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Auto sector needs to expand R&D to create indigenise technology: Niti Aayog

Centre's think-tank Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant believes that auto industry needs to ramp up R&D to create indigenise technology.

Railways defends 'zero fatality' claim after NITI Aayog questions data

Kant had said in a letter to the Railway Board Chairman that over 2,000 people lost their lives in the Mumbai suburban network every year and that too must be considered while reporting fatalities

What is the special railway safety fund that is now facing Niti Aayog heat?

The Aayog says there is an absence of advanced technologies to improve the safety, using the fund. This was despite spending Rs 55,000 crore so far

Niti Aayog working to champion cause of women entrepreneurship: Kant

"We have seen instances of women leaders carrying the communities they work with along with them, helping them grow and develop as well," he said

India's FDI regime most liberal, attracted $22 bn amid Covid: Amitabh Kant

Kant further said that almost 90% plus of the $22 billion foreign direct investment in India during the pandemic came through the automatic route

Strong online dispute resolution can bring cheaper justice delivery: Kant

Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said a robust online dispute resolution ecosystem has the potential to ensure justice delivery in a cheaper, quicker and credible manner

Innovations can help India's biotech economy hit $100 bn by 2025: Kant

"India's biotechnology economy can approach $100 billion in 2025 if the right policies are put in place, giving industry the required stimulation," he said

Clean energy can shore up Indian economy from current downturn: Niti Aayog

Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said India offers an exciting long-term market for both domestic and international investors in clean energy space

Covid-19 updates: WHO's warning, India's testing rate, UK's 2nd wave & more

Eperts have warned that Britain must start "intense preparations" for a second wave of coronavirus that has the potential to kill as many as 120,000 hospital patients in a worst case scenario

Name and shame states not doing enough testing for coronavirus, says Kant

He said states and districts should be ranked not in terms of absolute number of Covid-19 cases, but in terms of testing

Green shoots visible, India will bounce back: NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant

"I am hopeful that we will bounce back and bounce back with a vengeance," Kant said while speaking at 'FICCI FRAMES 2020'.

15th FC chairman N K Singh, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant endorse JioMeet

JioMeet has seen a huge surge in its ranking on Google Play, based on its downloads

All apps must adhere to India's data integrity, sovereignty: NITI Aayog CEO

Asserting that India has to be a data sovereign country, Kant also said apps must be transparent in terms of origin and final destination of data

A deluge of disputes awaits courts: NITI Aayog CEO for online resolution

There might be a deluge of disputes in courts, most notably regarding lending, credit, properties, commerce and retail, in the coming months, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said

BS READS: Are corporate-run prisons an answer to India's rotting jails?

By allowing corporate entities to manage separate jails for undertrials, state governments could free up to 70 per cent capacity in India's notoriously overcrowded prisons

Aaroyga Setu app to become open source, says govt after privacy controversy

'Unique thing to be done,' says Niti Aayog CEO about Aaroyga Setu

Need to create ecosystem to help pvt companies thrive: NITI Aayog CEO

Amitabh Kant tells Dilasha Seth in an interview that the measures announced recently by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addressed both supply and demand side problems

Aarogya Setu 'privacy-first by design', highly encrypted: NITI Aayog CEO

Concerns over the Aarogya Setu App were raised when a French 'ethical hacker' claimed to have access of the users' data and had highlighted security bugs within the app

Govt working on reforms in sunrise sectors to make India export hub: NITI

Amitabh Kant, NITI Aayog CEO, listed healthcare, education, mobility, genomics, AI, 5G network, fintech and manufacturing as high priority areas for rapid and radical structural reforms.

NITI Aayog sealed for 48 hrs after staffer tests positive for coronavirus

NITI VC Rajiv Kumar said that other staffers are working from remote locations