SpiceJet chief Ajay Singh emphasises that India needs to be connected more directly within as well as outside the country.

"We are happy to pay more tax, whatever the world agrees to," Pichai said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, noting that the company's current blended global tax rate is 20 percent.

Congress leader P Chidambaram today took a swipe at Narendra Modi for his attempts to woo investors at Davos, saying that on the day the Prime Minister invited world business to India, Ahmedabad was hit by mob violence and moral policing was witnessed in Uttar Pradesh.