Nivedita Bhasin: The inspiration behind female pilots
Nivedita Bhasin became the youngest commercial airline captain in the world in 1989....
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India ranks 74 on global Energy Transition Index: WEF
India has progressed in relation to all important parameters such as economic growth, energy security and environmental sustainability...
WEF’s blockchain toolkit to maintain supply chain resilience during crisis
Supply chain resilience largely depends on trust, transparency and integrity which can be improved using the technology...
World Logistics Passport to boost South-South trade using Dubai’s expertise
Customs World, DP World and Emirates Group will help partner countries to improve their trade capabilities...
UAE ranks first globally in mobile broadband subscriptions
According to the Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2019, the UAE ranks second in mobile cellular telephone subscriptions...
WEF launches forum to help African startups compete globally
WEF African Growth Platform will bring together governments, investors, and entrepreneurs to the ease funding...
Discovering the ‘modern-day Marie Curies’
Amazon and WISE partner to launch Women in Innovation, which seeks to illuminate ‘untold’ female contribution, in STEM fields in the UK...
WEF report highlights cyber threat in the next five years
Experts say critical infrastructures are not potent enough to fight inimical cyberattacks and become less vulnerable...
How can cities leverage the potential of the ‘sharing economy’?
Case studies from several cities show how sharing is transforming citizens’ lives and boosting economies...
Colombia launches partnership to protect Amazon rainforest from deforestation
The government aims to have zero net deforestation in the Amazon by 2020, and to have stopped all natural forest loss by 2030...