ET Awards: India Inc discusses strategy as FM Sitharaman signals readiness for reforms amid rising global uncertaintyIndia's finance minister has urged industry leaders to engage in open dialogue. Discussions at the Economic Times Awards focused on navigat...
27 Apr, 2026, 02.14 PM IST
India eyes 20 more countries for open market access in next big trade betIndia is negotiating with twenty additional nations for market access and trade expansion. Union Minister Piyush Goyal stated these talks b...
10 Apr, 2026, 12.01 PM IST
Island nations, not much at sea: Climate compensation demand by Melanesian countries doesn’t quite add upIsland nations are seeking climate change compensation from large emitters, arguing their existence is threatened by rising sea levels. How...
18 Dec, 2024, 11.36 PM IST
Urban carbon emission: The rich are hot, the poor cool?It is the poor who are often blamed for their practices. It's time the rich do their bit to make our cities more bearable.
22 Apr, 2022, 11.12 PM IST
India’s per capita income to drop by 5.4% in FY21: ReportSBI’s economics wing expects the inequality gap in India to narrow down post Covid-19.
23 Jun, 2020, 06.45 PM IST
Will India get old before it gets rich?To get to China’s current per capita income, India’s income will have to rise by 8.8% every year for 10 years and to reach US’s current lev...
02 Feb, 2020, 02.44 PM IST
India’s wealth rose 211% in last 15 yearsSome of the major western countries have seen a marginal increase in their wealth over the last decade and a half. Japan saw its wealth inc...
29 Oct, 2015, 10.26 AM IST
India among top 10 in total individual wealth globally: ReportIndia is among the top 10 nations in terms of total private wealth held, but at the bottom in terms of per capita riches, says a report.
28 Oct, 2015, 07.06 PM IST
Greenhouse gases: India fourth biggest emitter, but lags far behind top threeThough the data cannot be used as an excuse by India for not acting against its emission, but will give it an upper hand while negotiating ...
25 Jun, 2015, 01.50 PM IST
Nominal tax on super rich can lift 9 crore out of poverty: ReportLevying a wealth tax of 1.5 per cent on super rich could help attain the objective of raising people out of extreme poverty.
10 Nov, 2014, 05.25 PM IST
- India's per capita power consumption among lowest: Venugopal
Union Minister of State for Power K C Venugopal today said India's per capita consumption of power is among the lowest in the world and the...
05 Nov, 2011, 07.15 PM IST
- UN lays bare rich nations' low carbon credit targets
How ambitious are the emission reduction targets rich nations are ready to adopt for 2020? Pretty low, suggests a technical report that the...
22 Jun, 2011, 03.22 PM IST
- Rich and poor gap widens, failure in policy planning: Study
The gap between the rich and the poor has widened in the last 25 years even as poverty and backwardness are concentrated in 15 states, a st...
21 Sep, 2008, 11.57 AM IST
- Gap between rich and poor widening: ADB
The disparity between haves and have nots has risen considerably in the decade ending 2004, though the number of people living below povert...
16 Jul, 2008, 06.38 PM IST
- UP, Bihar, MP had lowest per head income in FY'07: Assocham
Mineral-rich states Jharkhand and Orissa grew at the fastest pace in terms of per capita income due to increased industrial activity. Day i...
21 Jan, 2008, 10.13 PM IST
- Rich nations must bear bulk of carbon adjustment costs: Stern
We need to cut down the total amount of carbon emissions by half by 2050.
05 Nov, 2007, 04.07 AM IST
- Faridabad sixth-richest city!
It's true that Faridabad is sixth among top 10 cities with the highest per capita expenditure in the region.
25 Aug, 2006, 10.20 AM IST