PM Modi's important meeting with economists & experts before general budget
PM Modi will discuss the upcoming general budget with leading economists and experts from various fields on Friday. This virtual meeting has been organized by NITI Aayog. The meeting assumes significance as according to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), India's economy is projected to contract 7.5 per cent in the current fiscal ending March 31, 2021, while the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank estimates the contraction at 10.3 per cent and 9.6 per cent, respectively.
Jan 08, 2021, 10:34 AM IST
1 Minute, 1 News: Big news so far
In this section, you will find the top news stories of the day. Segment One Minute, One News is a part of Zee News important news bulletins in which we cover all the important news.
Dec 29, 2020, 07:40 AM IST
Government finally breaks silence on NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant's 'too much democracy in India' remark
The Centre on Wednesday tried to end the controversy with Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad saying that, "We are proud of our democracy."
Dec 10, 2020, 08:15 AM IST
Niti Aayog's VK Saraswat stresses upon need for India to focus on small satellites, related technologies
Niti Aayog Member Dr VK Saraswat has stressed upon the need for India to focus on small satellites and its related technologies, which would play a major role in the coming years. Small satellites (smallsats) is a generic term used to refer to satellites that weigh lesser than 500kg.
Sep 17, 2020, 22:15 PM IST
Gujarat tops Niti Aayog's Export Preparedness Index 2020 ranking, Maharashtra second
Gujarat has topped the Niti Aayog's Export Preparedness Index 2020 followed by Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu in the second and third place respectively, according to the government think tank's report released on Wednesday.
Aug 26, 2020, 15:19 PM IST
Tech Mahindra joins Niti Aayog to support women entrepreneurs
Tech Mahindra will provide mentorship, co-create solutions leveraging new age technologies and support in developing a go-to-market strategy.
Aug 24, 2020, 18:10 PM IST
Atal Innovation Mission, NASSCOM launch ATL AI Step Up Module for school students
The module is the next step in bringing Artificial Intelligence to classrooms and is a successor to the AI Base module launched in February this year, according to NITI Aayog.
Aug 15, 2020, 01:56 AM IST
Centre mulls bringing IITs, IIMs under online education system, seeks inputs from UGC, AICTE
The Narendra Modi government, which recently unveiled the New Education Policy, is going to implement big-ticket changes in the country’s education system and has sought suggestions from the University Grant Commission (UGC) and the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) in this regard.
Aug 12, 2020, 17:37 PM IST
COVID-19 management: AIIMS, NITI Aayog to start best practices sessions for doctors across India
The Clinical Grandrounds on COVID-19 will include the presentation of clinical cases by physicians directly involved in their management. Challenges faced in the management will be discussed by a panel of eminent experts from across the country and outside India.
Jul 21, 2020, 22:53 PM IST
Indian Railways gets good response on private player train project; 16 firms participate in first pre-bid meeting
The ministry has invited request for qualification (RFQ) from private players to run passenger trains on 109 important routes.
Jul 21, 2020, 22:00 PM IST
10 central government buildings faced sealing in 74-day COVID-19 lockdown
Ten central government buildings in the national capital have been sealed in the past 74 days as many employees and senior officials of different ministries tested coronavirus positive during the 67 days of lockdown and six days of `Unlock 1.0`.
Jun 06, 2020, 19:57 PM IST
NITI Aayog building sealed for 48 hours after staffer tests coronavirus COVID-19 positive, colleagues asked to quarantine
The NITI Aayog building in the national capital was sealed for 48 hours after a director-level officer tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday. A director-level officer working at NITI Bhawan has been tested positive for COVID-19. Today at 9 am, he got his report, and then he informed authorities," Alok Kumar, an adviser at NITI Aayog, said on Tuesday.
Apr 28, 2020, 13:13 PM IST
People of Jammu and Kashmir used Internet to watch dirty films: NITI Aayog member VK Saraswat
NITI Aayog member VK Saraswat on Saturday (January 19) said internet was used by people of Jammu and Kashmir to watch 'gandi filmein' (dirty films).
Jan 19, 2020, 12:08 PM IST
SDG India Index: Kerala, Himachal top-ranked states; Chandigarh, Puducherry up among union territories
Kerala retained its rank as the top state with a score of 70. Chandigarh too maintained its top spot among the UTs with a score of 70.
Dec 31, 2019, 20:04 PM IST
Niti Aayog to prepare roadmap on population control in meeting on Friday
Government think-tank Niti Aayog will hold a consultation with top policymakers, experts and specialists to brainstorm on ways and means of strengthening India’s population policy and family planning programme on Friday, and will come up with a roadmap to work on controlling population in the country.
Dec 19, 2019, 19:14 PM IST
After Ayushman Bharat, Modi government plans to launch healthcare scheme for middle class
Niti Ayog has prepared a report for the scheme terming it as 'Health system for new India'. According to the Niti Ayog, there is no such health care scheme for middle class in the country and this is the reason the government wants to come up with this new scheme.
Nov 19, 2019, 17:24 PM IST
Karnataka tops NITI Aayog's first-ever India Innovation Index 2019
Among major states, Karnataka topped NITI Aayog's first-ever India Innovation Index aimed at examining the innovation capabilities and performance of 29 states and seven union territories.
Oct 17, 2019, 19:53 PM IST
Niti Aayog releases School Education Quality Index; Kerala tops, UP worst performer
Kerala has secured the top spot among 20 large states, followed by, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat. Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh performed the worst in 2016-17.
Oct 01, 2019, 11:56 AM IST
Niti Aayog calls for extraordinary steps to tackle slowdown
Noting that the government has taken steps to address concerns of the stressed non-banking finance company (NBFC) sector, Kumar said the government does acknowledge NBFCs as a growth driver and has prevented many of them from collapsing.
Aug 23, 2019, 09:56 AM IST
NITI Aayog's Healthy States ranking: Mayawati slams Centre, UP government
Uttar Pradesh had fared the worst in the second edition of the report focuses on measuring and highlighting the overall performance and incremental improvement of the states over a two-year period (2016-17 and 2017-18).
Jun 27, 2019, 11:35 AM IST
