ET GBS 2020: Here's what happened on Day 1
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PM Narendra Modi at ET GBS
PM Modi says the country is going through massive change. India has become an important part of the global economy. The changing global situation is going through a churning. We have taken measures to reduce its impact on the economy.
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Vineet Jain, MD, Times Group
Green shoots are visible in the Indian economy despite global headwinds, Times Group managing director Vineet Jain said at The Economic Times Global Business Summit on Friday.
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Steve Schwarzman
Steve Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder, Blackstone Group in Conversation with Bodhisatva Ganguli, Executive Editor, The Economic Times. The Blackstone Group, the world’s largest alternative asset management company, will double investments in India’s commercial real estate sector in 3-5 years, its chairman said.
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Cherie Blair
Setting the let’s-notbeat-about-the-bush tone that’s become the hallmark of ET GBS, human rights lawyer Cherie Blair went to the heart of gender inequality: every woman’s need for financial independence. Her speech kicking off this year’s theme of ‘Sustainable Growth in a Fractured World’ was essentially a war cry to everyone to make it easier for women ‘to access capital’
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Andy Puddicombe on meditation
“Everybody (in India) knows what meditation and its benefits are, but not that many are doing it,” said Headspace cofounder Andy Puddicombe.
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The panel discussion
Panel discussion: (L-R) Ronnie Screwvala, Binod Chaudhuri, Neeraj Aggarwal, Sunil Munjal, Sunita Reddy