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Covid-19 crisis: Don't see a recession, recovery from Q2, says Rajiv Kumar

NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar tells Indivjal Dhasmana that since the approach followed to give the package is graded, one can assume that more would be announced if there is requirement

Covid-19 relief: FM announces Rs 1.7 trn plan for poor, migrant workers

Package announced includes both food security and cash transfer components

Covid-19: Centre to fast-track PM-KISAN disbursals for 85 mn farmers

Will push Rs 16,000 cr into rural hands by April first week

Health Ministry guidelines mandate online course for telemedicine practice

Doctors must complete course within 3 years of notification of norms; expert says guidelines seem fine, but will take months to prepare the course and won't be useful during Covid-19 pandemic

Coronavirus may impact investments into India from Japan: Keiichi Onozawa

In the long term, however, we reaffirmed the importance of robust global supply chain

Parliamentary panel pulls up planning ministry for not using funds fully

The Standing Committee on Finance, headed by Jayant Sinha, in a report noted that a scrutiny of the budget of the Ministry of Planning reveals under-utilisation of funds in important areas.

Top business headlines: ONGC m-cap plunges, crude oil dives, and more

Indian stocks on Monday recorded their worst single-day fall in more than four years, tracking global markets.

DCC may discuss telcos' AGR issue on Friday; COAI presses for relief

The industry has made a string of demands including a moratorium, staggered mode of payment, lower licence fee and setting up of a tariff floor.

NITI, Nasscom launch AI-based modules to 'empower young minds at schools'

The module contains activities, videos, and experiments that enable students to work through and learn the various concepts of AI.

Slowdown has bottomed out; economy must be opened up for growth: Panagariya

He noted that since about 2003, India has been growing at an average rate of about 7% and the first five years of the Modi government was characterised by 7.5% growth on an average

Flowers for planning

After the dismantling of the Planning Commission, the centre continued to do the same work for NITI Aayog

Agri sector faces issues in implementation of policy reforms: Niti Aayog

The states should be encouraged to play an active role in the overall growth of the agriculture sector, said NITI Aayog member

Not fiscal stimulus, other measures needed to boost economy: NITI Aayog VC

He also said there have already been plenty of measures taken by the government in the recent past

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