India fifth most powerful nation among top 50
By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 14 April 2011, 00:44 IST   |    12 Comments
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India fifth most powerful nation among top 50
NEW DELHI: Among the top fifty countries who are in the rat race to acquire the tag of the most powerful nation India has secured the fifth position after U.S., China, Japan and Russia. National Security Index (NSI), which conducted the survey said that India secured the fifth position on the basis of the annual review 2010 and its GDP. The top fifty countries were graded on the assessment of defence capability, economic strength, effective population, technological capability and energy security .India ranked third for population, fourth for defence, 33rd for technology and 34th for energy security. India ranked 7th for economic strength as well. On the likelihood of people raising eyebrows over India's extremely high rank, the NSI report said the strategic community in India will still take time to get used to India being such a powerful country. The NSI said some of the most powerful countries in the world were not necessarily energy self-reliant. The National Security governing body gave five criterias while ranking the countries maximum weightage was given to defense capabilities at 30%. Economic strength, technology and effective population had weightage of 20% each. A part of India's National Security Annual Review 2010, which will be officially released by foreign minister SM Krishna in the NSI 2010, placed India fifth in the hierarchy of top 50 nations identified on the basis of their GDP.

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