Women made up 15.7 per cent of the Hurun Rich List, marginally up from last year's 15.5 per cent. Out of the list, 68 were self-made, up from last year's 56

Apple Inc. will open its first physical retail store in India in 2021, Chief Executive Tim Cook said; After a long wait, a special Air India flight carrying 119 Indians, who were stranded onboard a coronavirus-hit cruise ship, Diamond Princess, off Yokohama port in Japan finally landed in New Delhi on Thursday morning; Growing concerns inside the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank about the spread of the new coronavirus have prompted the institutions to consider scaling back their Spring Meetings in April or hold them by teleconference. Watch this and more news on News Blast.

US President Donald Trump praised Ritesh Agarwal for his work and said OYO Rooms is \"not such a small company\"

FM pulls up banks for 'blindly' following rating agencies; says they have lost local touchUnion Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has told banks they shouldn't blindly believe in \"credit scores\" of those seeking loans as branch-level connect with customers was more important. The FM rapped state-owned banks for being out of touch with customers at the ground level, saying they often failed to communicate government schemes to customers due to their inability to communicate in the loca...

India now has 138 billionaires putting it in the third place globally. Mukesh Ambani tops the list with USD 67 million in net worth, minting Rs 7 crore every hour

Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani was the only Indian to make into the top 10 rankings this year with a net worth of $67 billion

According to the new 2020 Hurun Global Rich List list, China had three times more billionaires than the US in 2019

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the world's wealthiest person, has purchased a Beverly Hills mansion known as the Warner Estate from media mogul David Geffen for $165 million, a source familiar with the deal said on Wednesday. The sale price is believed to be the highest in a Los Angeles-area residential real estate transaction; India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra), a part of Fitch Group, on Wednesday downgraded YES Bank's long-term issuer rating, while maintaining it on 'Rating Watch Negative' (RWN). The rating downgrade was attributed to continued delay and inconclusive quantum of the anticipated equity infusion in YES Bank; Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella is planning to visit India later this month according to Reuters. Nadella is planning to be in India between Feb 24 and Feb 26 and will likely visit New Delhi. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also read: Ratan Tata had nearly married, but 1962 Indo-China war changed thingsAlso read: Coronavirus scare: 'Help us, we want to go home,' 3 Indians isolated on British cruise ship in Japan tell PM Modi  

Nadella is planning to be in India between February 24 and February 26 and will likely visit New Delhi, tech hub Bengaluru and Mumbai

Pay taxes for India's development, says PM ModiWhile the previous governments had hesitated to touch the country's taxation system, the current BJP-led dispensation was making it more citizen centric, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday, urging people to pay their dues for the development of India. He lamented that when a number of people did not pay tax and found ways to evade it, \"the burden falls on those who honestly pay their dues\".WhatsApp garners 2 billion user...

The board of Amazon Seller Services has allotted shares worth about Rs 2,208 crore to Amazon Corporate Holdings and Amazon.com Inc

SBI chief, at an event held by Indian Banks' Association, says banks can achieve higher growth if they continue to make profits; lists out role of other players like states in supporting country's economic growth

India needs to fix skills gap; there's a need for partnerships between industry-government-academia as well as a focus on education and science, says Agarwal

Telegram's CEO Pavel Durav in an official blog has called out WhatsApp for misleading its customers in the name of end-to-end encryption

The latest discovery came to the fore after the alleged hacking of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos' phone due to flaw in WhatsApp.

UKIBC Chief Executive Officer Richard Heald said that the e-commerce sector has a tremendous potential, especially for the smaller businesses, who get a platform to sell their wares

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that India and China should not be considered developing nations by the World Trade Organisation (WTO). He made the remarks during a press conference on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum 2020 at Davos. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said the world will realise the true strategic and economic potential of his country when the relationship with India becomes normal, but that has \"unfortunately\" not been great. Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Alphabet Inc and its subsidiary Google, said on Wednesday that healthcare offers the biggest potential over the next five to 10 years for using artificial intelligence to improve outcomes, and vowed that the technology giant will heed privacy concerns. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also read: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos responds after reports of phone hacking by Saudi Crown Prince MBS Also Watch: Quantum computing and AI can solve the biggest problems: Sundar Pichai

'He is a clown and any number of his contemporaries from NSD and FTII can attest to his psychopathic nature,' Naseeruddin Shah said

Jeff Bezos India Visit: Jeff Bezos and girlfriend Lauren Sanchez visit the Taj Mahal in Agra as a part of the Amazon CEO's three day visit. Here's for more

WEF 2020: India Inc. urges reforms, rallying together to overcome economic gloomA day after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that sharp decline in the Indian economy pulled down the global growth forecasts for 2020, India Inc representatives at Davos said that it was important to look at medium and long term outlook and rally together as a country. In conversation with India Today News Director Rahul Kanwal at the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), le...