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Five years after being set up, NITI Aayog remains a work in progress

As it enters its second-term, the body will need to deliver at many more levels than it so far has, more so at a time when the country faces one of its worst slowdown in decades

Budget wishlist: Steel industry expects relief from taxes, logistic costs

Hopes are running high in the aluminium industry that the finance minister will finally end the inverted duty regime

PM Modi meets economists, industry experts ahead of Budget at Niti Aayog

The high-profile meeting was attended by Home Minister Amit Shah, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, besides Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar, CEO Amitabh Kant

Here's how pre-budget meetings can stop being dialogue of the deaf

If implemented, these three suggestions can help change them from dialogue of the deaf to a semi-deaf one

Opening up mining

Removal of end-use restrictions is a major step forward

Top events of the day: PM to meet Niti Aayog economists, envoys J&K visit

From Omaxe Group's Hyderabad property case NCLT hearing to Global investors meet in Kochi, here are the top news events of the day to watch out for

Lenders can now transfer stuck BOT projects to other developers

This move will draw a fine line of functional balance of public-private partnership for development of highway infrastructure in the country

Govt looking for more revenue from highways, NITI suggests measures

NITI Aayog has been working with the NHAI to ensure an improvement in financial sustainability and project viability, said an official

NITI Aayog pitches for bringing in private players for train operations

The paper, prepared for discussions with stakeholders, has split the 100 routes into 10-12 clusters

Top headlines: Govt okays sale of NINL, NITI backs private trains, and more

From govt's nod for sale of equity shares of 6 PSUs in NINL to telcos seeking open court hearing in SC on AGR review pleas, read all the top headlines here

NITI Aayog moots Rs 22,500 cr plan for 150 private trains on 100 routes

The discussion paper titled 'Private Participation: Passenger Trains' has identified 100 routes, including Mumbai Central-New Delhi, New Delhi- Patna, Allahabad-Pune and Dadar-Vadodara

Quantifying the social burden on railway finances

Put simply, the Railways spent Rs 98.44 for every Rs 100 it earned. This was the highest level in 10 years.

Kerala top achiever in meeting sustainable development goals: Niti Aayog

Bihar, Jharkhand and Arunachal Pradesh were the worst-performing states in this year's index for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Kerala tops Niti's SDG Index, Bihar, Jharkhand, Arunachal worst performers

According to 'SDG India Index 2019', Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim have shown maximum improvement, but states like Gujarat have not shown any progress vis-a-vis 2018 rankings

Best of BS Opinion: Does IBC work for financial companies?

From the manner in which dormant sub-nationalism is coming to the surface to all that could possibly go wrong if the resolution of financial service providers happens under the IBC, here's a selection

NITI member backs 2 GST slabs, says rates should not be revised frequently

The GST, which replaced almost all the indirect taxes, came into force from July 1, 2017, and the rates on goods and services have been revised several times since then

NITI Aayog to draft roadmap for population stabilisation, family planning

India, with a current population size of 1.37 billion, has the second largest population in the world

NITI Aayog plans to bring all medical devices under one regulatory regime

The NITI Aayog has proposed to do away with the need to have manufacturing licences to register a medical device

Relax fiscal deficit limit from 3% to 4% of GDP, states ask Sitharaman

State FMs had met Sitharaman for a pre-Union Budget interaction

NITI Aayog to discuss Medical Devices Bill with stakeholders tomorrow

The government feels that the Ayushman Bharat has triggered an 'unprecedented demand' for medical devices