The US Senate has unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution designating September 30 as 'US-India Partnership Day' recognizing the contribution of the two countries to one another and the relationship that will continue to help define the 21st century. Read More ....
NEW DELHI: India has displaced Japan to become the world's third biggest economy in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP), according to a World Bank report released on Tuesday. The 2011 round of the bank's International Comparison Program (ICP) ranked India after the US and China. The last survey in 2005 had placed the country on 10th place.
PPP is used to compare economies and incomes of people by adjusting for differences in prices in different countries to make a meaningful comparison. India's share in World GDP in terms of PPP was 6.4% in 2011 compared with China's 14.9% and the US' 17.1%, the latest ICP showed. The survey covered 199 economies.
"The United States remained the world's largest economy, but it was closely followed by China when measured using PPPs. India was now the world's third largest economy, moving ahead of Japan," the report said.
Source: The Economic Times
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister designate Narendra Modi is the sixth most followed leader on Twitter globally, according to a survey by Twiplomacy, a study of world leaders on the microblogging site. Modi's Twitter handle @narendramodi has 4,240,643 followers, with a weekly growth of 6.77%, monthly increase of 12.22% and quarterly growth of 24.26%.GDIACC is now offering group health insurance plans to all members!
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