The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released its latest report on Trends in International Arms Transfer, 2021, released in March 2022, reveals that India and Saudi Arabia had emerged as the largest arms importers of arms between 2017-21, each accounting for 11% of all ...

India has been ranked 120th in the Sustainable Development Report 2021 or Sustainable Development Index 2021 with a score of 60.07. Top performers: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and Belgium. Index measures the total progress of India ...

At 145 billionaires, India has the third-highest billionaire population globally, after US and China while the number of ultra-high net worth individuals with net assets of $30 million (Rs 226 crore) or more, increased 11% in 2021 on the back of a buoyant equity market and digital revolution, ...

Niti Aayog is in the process of developing a National Gender Index to measure the progress and identify the persisting gaps in gender equality to make informed policy decisions. In its latest annual report, Niti Aayog said the index will serve as a tool to map the progress of states and Union ...

The impact of the third wave of Covid on economic momentum may lower growth in the second half of the current fiscal (H2FY22), Brickwork ratings has said in a release. According to the ratings agency, with the upward revisions of the FY21 GDP growth by Mospi, they revise their GDP growth ...

India has improved its overall IP score from 38.4 per cent to 38.6 per cent, and the country is ranked 43 out of 55 countries on the International Intellectual Property Index, according to an annual report compiled by the influential US Chambers of Commerce on Thursday. US has topped the ...

India Ratings & Research (India Ratings) has revised downwards the GDP growth forecast of the country for 2021-22 (FY22) to 8.6 percent. Earlier this was projected at 9.2 percent. The National Statistical Organisation (NSO), which has forecast 9.2 per cent real GDP ...

The State Bank of India (SBI) Research Report, Ecowrap, has revised downwards the gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of India for FY22 (2021-22) to 8.8 percent. Earlier this was estimated at 9.3 percent. The real GDP will be around Rs 2.35 lakh crore more or ...

India has been ranked third in the world in the US Green Building Council’s annual list of top 10 nations and areas outside of the United States for LEED-certified green buildings in 2021.  Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is the most widely used ...

The managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of ICICI Bank Mr Sandeep Bakhshi has been named as the Business Standard Banker of the Year 2020-21. For 2020-21, ICICI Bank reported a net profit of Rs 16,193 crore against Rs 7,931 crore during the previous financial ...