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#NDTVWorldSummit | "Cooperation, dialogue crucial": PM @narendramodi on shaping the new global order #NDTVWorldSummit2026 https://t.co/J1fXPZNU1x

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"India is today among the leading nations for digital innovation and startup ecosystems, remaining the world's fastest-growing major economy. Bharat is motivating the world toward collective development," says PM Modi. 

"Despite widespread discontent and fragmentation across the world, India continued to step forward and assist over 100 countries with vaccines and medicines during their times of need. We didn't do this to hold it over anyone's head but simply out of genuine goodwill and a spirit of global cooperation," says PM Modi

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#NDTVWorldSummit | "On every visit to India, I see the same thing- a relationship that has grown so wide that it has become a partnership that no longer needs a signing ceremony in order to grow": UAE Minister Abdulla Bin Touq Al Marri https://t.co/WaOmreB1AA

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#NDTVWorldSummit | "26/11 should serve as a reminder of the enormity of what is being done to us and the necessity for us to respond. And believe me, when you respond the world will take note of it, when you don't respond the world will play games": EAM @DrSJaishankar #NDTVWorldSummit2026 @rahulkanwal @AdityaRajKaul

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"Of course, I want good relations with Pakistan. I want good relations with all our neighbours. But will I overlook terrorism for good relations? Absolutely not," says Dr S Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs of India.

#NDTVWorldSummit | "Today, it's a world of chokepoints, a world of almost 'hostage ticket' that countries are using leverages and instruments they have with much less reticents and even responsibilities at times": EAM @DrSJaishankar #NDTVWorldSummit2026 @rahulkanwal @AdityaRajKaul

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"Countries can no longer take stability in trade, energy, and geopolitics for granted, as the world has become increasingly turbulent and unpredictable. Governments and businesses must factor this volatility into their planning and build resilient strategies around it. Much like portfolio management in volatile markets, we need to avoid overdependence on a single source and instead diversify across multiple options. Growing uncertainty around trade, energy supplies, sanctions, conflicts, and resource restrictions has prompted nations to fundamentally reassess their energy sourcing strategies," says Dr S Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs of India.

"Well, it's never done until it's done. As you've heard not just from Secretary Rubio, but from Minister Piyush Goyal and others, including myself, we are moving towards an agreement. However, the last few miles often pose significant challenges, and the teams are working through them now. As for the exact nature of those challenges, I'm afraid I can't disclose that-it is up to the negotiators to sort out," says Dr S Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs of India.

"Going out of Delhi to meet a foreign leader is summoning? I can give you a lot of examples. Mrs Gandhi went to Shimla. Let's have an adult conversation," says Dr S Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs of India.

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Addressing the major feat of winning the trust of 70 governments, Zubin Karkaria shares, “This is a very high-security business. That's why most of the governments that we have have been with us for over 20 years.” He believes that the company’s physical presence in 169 countries is a major benefit. “We have 10,000 audits a year, internal and external, through governments and our own,” he added.

“India would be the top two countries as a source market for students for universities around the world, I would say. It can become number one soon,” Zubin Karkaria says. Traditionally and even today, Indian students mostly consider going to go to the U.S., Canada, Australia, and the UK. But in the last two years, the number of students travelling to the European countries is growing substantially, almost by 60 to 70 per cent, year on year. Addressing the reason behind this rise, Zubin Karkaria explained that students are getting more and more conscious about the course that they are going for and the content of the course.

Zubin Karkaria believes that there is resilience in travel and that the world is not becoming difficult to navigate for the right people. He says, "We have gone through SARS, H1N1, COVID, and geopolitical tension, but we have always come out very resilient. So people will travel.” “When you look at the size, you know, if you look at the last WTTC report, the travel and tourism contribution is 12 trillion dollars. And one in nine jobs is in the travel and tourism industry, directly or indirectly,” he added.

"We operate only in Bombay, and one of the best things about Bombay is what the government is doing in terms of infrastructure spending. So Bombay is becoming a far better city to live in. The traffic has dissipated. The new micro-markets are coming up. The demand is coming from other people who are moving to Bombay, says Gautam Singhania, Chairman and Managing Director, Raymond Group

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"The real change that's going to come from the efforts that we are putting in to get our infrastructure right because of growth. We are moving from stability to growth. Most of the infrastructure projects were stalled for about 6 years since 2019. Now we have started all of them, and they are moving very fast. And the legal reforms that are related to investments and governance were another requirement for the country to be stable and consistent," says Chaturanga Abeysinghe, Deputy Minister of Industry and Entrepreneurship Development. 

"We came out of an economic crisis since 2022, and India greatly supported us with a lot of financial assistance and was there for us in all these difficult years. So I would like to give my gratitude and thanks to the people of India," says Chaturanga Abeysinghe, Deputy Minister of Industry and Entrepreneurship Development. 

"Jamavar itself sort of hails from Kashmir, and it has a design aspect to it. So I don't think we looked at it as an ethnic restaurant in any way," Samyukta Nair explained. She added that with time, the details of the restaurant have certainly changed. She added, "But today when you go in there and you see it, it's a very different world from 2006."

Vir Sanghvi explained that hundreds of Bangladeshis opened really bad restaurants, serving dishes they've made up in London, and it has impacted the reputation of Indian food in Britain. He added that these are dishes which no Indian would dream of eating.

At the NDTV World Summit 2026, Michelin Star chef Himanshu Saini spoke about a time, about 25 years ago, when people chose to become a chef if they couldn't do anything else. And that's how he became one too. "But now the scenario is changing around. The parents who are letting their kids follow their dreams," he added.

"What we are doing in support of Ukraine is also about defending our own security", said Jasper Wieck, Ambassador of Germany to India.

"India is no longer a spectator. It is ready to move from non-alignment to multi-alignment, from passive to active [role]. But, with a greater role comes greater responsibility. We very much welcome the higher profile," said Antonio Bartoli, Italian Ambassador to India, on India's growing diplomatic presence.

"It is not on us to judge the mix of security alliances of other nations," said Jasper Wieck, Ambassador of Germany to India, on India-Russia ties

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Software engineering is among the professions most affected by AI, said computer scientist Andrew Ng at the NDTV World Summit.

"If you keep learning new skills, jobs will be there": Computer scientist and DeepLearning.AI Founder Andrew Ng on AI and layoffs fear.

AI funding is about to dry up, said Nikhil Kamath, warning that the AI funding boom won't last.

"Raise money now, it's about to get harder," he said, predicting a correction in private market valuations for AI startups as investors start demanding real revenue over hype.

On AI and jobs, Nikhil Kamath said India's core advantage hasn't changed. "Labour arbitrage isn't dead, AI has just upgraded it. India's edge in the AI era is still cheap talent," he said, adding that the country should lean into its services strength while it builds product capabilities.

On his personal philosophy, Nikhil Kamath struck a reflective note."Nobody knows what they want from life," he said. "The people I find most appealing are the ones who are not certain."

The 40-year-old billionaire said he is no longer chasing scale or status. "I am optimising for freedom and peace of mind," he added.

On market speculation, the Zerodha co-founder defended the role of traders."Speculators provide a very valuable resource in a modern market. They should not be reprimanded," Nikhil Kamath said.

He, however, questioned privileged market access. "Should colocation exist? In my view, no. Every retail investor should get a level playing field," he said, referring to the practice where trading firms place servers close to exchange servers for faster execution.

Nikhil Kamath called for a shift in how traders are taxed. He said that instead of taxing every transaction through Securities Transaction Tax (STT), and stamp duties, the government should tax final income.

"In a direct message to India's wealthy, Nikhil Kamath said rising inequality is unsustainable.

"Fix inequality, before you're forced to," he said, adding that philanthropy and wider wealth distribution are no longer optional if social stability is to be maintained.

"The money going into AI and the money going out of AI: there is a big gap in between. I think maybe now $1 trillion a year is going into AI. The amount of money coming out of AI, through the enterprise way, is maybe between $100 billion and $200 billion. That gap of $700 billion, $800 billion a year has to be bridged from somewhere," Nikhil Kamath said.

"If one were to argue, in the last cycle, I don't know, the Middle East: a lot of oil money went into AI. A lot of foreign capital went into AI in America and took these bets. To find that new capital every year, and this is significant, right? This is like $1 trillion of fresh money; it's tough."

"I don't know if I've seen that happen on the ground yet. For next year, with American Treasury rates going up and the cost of money going to 5%, 6%, 7% (I don't know where it'll go; it's at 5% today), somebody has to bridge this gap up until that $5 trillion revenue story plays out. Even if it does or it doesn't, nobody knows. In the interim, I think it will become harder to get money than it has been this year or last year. If somebody is able to raise a lot of capital today and keep it, probably not a bad idea," he added.

"If I were 17 today, I'd probably build something around the technological changes happening in the West": Investor and Entrepreneur Nikhil Kamath on what he would do if he were starting out now.

"The aspiration is to build a new kind of social media. We have been experimenting with different applications...Like China has its own version of everything... I wouldn't be surprised if more of the world goes in that direction and, at some point in time, India might have its own social media. India might have its own version of everything American. We're trying to build something with that world in mind, but hopefully also something that can travel outside of India and not just be restricted to it," said Nikhil Kamath.

Investor and Entrepreneur Nikhil Kamath noted that while China claims not to be capitalist, it almost feels like the state is capitalist in itself. "Every municipality or the mayor of each province competes with another province like he were a capitalist organisation. There are many dichotomies in China. They say one thing, and they do another. You take land ownership, for example. People are not allowed to own land but have long leases. It's like owning land," the Zerodha founder noted.

"The one thing that maybe we can change and learn from China (I feel like we should learn from whoever has done something well) is to allow for different provinces or states. India has 28. Why not have each state compete with another like they were a capitalistic organization itself? Maybe the chief minister of a state could operate like the CEO of the state. It would be possible if the upside of the winnings of that capitalistic endeavour were also allowed to remain with the state. Maybe that's something we can question structurally and see if it makes sense for India, and maybe that's one thing we can learn from China," he added.

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"Caps on pricing for extremely expensive diseases are crucial. Insurance companies need to be convinced of this. We should schedule more meetings with them. The medical field is more than just a business; it's about lives, and we have emotional connections to this issue," said Rajiv Mehta.

"Prevention is the best form of medicine. A lot of issues can be sorted out. It's like a timely service of a car, which helps it function well. Similarly, regular check-ups are mandatory for better health," says Lilavati Trustee Rajiv Mehta.

Rajiv K. Mehta, Permanent Trustee for Life at Mumbai's Lilavati Hospital & Research Centre, is speaking at the NDTV World Summit 2026 in a session titled "Building Community Resilience through Health and Livelihood". The discussion focuses on the role healthcare institutions can play beyond hospital walls, from preventive healthcare and awareness to community outreach and improving access to medical services.

"India should target 40 per cent electrification over the next decade," said Vineet Mittal, Avaada Group founder.

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Djalal Khimdjee, CEO of Africa50's Principal Investment Fund, said the demographic trends show that by the end of the 21st century, half of the global population will be either Indian or African.

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"Last year, over 40 per cent of gold usage was financial. That means gold worth $6 trillion was traded," said Sachin Jain, Regional CEO, India, World Gold Council. He added, "Gold is a long-term asset."

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"When we treat things, people, and AIs with dignity, we learn to treat ourselves and others with dignity also... Because these AIs are imitating human personalities, if you deal with them as if they are human personalities, they work better. You've spoken at length about consciousness, and that's the only thing that distinguishes AI from a person," Swami Sarvapriyananda said at the NDTV World Summit. 

Swami Sarvapriyananda, the New York monk whom Anthropic flew to San Francisco to discuss consciousness, says the artificial intelligence could be the fourth "great humiliation to humanity".

He recalled Sigmund Freud's theory of three great "narcissistic wounds" or humiliations that science inflicted on human self-love and ego, which include when Nicolaus Copernicus showed that the Earth is not the centre of the universe, Charles Darwin showing that humans were not specially created apart from nature and Freud himself showing that the conscious ego is "not master in its own house". 

Sarvapriyananda said AI could be the fourth great humiliation of humanity. "We thought we were the creative intelligence. Now we see that AI can do what the greatest human mind can do better."

"We are at a critical moment. We have to ask ourselves what is that which distinguishes us, makes us unique? Where should we invest ourselves?" he said.

Swami Sarvapriyananda is the New York monk whom Anthropic flew to San Francisco to discuss consciousness. Now he's in New Delhi to discuss if 'Can Code Be Conscious? Rethinking the Mind in the Age of AI' at the NDTV World Summit 2026.

"You have to put in time into a relationship. So, this like having a relationship with your instrument. I didn't party, go to movies or shopping. I had no friends growing up. I just had school and music. Discipline is important for success," she said.

Mohini Dey, whose father was a bass player, said her music is the representation of "my foundation, which is Mumbai, India".

"I am fortunate to be born in India where we have so many different cultures... We have mosques and temples existing with each other. We don't judge, we respect each other," she said at the NDTV World Summit 2026. 

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Bassist Mohini Dey enthralled the audience and panellists at the NDTV World Summit 2026 with her band, performing some of her hit tracks, including The Dey Way.

"Please continue to support independent musicians," she said.

Bass player and composer Mohini Dey says she went shopping in Delhi after she came to India from New York. Born and brought up in Mumbai, the musician said she started working at the age of nine. Mohini Dey, now 29, said she migrated to the US around recently.

"I moved to the US because people told me I need to explore the world. I have played with a lot of artists, such as AR Rahman and Salim-Suleiman. Now, I've been touring with my world tour for the past three years," she said.

Mohini Dey, who was accompanied by her mother, opened the NDTV World Summit 2026 with a song she wrote as a child.

Mohini Dey is performing at the NDTV World Summit with her band. Dey was born and brought up in Mumbai. Dey received her first bass guitar when she was nine. She started performing at the age of 11. Her talent was noticed by her father's friend Ranjit Barot, who took her on his band's tours. She was also mentored by jazz exponent Louis Banks.

Watch her performance live here

Bassist Mohini Dey has taken to the NDTV World Summit stage.

When one of the biggest AI companies in the world, Anthropic, wanted to know how an AI should tell right from wrong, one of the people it turned to was a Hindu monk in New York, Swami Sarvapriyananda. At the company's headquarters in San Francisco, the monk was invited along with other religious thinkers from different faiths for discussions centred on questions of AI ethics and the training of its frontier models.

Swami Sarvapriyananda is now coming to New Delhi on October 22 to speak at the NDTV World Summit 2026 on 'Can Code Be Conscious? Rethinking the Mind in the Age of AI'.

The NDTV World Summit 2026 will begin at 10 am on Thursday, October 22, with a high-energy performance by Mohini Day, bassist and music composer. Watch the event live on YouTube and Live TV.

Kriti Sanon is all set to be part of the NDTV World Summit 2026, which will take place in New Delhi on October 22 and 23. The actor, who has built a successful career in Hindi cinema, has also ventured into entrepreneurship and film production over the past few years. She will address a session titled "The Making Of A Modern Star"

Kriti Sanon made her acting debut in the 2014 Telugu film 1: Nenokkadine, directed by Sukumar and starring Mahesh Babu in the lead role. The same year, she made her Bollywood debut with Heropanti, which also marked the acting debut of Tiger Shroff. 

After that, she appeared in many movies like Bareilly Ki Barfi, Luka Chuppi, Housefull 4, Bachchhan Paandey, Bhediya, Shehzada, Adipurush, Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya, Crew and Do Patti.

Sheikh Theyab bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Court for Development and Fallen Heroes' Affairs in the United Arab Emirates, is set to attend the NDTV World Summit 2026 in New Delhi.

Sheikh Theyab bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan holds the post of the Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Court for Development and Fallen Heroes' Affairs in the UAE.

He is also the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Erth Zayed Philanthropies, a network of 14 affiliated philanthropic organisations, including the Mohamed bin Zayed Foundation for Humanity, the Khalifa Foundation, and the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund.

He also serves as the head of the International Humanitarian and Philanthropic Council.

The day we've been waiting for is finally here. A world between orders. A stage for ideas that shape tomorrow.

From global leaders and policymakers to innovators, visionaries and changemakers, NDTV World Summit 2026 brings together some of the finest minds from around the world for conversations that matter. Follow live updates here.

🌍 The day we've been waiting for is finally here. A world between orders. A stage for ideas that shape tomorrow. From global leaders and policymakers to innovators, visionaries and changemakers, #NDTVWorldSummit2026 brings together some of the finest minds from around the world for conversations that matter. 📍 New Delhi 📅 October 22–23 📺 Watch only on NDTV @VishnuNDTV #NDTVWorldSummit2026 Presented By - @VFSGlobal Co-Presented By - Raymond Powered By- @GE_Aerospace Powered By - @aspect_global_ Co-Powered By - Pernod Ricard Co-Powered By - @avaadagroup Co-Powered By - @whitegold_money State Partner - @JansamparkMP State Partner - @UPGovt State Partner - @DIPR_UK, @ukcmo Healthcare Partner - @lilavatihrc Gold Investment Partner - @goldcouncil Energy Partner - @BondadaOnline International Banking Partner - @MashreqTweets Special Partner - @UshaIntl Associate Partner - @PhonePe Associate Partner - @OfficialGMDC Nutrition Partner - Nutricircle Bespoke Partner - Vikas Chain Jewellery India Limited Cultural Luxury Partner - @RamalayaGlobal Associate Partner - @CRIF_India

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Over two days, NDTV World Summit 2026 will bring together political authority, diplomatic experience, scientific inquiry, entrepreneurial ambition, and creative imagination into conversation, offering perspectives on a world undergoing profound change.

The Summit will also host international leaders, diplomats, and thinkers to discuss the economic and strategic shifts shaping a world between orders. 

Day 1 of the NDTV World Summit 2026 will examine geopolitics, global capital flows, artificial intelligence and India's expanding international role under the theme "A World Between Orders."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to deliver the keynote address, while External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will speak on India's sovereign choices. Other speakers include AI researcher Andrew Ng, entrepreneur Nikhil Kamath and UAE Economy and Tourism Minister Abdulla Bin Touq Al Marri.