Under the startup bridge, India's Ministry for Commerce and Industry, Invest India and FICCI will set up an Investment & Trade Promotion office in Riyadh, while Saudi Arabia will open an investment facilitation office in India as well as offer physical and digital space to set up the startup bridge in Riyadh.

Arvind will report to CEO William Meaney and will be responsible for Iron Mountain's commercial and operational activities across the company's storage, digital solutions and asset lifecycle management business lines in India, it added.

India and Brazil have started talks to mutually resolve a sugar related trade dispute at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and as part of the solution the South American nation may share ethanol production technology with New Delhi, an official said.

Three years on, most of the largest US companies are sharing data on the race and gender makeup of their workforce — information that many of them previously only gave privately to the federal government. Despite the recent debate over the future of diversity efforts in American workplaces, experts expect the recent trend for openness to continue.