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While the PM Modi deserves credit for changing the mood around in India, crashing oil prices have helped India too, giving our oil guzzling country a fresh lease of life.

Report Indicating acute shortage of skilled workforce, India has been ranked 78th globally in terms of talent competitiveness of its human capital, while Switzerland has topped the charts.

Chief executives are more worried than a year ago about the global economic outlook, as deflation stalks Europe and commodity prices wilt, but the United States stands out as a bright spot.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis leaves for the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday morning. This will be his first foreign tour after taking over as Chief Minister of Maharashtra last year.

This time the World Economic Forum is expected to receive over 40 heads of states and some 2,500 additional participants.

Sitharaman also said that a permanent solution on the issue of public stockholding for food security purposes was critical and should be addressed on priority.

As the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting begins here on a sunny day on Tuesday after days of heavy snowfall, six sessions will be open for the general public at the highly secured and otherwise invitation-only summit.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who is leading the government's delegation to the World Economic Forum, is speaking to global investors at Davos. Here are the key takeaways from Mr Jaitley's interaction.

With the World Economic Forum's annual meeting starting here on Tuesday, nearly 2,000 private jets are on the job to ferry the rich and powerful of the world to this Alpine resort town, while the Swiss Army is using its own choppers to carry many public figures.

Once famous for being a summer health resort, Davos has gradually emerged as a major winter sport hub on Alps, but its biggest claim to fame for the past four decades has been World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting every January, beginning 1971.

A sharp plunge in oil prices is likely to transfer $1.5 trillion of wealth to consumers, bringing the US back as global growth engine while India is the most promising story among emerging markets, says a study.

Isha Ambani, daughter of billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani, is among the youngest business leaders present and her name incidentally comes first among Indians on the official list of participants at this year's WEF Annual Meeting, arranged alphabetically.

The annual Edelman Trust Barometer, released in Davos, showed a sharp decline in trust across the board with faith in governments, business, media and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) below 50 per cent in two-thirds of countries.

The armed forces' operation here includes protecting facilities and individuals, safeguarding air sovereignty, securing Swiss airspace, and with logistics, primarily through its Coordinated Medical Services (CMS), the Swiss Army said.

The increased valuation of Swiss franc -- to its highest level in about 30 years -- has led to costs moving up the slope for everything. From taxi to hotels to stay to food, cost of everything is going up for about 3,000 persons, including 2,500 business and political leaders from across the globe, who are here for World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting.

International Labour Organization Director-General Guy Ryder, speaking in Geneva before heading to attend the Alpine conference, said a feature of the annual meeting was the glaring gap between words and actions of participants over the issue.

Speaking on the eve of an annual gathering of the world's financial and political elites in Switzerland's Davos, Klaus Schwab also told The Associated Press that the big risk now is the world moving into a cycle of deflation.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu will leave for Davos early on Tuesday to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) as a special invitee at the annual meet that sees dozens of heads of state, corporate leaders and experts discuss a range of issues.

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In its 2015 Global Risks Report, published Thursday, the WEF found "interstate conflict with regional consequences" to be the top risk facing the world, ahead of extreme weather, the spread of infectious diseases, climate change and sky-high youth unemployment levels in some parts of the world.