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NEW DELHI: Ahead of the upcoming festival season and amid reopening of the economy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched an awareness campaign 'Jan Andolan' to promote appropriate Covid-19 behaviour like wearing of masks, hand hygiene and maintaining physical distance. "India's Covid-19 fight is people driven and gets great…

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing the annual "Invest India" conference said that the country has provided medicine to around 150 countries so far while adding that during the March-June period, agricultural exports rose by 23 per cent despite the lockdown. Also Read | India's GDP expected to contract by…

SynopsisShashank Bhide is currently a senior advisor at the New Delhi-based think tank National Council for Applied Economic Research, while Goyal is a professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research in Mumbai. Jayant R Varma is currently a professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.AgenciesThe Reserve Bank…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate RAISE 2020, a mega virtual summit on Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Monday (October 5). The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and NITI Aayog are organising the mega virtual summit on October 5-9, 2020, a PMO release said. "RAISE 2020 (Responsible AI for…

Comparing Narendra Modi government with the British regime, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi said both broke the backbones of farmers to continue in power. He claimed it is Modi’s intention to give control of land to the Ambanis and Adanis. He said the agriculture sector needs reforms. “But it should…

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday opened a Himalayan tunnel that will drastically reduce the time needed to rush troops to the country's remote Chinese border as tensions grow between the Asian neighbours. The tunnel traverses India's northern Himachal Pradesh state and lies on one of two main routes…

Attacking the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the country's defence interests were compromised for a long time as their governments kept "playing around with files" and delayed procurement of fighter jets, arms, ammunition and other strategic equipment. Addressing public meetings in Himachal Pradesh after inaugurating strategically-important Atal…

NEW DELHI: The IT ministry is looking to use artificial intelligence for addressing problems such as language barrier that are faced by Indians in communication and expects to get Cabinet approval in a month to launch programmes based on the next generation technology, senior government officials said on Saturday. Niti…

As the government outlines its National Digital Health Mission, a platform of online pharmacies has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to help notify rules governing its sector.The rules have been hanging fire for over two years since the last draft was issued in August 2018. And it’s been over a…

Asserting that the world also takes a leap ahead when India prospers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the clarion call for an 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat' includes a vision of global welfare and sought support of the Indian diaspora to realise this dream. He also underlined the need to amplify the rich…