The PepsiCo's India-born CEO became the school's biggest alumni donor and the first woman to endow a deanship at a top b-school.

In the consumer tech segment is 22-year-old Ritesh Agarwal, the founder and CEO of OYO Rooms, billed to be the Airbnb of India. In a country that lacks a steady supply of budget hotel chains, Oyo has developed a network of 2,200 small hotels in 100 cities across India, Forbes said.

With the start of the new year, the ambitious goals aim to end poverty, hunger and assure gender equally while building a life of dignity for all over the next 15 years.

The lawsuit alleges the company pressurised consumers into buying unnecessary software, a charge denied as false and baseless by the firm.

India stood behind Kazakhstan and Ghana, scoring poorly on metrics like trade and monetary freedom and tackling challenges like corruption and violence.

The United Nations World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) 2016 report said that India will record a 7.3 per cent economic growth in 2016 and 7.5 per cent in 2017.

61-year-old Merkel, one of the most powerful women in the world, is the first female Person of the Year in almost three decades.

The organisation owed a total of $1.03 billion to 86 member states. The largest amount owed was to Pakistan at $97 million; followed by Ethiopia at $87 million.

Addressing students in New York, the Minister of State for Finance listed initiatives like universal social security, 'Make in India' and agriculture credit taken by the government to boost economic growth of the country.

PM Modi invited corporate leaders of America's defence sector to manufacture in India saying that the country is ready to embark on a massive defence modernisation programme.

During his stay in New York for next two days, Modi will attend a roundtable on the financial sector, an important meeting with FIIs keen to invest in India.

Gupta's lawyer Gary Naftalis filed the fresh appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Tuesday against the July 2, 2015 ruling by a District Court.

Fast moving consumer goods company Hindustan Unilever has been ranked 41, followed by TCS at rank 64 and Sun Pharma at rank 71 in the Forbes list of The Worlds Most Innovative Companies which has been topped by the Elon Musk-led Tesla Motors.

The inaugural list by Forbes has been topped by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

Pichai is only the third chief executive officer of Google after Schmidt and co-founder Larry Page.

US District Judge Jed Rakoff, who had presided over Gupta's 2012 trial and sentenced him to two years' imprisonment, said in his ruling that even though Gupta is a \"man of many laudable qualities\", the \"hard fact remains\" that he committed a serious crime.

The IT firm said it recognises India as a \"growth opportunity\", over the potential of combining technological tools with the country's ambitious campaigns like 'Make in India' and 'Digital India'.

Company COO Kevin Turner has asserted that the technology giant is restructuring its phones business for profitable growth and will focus on only a few devices that will grab market share.

Listing the three bold ambitions for Microsoft, Nadella, said one ambition is personal computing, which is the very core of our company.

US District Judge said that Gupta's argument that the evidence of personal benefits presented at the trial was insufficient to sustain his conviction calling it \"both too late and too little\".