The Commerce and Industry Ministry informed on October 20, 2020, that India received its highest-ever Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in April-August 2020, the first five months of the financial year.
The “Doing Business in India Report, 2020” was released by the UK India Business Council
According to the report the business of you came to believe that the business environment in India is improving and there is a greater opportunity for UK India collaboration.
The Annual Status of Education Report for Rural India was recently released by Pratham Education Foundation. The survey was conducted in 26 states and four Union Territories.
According to the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Indian supercomputer, Param Siddhi has attained 63rd rank in the list of 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world.
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has published its biannual ‘Worldwide Cost of Living (WCOL)’ report of the World’s Most Expensive Cities in 2020, based on their cost of living.
Hong Kong (China), Paris (France) and Zurich (Switzerland) share the top spot as the most expensive cities on the list, which comprises 133 cities.
Lahore, the cultural capital of Pakistan, has been listed as the world’s most polluted city, according to air pollution data published by the US Air Quality Index (AQI).
Lahore listed a particulate matter (PM) rating of 423. New Delhi stood second with a PM of 229, while Nepal’s capital Kathmandu ranked third with a PM of 178.
Chairperson of HCL Technologies, Roshni Nadar Malhotra has stood on the first spot on the list of wealthiest women in India, according to the second edition of ‘Kotak Wealth Hurun–Leading Wealthy Women’ report.
The report is published by Kotak Wealth Management, a division of Kotak Mahindra Bank, and Hurun India.
The Nongpok Sekmai Police Station in Manipur topped the list of best police stations in India, while SooramangalamAll Women Police Station at Salem, Tamil Nadu has come up as the second best police station in the country.
The Kharsang PS, Arunachal Pradesh‘sChanglang district has come up as the country’s third-best police station.
India is placed at 10th place in the ‘Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2021’, released on 7th December 2020.
The overall score of India is 63.98. It is for the second time in a row that India emerged among the top 10 countries with higher climate performance from among 58 economies. India was at 9th spot last year in the index.
According to the report published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), India has been dropped two positions to 131 among 189 countries in the 2020 Human Development Index.
Norway topped the index, followed by Ireland, Switzerland, Hong Kong and Iceland, the report revealed.
American media personality and reality TV star, Kylie Jenner has been topped the highest-paid celebrity of 2020 by Forbes.
The top-earning stars in the world earned a combined of $6.1 billion in 2020 with Kylie Jenner. Placing aside Kylie’s history with Forbes, the financial experts there calculated her earning this year to be at $590 million after she sold a majority of her beauty brand’s stake to Coty Inc.