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Artificial intelligence can improve health sector, says Arvind Panagariya

Panagariya said India's health sector is still very much evolving and very informal

India should embrace 5G soon, develop tech indigenously: NITI Aayog CEO

"A debate is underway on 5G technology. I am of the view that there is a need to develop some segments of it with Indian technology for taking the nation forward," he added

Karnataka ranked as India's most innovative state, says Niti Aayog

The index is based on seven pillars, which include five enablers and two performance indicators

India lifted 300 mn people out of poverty between 2004 and 2018: Niti Aayog

Nowhere else in the world has this happened in recent times, he said at the inauguration of the MicronTechnology Incs Global Development Centre

India should integrate AI with education to become world leader: Sikka

Last month, at the request of PM Modi, Sikka gave a presentation before the NITI Aayog how to expand the reach of AI to the Indian society in a very big way

Corporate tax giveaway to have little impact on fiscal goals: Niti Aayog

Many analysts have predicted fiscal deficit overshooting by at least 70 bps to 4.1 per cent given the quantum of the giveaways

Finance ministry clears NITI Aayog's artificial intelligence proposal

NITI Aayog had been asking for Rs 7,500 crore for three years to set up an AI framework

Improving ease of doing business: Think tank moots sector-based model

While the World Bank's ranking rests on ease of doing business in Mumbai and Delhi, the DPIIT's is based on reforms done in states

India to review Asean free-trade agreement amid rising imports fear

The decision was taken during a meeting between Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Commerce Minister Jurin Laksanawisit, representing Asean, in Bangkok

Power engineers demand audit of privatised assets, impact on banks

Public sector technocrats oppose alleged privatisation of power supply channels

With it but not quite: NITI Aayog's changing equations with the Modi govt

The Centre's think-tank seems to be facing a lot of flak from senior govt ministers in the last few days

Aluminium makers working with Niti Aayog, BIS to check scrap misuse

Imports of aluminium scrap into India are growing unabated, helped by a benign duty of 2.5 per cent and fuelled by US-China trade tensions

NITI Aayog at the forefront of Centre's move to promote electric vehicles

Nitin Gadkari said it was the mandate of his ministry and not that of NITI Aayog to take a call on vehicle technology

Gujarat retains top position in water management, says NITI Aayog

Releasing the second edition of the Composite Water Management Index, the government think tank said the annual per capita availability of water is expected to reduce to 1,140 cubic metres by 2050

Extraordinary steps needed to deal with financial sector stress : NITI V-C

Explaining the reason for the stress in the financial sector, Kumar said the slowdown started with indiscriminate lending during 2009-14, leading to rise in NPAs post 2014

BJP leaders to meet officials, economists to talk growth, demand slowdown

Former chief economic advisor Arvind Virmani and State Bank of India's group chief economic advisor Soumya Kanti Ghosh are likely to attend the event

No deadline for transition to electric vehicles, says govt official

The Niti Aayog has suggested transition to full electric vehicles for three-wheelers by 2023

15th Finance Commission may cut number of centrally-sponsored schemes

The Centre, not the Finance Commission, is deciding the evaluation of the schemes and the sub-schemes to be pruned

HRD ministry to launch programme to train over 4.2 mn teachers across India

Ray said around 19,000 teacher-training institutes across the country were mapped and put on Google Earth

Govt adopts a new approach to bring reforms in public sector banks

FinMin has asked govt-owned banks to capture 42 questions on credit, non-performing assets, Mudra loans, agriculture