PM Modi will address the meeting virtually on January 28. The other high-profile leaders who have signed up for the virtual session at 51st WEF includes, Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, Narendra Singh Tomar, and Smriti Irani

Canada and the United States will continue this partnership as we fight the global COVID-19 pandemic and support a sustainable economic recovery that will build back better for everyone, said Canadian PM Justin Trudeau

Soon after his inauguration, Biden is expected to issue an executive order to begin rejoining the 2015 climate pact, reversing a decision by climate-change skeptic Donald Trump

Addressing a press meet on the eve of 'Five years of Paris Agreement', Prakash Javadekar said India is \"walking the talk\" on climate change as it has already achieved 21 per cent of its target of reducing emissions intensity of GDP by 33-35 per cent by 2030

The announcement by the Philippines-headquartered lender came a week after Pakistan secured USD 800 million worth of debt freeze deals from 14 members of the G20

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to these facilities and discussions with the scientists are to help him get a first-hand perspective of the preparations, challenges and roadmap in India's vaccination plans

Byju's has raised $500 million in a fresh funding round from private equity (PE) players BlackRock and T. Rowe Price; With one million Twitter followers, the Reserve Bank of India has become the world's first central bank to achieve the milestone; India's macroeconomic situation is improving fast and the country's GDP growth will turn positive in the third and fourth quarters of the current financial year, eminent economist Ashima Goyal said on Sunday. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: India likely to report current account surplus for FY21: CEA

The prime minister said that India is following the same principle in the 'Reform-Perform-Transform' strategy to move forward and taking inclusive development efforts that are participative

At the event titled \"Safeguarding the Planet,\" PM Modi mentioned India's achievement of meeting the goal of 175 gigawatts of renewable energy before the target of 2022, and promised \"a big step ahead by seeking to achieve 450 gigawatts by 2030\"

Pakistan along with 76 other poor African countries had qualified for the G-20 debt relief initiative, announced in April this year for May-December 2020 period, to combat the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic

World Bank President David Malpass warned that debt challenges were becoming more frequent, and failure to provide more permanent debt relief left a bleak outlook for reducing poverty

The twin crises of the pandemic and an uneven, uncertain global recovery dominated the first day of a two-day summit under the chairmanship of Saudi Arabia, which hands off the rotating presidency of the G20 to Italy next month

Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to India Saud bin Mohammed Al Sati said the virtual summit on November 21-22 will largely focus on addressing the implications of the coronavirus pandemic and future health care plans

Speaking at a news conference after a meeting of the IMF's steering committee, Georgieva also called on the United States and China to keep up strong economic stimulus that could help boost a global recovery

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Coronavirus vaccine update: AstraZeneca has signed a memorandum of understanding with WHO's COVAX Facility to supply 300 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines

Nirmala Sitharaman said that it is imperative that this consensus-based solution should be simple, inclusive and based on a robust economic impact assessment

Addressing the Annual UK-India Day during India Global Week 2020 on Friday, the senior Cabinet minister acknowledged India's help at the height of the coronavirus pandemic with vital supplies of paracetamol

US President Donald Trump's announcement to end support for WHO is a reminder for the much-needed reforms in the agency's financial structure

India's GDP growth may bounce back to 6.9 per cent in 2021 as gradual recovery is expected to start from the second half of this year, says Moody's