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Self-reliance to be new mantra to sail through Covid crisis: Niti member

Saraswat said that the government is looking at flattening the recession curve

Vaccine will protect against new variant: Principal Scientific Advisor

Govt will initiate studies to see relationship between new strain and seriousness of the disease; there have been 17 changes in spike protein of the virus, of which eight are key

States told to estimate and strengthen cold chain for vaccine: Health secy

In all, 29,000 cold chain points, 240 walk-in coolers, 70 walk-in freezers, 45,000 ice-lined refrigerators, 41,000 deep freezers and 300 solar refrigerators are to be used

Niti proposes 'surveillance information platform' to boost public health

Niti Aayog also pitched for establishing mechanisms to streamline data sharing, capture, analysis and dissemination to include the use of situation-aware real-time signals from social media

Seven important Coronavirus vaccine updates that you need to know

Listen to the podcast to know about the current status of the Covid-19 vaccine in India and other parts of the world

PLI scheme to give $520-bn boost to manufacturing sector in 5 yrs: Amitabh Kant

The Centre's production-linked incentive scheme for key sectors has the potential to add $520 billion worth of manufacturing in the next five years, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said

No pressure on regulator to approve a vaccine, says NITI Aayog's V K Paul

Paul said it was in India's interest to ensure scientific rigour is maintained while granting the licence to a vaccine

Economy to reach pre-Covid-19-levels by end of FY2022: Niti Aayog

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has also revised its forecast of economic growth for the current fiscal year (2020-21) to (-)7.5 per cent as against its earlier forecast of (-)9.5 per cent

In praise of the bureaucrat

Does India's IAS officers' work go unappreciated?

Niti Aayog proposes self-regulatory body for online fantasy sports industry

Niti Aayog has pitched for setting up a single self-regulatory organisation for the online fantasy sports industry to be governed by the independent oversight board

States shouldn't charge more than 1% as mandi fee: NITI Aayog's Chand

Chand's comments come hours before the central government is slated to hold the fifth round of negotiations with farmers' unions to end the now weeklong blockade of Delhi.

Indian economy will expand in fourth qtr of current fiscal: Niti Aayog VC

India's economy recovered faster than expected in the third quarter as a pick-up in manufacturing helped GDP clock a lower contraction of 7.5 per cent.

Full-year GDP contraction may be less than 9%: Niti Aayog vice chairman

In a Q&A, Rajiv Kumar says GDP growth could be a small negative in Q3, positive in Q4, even as he calls for more measure to spur private investment

Speed of economic recovery a 'pleasant surprise': Niti Aayog's Rajiv Kumar

Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar on Friday termed the speed of India's economic recovery as a "pleasant surprise" and said manufacturing shows a positive growth that confirms a rebound. India's economy recovered faster than expected in the September quarter as a pick-up in manufacturing helped GDP clock a lower contraction of 7.5 per cent and held out hopes for further improvement on better consumer demand. "Speed of #economic recovery springs a pleasant surprise. #Manufacturing shows a positive growth which is the confirmation of a rebound of demand led recovery," Kumar said in a tweet. The gross domestic product (GDP) had contracted by a record 23.9 per cent in the first quarter of the 2020-21 fiscal (April 2020 to March 2021) as the coronavirus lockdown pummelled economic activity. With the gradual opening up from June, the economy has picked up, according to official data released on Friday. Manufacturing clocked a surprise 0.6 per cent growth in July-September after it ha

Govt's unprecedented reforms to usher in new era of growth: Amitabh Kant

Kant said as the world battles contraction in economic growth, India has initiated reforms in key sectors including agriculture, labour and mining.

India's health spend low, needs to be made priority: Niti Aayog's V K Paul

Says competing priorities have subdued it, Calls for raising spend to 8% of budget

India's overall spending on health sector 'low', says Niti Aayog member

Niti Aayog Member (Health) V K Paul said "expenditure of 1.5% of GDP on health is not acceptable"

Pfizer vaccine's -70 degree storage norm tough for most nations: V K Paul

Limited number of doses would not be enough to meet India's demand, adds Niti Aayog member

NITI Aayog making strong case for further investment in science: V K Paul

The coronavirus pandemic has shown how important science solutions are for life, livelihood and development', and the NITI Aayog is making a strong case for increasing investments in science, its member V K Paul said on Monday. He was delivering the first Prof M K Bhan Memorial Lecture in a webinar. Bhan was the secretary, Department of Biotechnology. Paul said the think tank wants science and technology (S&T) to be the government's priority "more than ever". He said the NITI Aayog has prepared a couple of policy briefs which are aimed at creating institutional pace, capacity and resource base. We are working with VijayRaghavan (Principal Scientific Advisor to the government) and my colleague (Vijay Kumar) Saraswat, member S&T... three of us, looking at pathways, above all creating institutional pace, capacity base and also resource base, the official noted. Paul was responding to a question on what was the NITI Aayog doing to promote research and encourage young ...

Govt to provide production-linked incentives to more sectors: Niti Aayog

The government will introduce the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for more sectors to boost domestic manufacturing, Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar said on Friday