India in Social Mobility Index
India has been ranked very low at 76th place out of 82 countries on a new Social Mobility Index compiled by the World Economic Forum, while Denmark has topped the charts.
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#India #SocialMobilityIndex #WEF #DragsOnGrowth #SMI

India tests nuclear-missile from undersea pad
India tested its nuclear-capable K-4 submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), designed to have a strike range of 3,500 km, from an undersea platform in the shape of a submersible pontoon off the coast of Andhra Pradesh on 19 January 2020.
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#nuclear #missile #SLBM #India #SSBN #IndianNavy

India makes payment to WTO
India has made an advance payment of Swiss Franc 44,55,445 (about Rs 33 crore) as its contribution to the WTO for 2020, an official said. The payment was made in December last year.
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#WTO #India #GATT #budget #WorldTradeOrganisation

UN's decarbonisation target
At least $1 trillion of investments in new fuel technology is needed to enable the shipping industry to meet U.N. targets for cuts in carbon emissions by 2050, a study published on 20 January 2020 showed.
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#UN #CO2 #IMO #UCL #worldtrade #UMAS

'Time to Care' Study
India's richest 1 percent hold more than four-times the wealth held by 953 million people who make up for the bottom 70 per cent of the country's population, while the total wealth of all Indian billionaires is more than the full-year budget, a new study said on 20 January 2020.
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#TimetoCare #WEF #India #GDP #CEO #AmitabhBehar #OxfamInternational

WESO report
Global unemployment is projected to increase by around 2.5 million in 2020 and almost half a billion people are working fewer paid hours than they would like or lack adequate access to paid work, according to the UN's International Labour Organization report.
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#WESO #Organization #ILO #SDG #humantalent #WESOreport

India in corporate commitments to SBT
India has ranked 5th among the countries surveyed for corporate commitments to science-based targets (SBT), ahead of Germany and Sweden, according to a report by a non-profit organization released in Mumbai.
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#India #SBT #CDP #DamandeepSingh #Mumbai

Indians most-trusting in climate science The global public overwhelmingly blames global warming on human activities with trust level declining in climate science, but Indians are the most trusting people in this regard, a new opinion poll showed on 21 January 2020.
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#Indians #WEF #SAP #NGOs #trusting #climatescience

India among top 10 FDI recipients
India was among the top 10 recipients of Foreign Direct Investment in 2019, attracting $49 billion in inflows, a 16 per cent increase from the previous year, driving the FDI growth in South Asia, according to a UN report released.
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#FDI #UNCTAD #India #GTIM #SouthAsia #GDP

SC refuses to stay poll bond scheme
The Supreme Court refused to order an interim stay on the electoral bond scheme but decided to hear the matter after two weeks.
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#SC #CJI #SuryaKant #ADR #NGO #RanjanGogoi