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India stands 74th on WEF Global Energy Transition Index

World Economic Forum
  • India has jumped up two places to rank 74th on a global energy transition index, which has ranked 115 economies on how well they are capable to balance energy security and way with environmental sustainability and affordability.

India stands high on “Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker”

PM Modi
  • The “Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker” has classified India’s response to COVID-19 as one of the most stringent in the world. This data are based on tracking 73 countries.
  • This tracker is designed by researchers from the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford.

UN releases World Happiness Report 2020

World Happiness Report 2020

  • United Nations (UN) delivered the 8th World Happiness Report 2020 to measure the happiness of people of 156 countries where India(3.573) ranks in 144th position &  Finland(7.809) tops the 3rd time.
  • The survey places the countries using Gallup World Poll, GDP levels, life expectancy, generosity, social support, freedom &  corruption income.

India ranks second in Global Animal Protection Index 2020

Global Animal Protection Index 2020

India is ranked at the second place in Global Animal Protection Index 2020. This Index was declared by International animal welfare charity “World Animal Protection” released. India has attained a C ranking in the index. India was ranked along with Spain, Mexico, France and New Zealand. Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Austria are rated with the highest scores, which is encouraging.

Gaurav Gupta & Byju Raveendran on WEF’s Young Global Leaders list

Gaurav Gupta and Byju Raveendran

Byju Classes’ founder Byju Raveendran and Zomato’s co-founder Gaurav Gupta are among the five Indians named by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in its new list of 115 Young Global Leaders. Raveendran, who released Byju’s as a learning app in 2015, calls himself a teacher by choice and an entrepreneur by chance. Gupta’s Zomato has been a pioneering food technology start-up, which he released as a table reservation business and then scaled it up across India, the UAE and Australia. The other three Indians on the list includes Tara Singh Vachani (CEO of Antara Senior Living), Vinati Mutreja (Managing Director and CEO, Vinati Organics Limited), Swapan Mehra (CEO, Iora Ecological Solutions).

Gujarat tops in domestic solar rooftop installations

domestic solar rooftop

Gujarat has topped the list for domestic solar rooftop installations with 64% of domestic solar installations. Nearly 50,915 systems being fixed on domestic rooftops in the State as on March 2, 2020. The State government of Gujarat has adopted a solar rooftop scheme “Surya Gujarat” to cover about eight lakh domestic electricity consumers under the scheme by 2022.

India was world’s second-largest arms importer in 2015-19: Report

India was world’s second-largest arms

India remained the world’s second largest arms importer during the period 2015-19, with Russia being the largest supplier though Moscow’s share of the Indian weapons market rejected from 72% to 56%, a leading think tank that tracks arms transfers stated in its annual report. In its annual “Trends in international arms transfers 2019″ report, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) listed the world’s top five arms importers during the five-year period as Saudi Arabia, India, Egypt, Australia and China.

BRAC tops the list of top 500 Global NGOs

BRAC

Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee (BRAC) is an international development organization that has topped the list of top 500 Global Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). The list of the top 500 global NGOs of year 2020 was delivered by Geneva-based organization NGO Adviser. The Bangladesh based international development organization, BRAC has retained its 1st rank in the list for the 5th consecutive year.

India places on 3rd in Hurun Global Rich List 2020

Hurun Global Rich List 2020

Hurun Report has announced the Hurun Global Rich List 2020. The Hurun Global Rich List 2020 is a ranking of the US-Dollar billionaires in the world. The 9th edition of the Hurun Global Rich list ranked 2,816 billionaires from 71 countries and from 2,182 companies.