Di Caprio among others.
Pakistan got another extension on the “grey list”, as the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) plenary session on 24th June finalized to maintain all countries under scrutiny for Terror Financing and Money Laundering until October 2020.
India has rolled down three spots to 77th rank in terms of money deposited by its citizens and enterprises with Swiss banks at the end of 2019, while the UK has maintained its top position, as per the recent data from Switzerland’s central bank. India was placed 74th in the previous year.
India has fixed its spot as the third-largest economy after China and the US in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP) for 2017, stated the government citing the World Bank data.
In accordance with the “INFORM Report 2020: Shared evidence for managing crises and disasters” delivered by research centre INFORM, operating under European Commission (EU), India has placed at 31st place with an acquaint risk of 5.4, means the risk of humanitarian crises and disasters.
India’s Global Real Estate Transparency Index ranking has advanced by one nick to 34 on the back of regulatory reforms, better market data and green initiatives, as per property consultant JLL.
India has been ranked eighth for cancer preparedness among 10 Asia-Pacific countries where Australia ranked 1st.
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report on “Cancer preparedness in Asia-Pacific: Progress towards universal cancer control”, sponsored by Roche, examines the findings from the EIU’s Index of Cancer Preparedness.
The report describes the complexities of the challenge of cancer facing 10 Asia-Pacific countries Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam.
Global Manufacturing Risk Index 2020 released by a property consultant Cushman & Wakefield.
India ranks third in the list of most-suitable locations for global manufacturing among 48 countries in terms of cost competitiveness and operating conditions.
China and the US retain the top two positions.
Global Manufacturing Risk Index In its annual ranking of the most suitable locations for global manufacturing among 48 countries in Europe, Americas and the Asia-Pacific, the consultant said India is in top-3 countries this year and an upcoming manufacturing hub globally from an operating conditions and cost-competitiveness perspective.
As per the Special Bulletin on MMR released by the Registrar General of India, “Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) of India has declined by 9 points in one year.
The ratio has declined from 122 in 2015-17 to 113 in 2016-18 (7.4 % decline).
Northern states registered a higher MMR: Assam (215), Bihar (149), Madhya Pradesh (173), Chhattisgarh (159), Odisha (150), Rajasthan (164), Uttar Pradesh (197) and Uttarakhand (99).
The southern states registered a lower MMR: Andhra Pradesh (65), Telangana (63), Karnataka (92), Kerala (43), and Tamil Nadu (60).
The target 3.1 of UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) aims to reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 1,00,000 live births.
Maternal Mortality Ratio MMR is defined as the number of maternal deaths per 1,00,000 live births
The United Nations reported that the nitrogen dioxide levels in New Delhi have fallen by more than 70% during the lockdown. The Nitrogen Dioxide levels have fallen down in other countries as well. In China the levels have fallen by 40%, in Belgium, it fell by 20%, between 19-40% in the USA.
As per the report of FutureBrand Index 2020, Reliance Industries has been ranked the second biggest brand after Apple. The 2020 list is topped by Apple, while Samsung is ranked third, followed by Nvidia, Moutai, Nike, Microsoft, ASML, PayPal and Netflix.
Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos is now the world’s richest man worth $204.6 billion. He is $90 billion richer than Bill Gates, the world’s second-richest person.