New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) Delhi Education and Urban Development Minister Ashish Sood, on Thursday, attended the 2nd ICC Aviation and Tourism Summit 2026, vowing to develop the national capital as a leading tourism city. “The time has come to develop Delhi not just as a transit hub, but as a leading tourism city,” Minister Sood said at the summit organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC).He added that the Delhi Budget 2026–27 reflects a vision of a developed national capital defined by…
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Guwahati, March 5 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday welcomed the discovery of India’s lowest-ever price for green hydrogen in a tender floated for supply to Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL), calling it a major step towards strengthening the country’s clean energy transition.Reacting to a post by former CEO of Niti Aayog, Amitabh Kant on X, Chief Minister Sarma said the milestone demonstrates the rapid progress India is making in scaling up green hydrogen production…
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) Rising geopolitical tensions linked to the Iran conflict could significantly increase India’s oil import bill and bring the rupee under pressure, former NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on Thursday.In a post on X, Amitabh Kant, who currently serves as a senior adviser to global financial institutions including Fairfax Financial Holdings and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, said that every $10 per barrel rise in global crude oil prices could add $13-14 billion to Ind…
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) With clear policy direction and strong industry participation, India can firmly establish itself as a leading global centre for electric mobility manufacturing and innovation, Minister of Heavy Industries and Steel, H.D. Kumaraswamy, said on Wednesday.Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the third ‘FICCI National Conference on Electric Vehicles’, the minister stressed that “whatever best way we can encourage the electric mobility adoption, we are going to go for tha…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Former NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Tuesday said that the true benefit of artificial intelligence (AI) will come only when it is multilingual, capable of understanding and communicating in many languages, including local and international ones.Speaking to the media on the sidelines of the launch of his book, titled ‘Smarter Than the Storm’, the former G20 Sherpa said that in the future, India aims to be at the forefront of emerging technologies.A key focus of the boo…
New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) Former NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Tuesday stressed that artificial intelligence (AI) must be designed and governed as public infrastructure, just like India’s digital public infrastructure, so that its benefits reach every section of society.Speaking at the “AI for the Next Billion” session organised by CEEW India during the India AI Impact Summit 2026 here, Kant said AI should be accessible, affordable, multilingual and accountable.He underlined that technolog…
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) M Nagaraju, Secretary, Department of Financial Services (DFS), has stressed upon the need to enhance the Credit-GDP ratio — making our financial institutions more agile and exploring new ways of financing at a larger scale in line with the goals of Viksit Bharat.Speaking at a ‘Chintan Shivir’ of the DFS in Coorg, Karnataka, he stated that the ideas generated during the session will pave the way for a shared vision and plan of action for the Department and its finan…
Bengaluru, Feb 14 (IANS) A two-day Chintan Shivir of the Department of Financial Services (DFS), Ministry of Finance, was held in Coorg, Karnataka, on February 13 and 14, 2026.The primary objective of the Chintan Shivir was to encourage fresh perspectives and generate creative ideas towards achieving the goal of Viksit Bharat by 2047, and to define the role of financial institutions in supporting this vision.Experts from public policy and practitioners from various fields of finance presented th…
New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) Amid the growing debate over gig workers, former NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant has said that politicising the gig economy will kill quick commerce, destroy jobs and push workers back into the informal sector.In a post on X, former G20 Sherpa Kant said that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha and his party are “not job creators but job killers”.“Gig jobs are set to grow from 7.7 million to 23.5 million by 2030 — among India’s largest job-creation engines…