Several hot-button issues were discussed on the sidelines of the ceremony, which featured a panel discussion and speeches by union ministers Piyush Goyal and Ashwini Vaishnaw, and Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai.
Though words such as layoffs, correction and slowdown hovered in the air, the mood at the event was cautiously optimistic.
A high-powered panel, with some of the top names from India’s tech brigade, took stock of the market headwinds triggered by inflationary pressures and rising interest rates and looked for ways for new-age firms to balance their growth and profitability.
The preamble of the draft Personal Data Protection Act 2018 mentioned of "right to privacy" as "a fundamental right and it is necessary to protect personal data as an essential facet of informational privacy".
In the election to the Council Chair, India had received more than a two-thirds majority of first-preference votes while Canada and the United States of America ranked in the next two best places in the tally - so they were elected to the two additional government seats on the Steering Committee.
Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday said that India is looking at $6-7 trillion of exports of goods and services by 2047 and many countries want to enter into free trade agreements or an economic partnership with the country today.
Donald Trump said he would stick with his new platform Truth Social, the app developed by his Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) startup, which he said had better user engagement than Twitter and was doing "phenomenally well".
