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  World Happiness Report 2024: Which are the happiest countries and what is India's rank? | Check LIST

  World | March 20, 2024 12:39 IST

  According to the World Happiness Report, happiness levels have fallen in North America and Western Europe, but they have risen significantly in Western and Central Europe. Afghanistan remains the world's least happiest country with a humanitarian crisis since the Taliban took power.

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  Pakistan among top five countries in Global Terrorism Index 2024, check out India's rank

  World | March 06, 2024 14:53 IST

  According to the report, deaths from terrorism increased by 22 per cent to 8,352 deaths and are now at their highest level since 2017. However, the number of terrorist attacks has fallen by 22 per cent to 3,350 last year, reflecting an intensification of terrorism.

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  COP28: India moves up one spot to rank 7th in Climate Change Performance Index 2024

  World | December 09, 2023 11:05 IST

  India remained among the highest performers by maintaining a high ranking in Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and Energy Use categories. However, the CCPI 2024 report also noted that India's slightly positive trend in renewable energy share was advancing too slowly.

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  Passport Index 2023: What does India's score mean and why is it ranked low?

  Explainers | July 19, 2023 12:39 IST

  At the 80th position in the Henley Passport Index 2023 Q3, India provides visa-free and visa-on-arrival travel to 57 countries worldwide.

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  Global Competitiveness Index 2023: India slips to 40th spot I Check which country TOPPED the list

  Business | June 27, 2023 11:22 IST

  Denmark, Ireland and Switzerland have been named the top three among 64 economies measured for their global competitiveness in the 2023 IMD World Competitiveness Ranking, published by the World Competitiveness Center for the 35th consecutive year.

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  Why Indians are unhappy and what to do about it?

  India | March 20, 2022 14:55 IST

  The World Happiness Report released its first report in 2012 and from 2013 onwards (where it ranked 111 out of 130 countries), India has been falling in ranks with each passing year.

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  Dip in India's rank in Global Hunger Index 'shocking', methodology used is 'unscientific': Govt

  India | October 15, 2021 19:41 IST

    The Centre on Friday said it was shocking that India's rank was lowered on the Global Hunger Index and it termed the methodology used for rankings "unscientific".

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  India slips to 101st rank in Global Hunger Index 2021; behind Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal

  India | October 14, 2021 21:22 IST

  Eighteen countries, including China, Brazil and Kuwait, shared the top rank with GHI score of less than five, the website of the Global Hunger Index that tracks hunger and malnutrition said on Thursday.  

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  India slips six places to rank 86 on corruption index 2020

  India | January 29, 2021 10:24 IST

  The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and business people, uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.

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  India slips to 112th rank on WEF’s gender gap index; in bottom-5 on health, economic fronts

  Business | December 17, 2019 7:20 IST

  India has slipped four places to rank 112th globally in terms of gender gap amid widening disparity in terms of women's health and survival and economic participation -- the two areas where the country is now ranked in the bottom-five, an annual survey showed on Tuesday.

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  Singapore replaces US for top spot on global competitiveness index

  India | October 09, 2019 7:08 IST

  In the overall ranking, India is followed by some of its neighbours including Sri Lanka at 84th place, Bangladesh at 105th, Nepal at 108th and Pakistan at 110th place.

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  With 6 pc drop in joy, India ranks 9th on happiness index among 28 nations

  India | August 30, 2019 22:05 IST

  Indians consider good financial conditions and physical well-being among the top-most reasons to remain joyous, the survey revealed.

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  WEF ranks India 62 on Inclusive Development Index

  Business | January 22, 2018 14:42 IST

  India was ranked 60th among 79 developing economies last year, as against China's 15th and Pakistan's 52nd position.

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  India gains four ranks on global prosperity index, only BRICS nation to show improvement

  Business | December 13, 2017 10:28 IST

  Global prosperity 2.6% higher than in 2007. No region grew as fast as Asia-Pacific.

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  Ease of Doing Business: PM Modi’s vision of taking India to top 50 is doable, says Arun Jaitley

  Business | October 31, 2017 22:20 IST

  Jaitley also said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of taking India to top 50 in the ‘ease of doing business’ index was a doable task.

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  India jumps to 100th rank in Ease of Doing Business index, PM Modi hails 'historic jump'

  Business | November 01, 2017 2:52 IST

  Riding on government’s major economic reforms like demonetisation and Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, India jumped to rank 100th in the 2018 edition of the World Bank's 'Ease of Doing Business' index.

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  Boost to Modi govt as India jumps 30 places to 100th spot in World Bank's Ease of Doing Business

  Business | October 31, 2017 20:24 IST

  India made a double-digit jump in the World Bank's 2018 edition of Ease of Doing Business report, reacing the 100th spot from the previous 130th in 2016.

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  India ranks 55th on foreign money in Swiss banks

  India | June 17, 2012 21:43 IST

  New Delhi, Jun 17: Indians' money in Swiss banks may have risen for the first time in five years, but they account for a meagre 0.14 per cent of total foreign wealth deposited there —

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  Modi says, UPA pushing India to the brink

  June 12, 2012 21:48 IST

  Ahmedabad, Jun 12: Taking on the UPA government over Standard and Poor's threat to downgrade India's ranking, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today said the government is pushing the country to the brink.“Congress-led UPA's toxic