Telecom industry has gone through massive upheaval: Sunil Bharti Mittal

Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman of Bharti Airtel spoke to NDTV Profit on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum and spoke on a range of issues from policy in India to challenges in the telecom industry.

Speaking to NDTV’s Ira Dugal at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Jamshyd Godrej, Chairman of Godrej and Boyce Manufacturing said that the developing countries are moving quite well and so the focus will always be where the growth is.

Speaking to NDTV’s Ira Dugal at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mittal said that the government is aware about the policy issues and is confident that they would be sorted out soon. “I’m not worried much about India’s future growth,” he added.

Speaking to NDTV’s Shweta Rajpal Kohli at the World Economic Forum in Davos before President Obama's address, Premji said the US is over-sensitive on the loss of jobs and the issue will be hyped up even more as the elections are coming.

"The way trends are going, in ten years, the economies of emerging worlds will be in excess of $20 trillion...," said economist Nouriel Roubini.

There's a sense at the heavily guarded World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alps that free markets are on trial.

He said 400 million new jobs could be needed to be generated in next 10 years.

“The French-German alliance should stay strong, which is really important for the stability of the euro," he said.

"They (TCS) have given exceptional results... kudos to them on that," Mr Premji said.

Protest organizer David Roth told said that his group hadn't decided yet whether to accept.

As global CEOs arrive in Davos, labour leaders from across the world plan to press for immediate steps to generate new jobs and end income inequality.

Half a dozen demonstrators made a brief appearance outside the security perimeter.

And now the Occupy movement has come to the World Economic Forum, an annual gathering of 2,600 decision-makers from nearly 100 countries that starts Wednesday.

The eviction of Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park in November left protesters without the physical birthplace of the movement around which to rally, and put something of a chill on the endeavor. In Switzerland, protesters of the World Economic Forum have made the movement even chillier.

An igloo protest camp sprouting up amid $500-a-night hotels and security cordons at the Swiss resort of Davos seems to serve a warning to the world's rich and powerful gathering here: Beware, or you might be sleeping in the snow next year, too.

Over 100 Indian business leaders will be heading for the Swiss resort of Davos for the World Economic Forum

As per a 'Call for Action' report published by Geneva-based World Economic Forum (WEF) ahead of its annual summit in Davos, Switzerland, next week, "The world faces significant and urgent challenges that weigh heavily on prospects for future growth and on the cohesion of our societies." Among the major challenges for 2012, the report listed out issues like deceleratin...

Spurred by the popularity of Mahatma Gandhi at the recent World Economic Forum, whichdisplayed statues of the Indian leader at various venues, the Davos City Council has approved setting up a permanent Gandhi monument there."Indian artists Ram Sutar and Anil Sutar are working with The Itinerant Museum of Art to create a Gandhi monument for Davos to...

A former member of the group that created WikiLeaks has launched a rival website with the aim of giving whistleblowers more control over the secrets they spill.           Daniel Domscheit-Berg says the new platform called OpenLeaks will allow sources to choose specifically who they want to submit do...