"Unbelievable", "embarrassing" even "dangerous" are some of the words the financial elite gathered at the World Economic Forum conference in the Swiss resort of Davos have been using to describe US Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday that initial talks in Geneva involving the Syrian government and opposition groups would be "proximity talks", not a face-to-face meeting of participants.

Indian economy needs multiple engines of growth while the government focus now is on reviving private investments, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday.