Tamil Nadu's automotive industry, which is a $3 trillion industry globally, has emerged as a significant player over the years, along with electronics industry, which stands at $2.7 trillion globally. Watch as experts including Dr Preetha Reddy, Vice-Chairperson Apollo Hospitals Group; Dr S Christopher, Ex-chairman, DRDO; Gopal Srinivasan, Chairman and MD, TVS Capital Funds Limited; Josh Foulger, Country Head and Managing Director, Foxconn International Holding, India; Madan R Krishnan, Vice President and Managing Director, Medtronic India; Vivek Partheeban, COO, Caplin Point Laboratories Ltd; Francisco Betti, Head - Shaping the Future of Advanced Manufacturing and Production, World Economic Forum; K Shanmugam, Ex-Chief Secretary, Tamil Nadu discuss how emerging markets have become key players for the state's economic growth.Also Read: Business Today honours business leaders of Tamil Nadu

Speaking at the World Economic Forum, Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google and Alphabet in the session 'An Insight, An Idea' , talks about the power of technology, technological innovation and being a 'technology optimistic' himself. Highlighting Artificial Intelligence, he says that the real potential of AI is yet to be discovered and that we are still at a very early stage of AI. It will take about 10-15 years for AI to finally come into play and solve  problems of the future. Also Watch: Quantum computing and AI can solve the biggest problems: Sundar Pichai

The responsibility of skilling, reskilling, and upskilling the workforce in the post-pandemic world lies not just with governments but employees and companies as well. The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2020 states that 43 per cent of the businesses surveyed are set to reduce their workforce, and 34 percent plan to expand their workforce due to technology integration. Watch as experts like Salil Parekh, Guy Ryder, Director-General of ILO and others discuss how businesses and governments can collaborate to retrain workers and redeploy them for jobs of the future.Also Read: Economic Survey 2020-21: Higher GDP, lower interest rates counterbalance rising public debt

Bharti Airtel added more new subscribers as compared to market leader Reliance Jio for the fourth consecutive month in November; The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is investigating e-commerce giant Amazon for alleged violation of foreign exchange laws in its dealings with Kishore Biyani-led Future Retail; After a record September quarter, Apple has doubled its business in October - December 2020 quarter (also referred as Apple's Q1 2021) in India. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: Economic Survey: India's real economic growth to be 11% in FY22

Wooing corporate leaders attending the special address, PM Modi emphasised that India has implemented several reforms that have created conducive environment for business and investments

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that India not only managed to beat the COVID-19 crisis, but also helped over 150 countries in the process. Addressing the World Economic Forum's Davos Dialogue via video conference, PM Modi said that at the beginning of the pandemic, global experts had predicted that India would face a tsunami of coronavirus cases, but with the use of public participation and technology for testing and tracking, the country was able to turn the fight against COVID-19 into a mass movement. Watch the video for more.Also Read: WEF Davos Agenda: India will supply many more COVID-19 vaccines to world, says PM Modi

Agriculture minister of India, Narendra Singh Tomar, discussed ways to strengthen the agricultural infrastructure in India at the 51st World Economic Forum. Tomar talked about the government's efforts to deliver soil health cards to farmers and its emphasis on the R&D sector. He also added that a fund of Rs 1 lakh crore has been added to the Atmanirbhar Bharat package to strengthen the crops storage infrastructure and reduce post-harvesting losses. Watch the video for more.Also Read: WEF Davos Agenda LIVE: Industrial Revolution 4.0 to aid Atmanirbhar Bharat, says PM Modi

With India's success, I am also assuring the world that the conditions on the economic front will also change rapidly now, PM Modi said during his address at WEF's Davos Agenda Summit

We trained our human resources to fight coronavirus; Indian vaccines are saving lives around the world, says PM Modi

WEF 2021: Dharmendra Pradhan says it's been policy of government to focus on reskilling and upskilling; Infosys CEO Salil Parekh says Indian tech major is making sure it's doing its bit by offering its new skilling platform to be used by all its workers and students across India

Over 400 top industry leaders from across the globe will attend the session, where the PM Modi will talk about the 'Fourth Industrial Revolution - using technology for the good of humanity'

While speaking at a panel discussion on 'Implementing Stakeholder Capitalism' at the World Economic Forum's virtual Davos Agenda Summit, the Mumbai-based business magnate said it is in everyone's interest to grow businesses in a sustainable manner

Announcing the details during its online Davos Agenda Summit, the WEF said a total of 61 business leaders have so far committed to the core Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics

In the \"Restoring Economic Growth (Option 1)\" session, the textile minister said that despite initial fears about the scale of the pandemic making it difficult to coordinate responses, India is proof that when government and citizens come together, much can be done

Oxfam's 'The Inequality Virus' report said it would take an unskilled worker 10,000 years to make what businessman Mukesh Ambani made in an hour during the pandemic and three years to make what he made in a second

India had put in place one of the most stringent lockdowns to curb the spread of infections, but it also triggered unemployment, hunger, distress migration and untold hardship in its wake.

As per the government's norms, it is mandatory for a foreign vaccine-making firm to conduct at least a Phase-3 trial with Indian volunteers even if it is approved outside India

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

Market regulator SEBI gave a go-ahead on Wednesday to Future Group's scheme of arrangement and sale of assets to Reliance; The World Economic Forum (WEF) has warned that infectious diseases, environmental risks, and economic troubles including livelihood and debt crises stand as the highest risks for the next ten years; Democrat Joe Biden was sworn in as president of the United States on Wednesday, vowing to end the 'uncivil war' in a deeply divided country reeling from a battered economy and a raging coronavirus pandemic. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: Economic recovery in FY22 to be V (vaccine)-shaped: RBI

SEBI approves Reliance-Future deal, BSE grants 'no-adverse-observation' status Market regulator SEBI gave a go-ahead on Wednesday to Future Group's scheme of arrangement and sale of assets to Reliance, based on which the Bombay Stock Exchange also granted its \"no adverse observation\" report to the Rs 24,713-crore deal. Amazon had written several letters to the SEBI and other regulatory agencies to suspend their review of the deal and not grant it a no objection certification on ground tha...