She also remembered the young Pakistani victim Malala Yousafzai while addressing the gathering at the annual WEF meeting.

The policymakers need to take urgent steps to make equities more attractive to wean away the investors' interest from an idle asset like gold and channelise the Indian savings into the country's equity markets, top banker Uday Kotak said here.

Pascal Lamy, director-general, World Trade Organization, spoke to NDTV's Namrata Brar on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland about the Doha round of negotiations, which aims to lower trade barriers around the world to facilitate global trade. Here's the edited transcript of the interview: