Kiran Mazumdar Shaw's wealth rose by 41 per cent; The pharma tycoon was followed closely by the Godrej heir Smita V Crishna

Some 500,000 doses made by SII, the world's largest vaccine producer, are set to arrive in Canada on Wednesday, a surprise boost for Canada's lagging vaccination drive

China has given conditional approval for a single dose COVID-19 vaccine, touted to be a rival to Johnson & Johnson's one-jab shot cleared by the US drug regulator

The report, compiled in collaboration with UNESCO's Global Education Monitoring report, said the current levels of government spending in low and lower-middle income countries fall short of those required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

The Food and Drug Administration is expected to quickly follow the recommendation and make J&J's shot the third vaccine authorised for emergency use in the US

The Bombay Plan, authored by the doyens of industry in 1944 first envisioned state planning, state ownership and control of industries to make India \"self-sufficient\" long before Nehru's ideas took root

Absolute poverty has been eradicated in the world's most populous country, Xi announced while addressing a gathering held in Beijing to mark the country's accomplishments in poverty alleviation and honour its model poverty fighters

Jaishankar arrived here in India's strategically key maritime neighbour in the Indian Ocean region on Sunday night from the Maldives on the last leg of his two-nation tour

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince and de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman has put Public Investment Fund (PIF), Saudi Arabia's main sovereign wealth fund, at the centre of reforms aimed at diversifying the economy of the world's top oil exporter away from fossil fuel

On a caucus call on Tuesday, US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer discussed his push to direct Senate committees to draft a legislation to protect American jobs and outcompete China

Both the organisations are committed to investing significant capital into the JV over the next decade to build India's leading green data centre platform.

Up to 4 million Australians are expected to be inoculated by March, with Morrison among a small group receiving the first round of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine

New Zealand expects its nationwide rollout covering the country's population of 5 million will take a full year, while Australia aims to inoculate its 25 million citizens by October

Central European authorities warned on Friday that they are witnessing an increase in coronavirus infections across their region amid discovery of new variants

Private wealth creators are solely responsible for India's banking stress; increasingly fleeing India with their wealth and bank loans, and those making huge profits are doing so by cutting jobs and wages

The world's third-largest economy grew an annualised 12.7% in October-December, government data showed on Monday, exceeding a median market forecast for a 9.5% gain

Legitimate questions about the virus created perfect conditions for conspiracy theories. In the absence of knowledge, guesswork and propaganda flourished

In India, we are fortunate that supply of vaccines is not a rate-limiting step, but to meet the timelines set by the government, we will have to immunise somewhere between 4 and 5 times more people each day than we are doing today, says Gagandeep Kang of Christian Medical College in Vellore

The report by state media on Friday comes during the toughest period of Kim's nine-year rule

It is imperative that India can lean on and leverage its healthcare and logistics footprint and expertise to support the global fight against any pandemic