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Since returning from this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, I have been asked repeatedly for my biggest takeaways. Among the most widely discussed issues this year was artificial intelligence (AI), especially generative AI (GenAI).

Budget Expectations: Following the success of production-linked incentive (PLI) schemes, the government needs to prepare the ground for employment-linked incentive schemes in the upcoming interim budget to spur employment generation and drive more people towards formalisation, said experts. «Several initiatives have been undertaken to spur employment generation in the country. Employment-linked incentives can be instrumental in encouraging micro, small and medium enterprises and developing sectors that have the potential to create a large number of jobs,» said R Mukundan, chairman of the CII National Committee on Industrial Relations. He said the government needs to build on its initiatives with additional incentives. Also read: Govt's formal job scheme may get extension

The CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is calling on billionaires to give away more of their money to address inequality and to do it soon

Education is a basic right, and making it available to everyone is a responsibility we all share. It's like a tool that can help us tackle many of the world's problems, such as poverty and inequality. Every year, we celebrate the International Day of Education on January 24 to remind us why education is so important. As we get ready for this special day, let's take a closer look at some important details. Date

Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao (Save the Girl Child, Educate the Girl Child). National Girl Child Day was established by the Ministry of Women and Child Development in 2008. Since then, every year the day has been celebrated across India with a common annual theme.

Kailash Satyarthi on Monday said “Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Pran Pratishtha… is definitely a historic day", adding that "our resolve should be to make the world violence-free". He was in the holy city of Ayodhya to attend the historic celebration of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Pran Pratishtha ceremony. "Sumedha ji and I are in Ayodhya.

elite where the air is thin, and so are the excuses for attending. Of late, a new recreational sport has developed out of the annual World Economic Forum (WEF, not WFH) summit held in the Swiss ski resort: Davos-dissing (DD). This year it's as trendy as a Hermes Togo Birkin 20 black bag.

told one user the information was "simply not accurate" and called the original Bloomberg report "fake news" in reply to another. Also Read | Elon Musk looking for 25% voting share at Tesla ahead of AI, robotics growth Bloomberg had earlier reported that xAI is in discussions for a valuation ranging between $15-20 billion and that the start-up has purportedly secured $500 million in commitments from investors, aiming for a total of $1 billion. This was rejected as fake news by Musk.

The Time Magazine, ending poverty – the target for which is 2030 under the UN Sustainable Development Goals – may not be possible for another 229 years. The report mentioned that the world got its first billionaire John D Rockefeller in 1916, when he achieved the status largely through his ownership of Standard Oil. ALSO READ: Davos 2024: Oxfam asks governments to control corporate power, break up monopolies as WEF heads for annual summit Following this, the concern over systemic exploitation lurking behind the widening wealth gap due to the rise of ultra-rich people began.

Sheryl Sandberg, who helped to transform Facebook from a tech startup into a digital advertising empire, will step down from the board of Meta, Facebook’s parent company

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued a significant warning about the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the global job market. In a recent report, the IMF projected that nearly 40% of jobs worldwide could be affected by AI, with this figure rising to 60% in advanced economies like the UK​​​​​​.

The world might see its first trillionaire sooner than you think

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says concerns that artificial intelligence will one day become so powerful that it will dramatically reshape and disrupt the world are overblown.

The world could have its first trillionaire within a decade, anti-poverty organization Oxfam International said Monday in its annual assessment of global inequalities timed to the gathering of political and business elites at the Swiss ski resort of Davos.

By Mark John

The anti-poverty organization Oxfam International says the world could have its first trillionaire within a decade

jobs worldwide will be affected by artificial intelligence (AI), with advanced economies facing more exposure than emerging markets and low-income countries, as per a Bloomberg report. Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the IMF expressed concerns in a blog post, stating that in most scenarios, AI is likely to worsen overall inequality. This troubling trend, she suggests, requires proactive measures from policymakers to prevent the technology from exacerbating social tensions.

Oxfam said. An Oxfam report, which comes as business elites gather this week for the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, found that a billionaire is now either running, or is the main shareholder of, 7 out of 10 of the world's biggest companies.

Duvvuri Subba Rao, Former RBI Governor, says “we have to grow fast because as much as we are a large economy, we are also a poor society. India has by per capita income, we are about 139 in the League of Countries. We are the poorest country in the BRICS. We are the poorest in G20. So we have to lift poverty. We have to grow fast. Compared with the rest of the world, it is good but that is not good enough. I believe that for India to grow faster, we want a stable geopolitical environment and a stable environment around the world because if you look at India's performance over the last 25 years, India has had stable high growth when the world was growing.” Everybody is applauding the kind of growth we are seeing. Several agencies including our own RBI Governor have upgraded the India growth outlook very recently in the last Monetary Policy Meet. But the overall global environment is not in very good shape. How challenging will it be for us as an economy to outperform a global gloomy backdrop? Duvvuri Subba Rao: Thank you for that question. We heard it from a number of people including the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister that India is the fastest growing large economy in the world. As you said, the RBI expects the economy to grow by 7 plus percent this year. That is all very good. But you also referred to the global situation. The point is that, yes, we must grow faster.

Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra from Manipur, the Congress on Saturday said it was an ideological yatra and not an electoral one, and asserted that it was being taken out against the «anyay kaal» of 10 years of the Narendra Modi government. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said the biggest challenge before the country is that it is facing an ideology which believes in polarisation, economic inequalities and political authoritarianism. «The prime minister shows golden dreams of 'amrit kaal' but what is the reality of the last 10 years — 'anyay kaal'.

WMO) has officially confirmed that 2023 is the hottest year on record by a huge margin, smashing global temperature records. The yearly average global temperature approached 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, which is significant because the Paris Agreement on climate change aims to limit the long-term temperature increase to no more than the same amount. According to the agreement, the long-term increase is calculated as an average over decades rather than an individual year like 2023.