Cooperation Needed To Deal With Future Outbreaks: Adar Poonawalla

Vaccine maker Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla has called for global harmonisation or regulatory standards and said that cooperation among multilateral organisations is a must for dealing with future outbreaks.

Global leaders and business executives departed a freezing World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting on Friday after a frank exchange of views over how the world will tackle its biggest issues in 2023.

Gautam Adani, the Indian tycoon who is now Asia's richest person, called on his government to align with local businesses and seize the opportunity as China slows and global alliances fracture.

Union Minister Smriti Irani in an interview with NDTV said the "India story" is "setting Davos on fire" as four ministers, including herself, work to highlight the strengths of India's economy and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's agenda.

Ukraine President said he does not quite understand if Russian President Vladimir Putin is alive. Russia hit back, slamming Zelensky's remarks.

Albert Bourla, Chief Executive Officer of US-based pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, encountered a series of tough questions about the efficacy of its Covid vaccine on the sidelines of the ongoing World Economic Forum, but he repeatedly ignored them.

People at Davos have a tendency to overstate the importance of the gathering, and they have perhaps been spoiled by the obsession Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump, showed with the place.

Despite the urgent need for climate finance, numerous barriers have impeded the flow of private capital to decarbonisation projects around the world and especially in the Global South, experts and business leaders noted.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg accused attendees of the World Economic Forum in Davos of "fuelling the destruction of the planet" as she arrived at the event in the Swiss Alps on Thursday.

The minister said other countries, including China, had also raised the issue of settling non-oil trade payments in local currencies.

Prajakta Koli is part of the delegation of YouTube stars covering World Economic Forum's annual meeting at Davos

Uber has worked to cut costs for months, early enough relative to others that a memo the CEO wrote on this tougher stance "landed a bit like a lead balloon initially," Dara Khosrowshahi saidon the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting.

An Indian farmer recently used a ChatGPT interface to access an opaque government programme via the internet despite knowing only a local dialect, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella said on Wednesday.

During a speech on Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos, Ms Zelenska said she had a letter for Xi but she gave new details during a press conference on Wednesday.

Over 93 per cent of cybersecurity experts and 86 per cent of business leaders believe "a far-reaching, catastrophic cyber event is likely in the next two years" and there is a critical skills gap that is threatening societies and key infrastructure.

The Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Gita Gopinath, is currently in Davos for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. "We have a tough year ahead, but there are signs of resilience," she said.

Gogoro and Belrise have inked a deal with the government of Maharashtra to set up battery swapping infrastructure across the state. The infrastructure deployment will be the world's largest sustainability-focused portable energy system to date, Gogoro claimed in a statement.

Mr Ramaphosa was supposed to head a South African group to the Swiss town to pitch the nation as an investment location.

Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday invited global leaders to partner with India to make the world a healthier place and said the government is institutionalising medical tourism through a new 'Heal In India' initiative.

"Is it all gloom and doom? Not probably...If Mr Putin decides to end the war, there would be certainly an upside," Raghuram Rajan noted.