Launch events were held across all 112 Aspirational Districts and 500 Aspirational Blocks. This three-month campaign, spanning from July 4 to September

NITI Aayog has released a report outlining an action plan for quick and effective responses to public health crises and pandemics. The blueprint focuses

Mehboob Alam, CPI(ML) L leader in the Bihar Assembly, said, “I must say that Kumar skipped the meeting out of embarrassment over the refusal of the Centre to grant special category status to Bihar.”

The money which is distributed by the Centre belongs to the people of India. What did Maharashtra get... Our Chief Minister came back empty-handed: Shiv Sena UBT leader Sanjay Raut

Aarogya Setu, the government's mobile application developed to track COVID-19 patients, has emerged as a powerful tool to curb the spread of COVID-19 as it helped alert authorities about more than 650...

Building infrastructure to enable remote working will boost economy.

The Centre on Wednesday gave clear indications that the ongoing nationwide lockdown will be extended beyond May 3 but with "considerable relaxations" to people and services in "many districts". 

In an interactive online session organised by All India Management Association (AIMA) on post-COVID-19 scenario for Indian economy, he listed healthcare, education, mobility, genomics, AI, 5G network, fintech and manufacturing as high priority areas for rapid and radical structural reforms.

Kant has said as many as 69 million people in the country have opted for a self-assessment test in the app which takes the adoption rate of the app to 71 per cent.

1. 15 districts account for 64% of Covid-19 cases, says Niti Aayog CEO  Times of India
2. Aarogya Setu app rule for private offices, not for domestic helps: Official  Hindustan Times
3. Aarogya Setu app promoting a few e-pharmacies, says SJM  The Hindu
4. Aarogya Setu app alerted govt to 300 'emerging hotspots' which could have been missed out: Niti Aayog CEO  Times of India
5. Aarogya team shares 600 potential local hotspots  The Indian Express
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Fifteen districts are contributing 64% of the Covid-19 cases in the country and out of these five account for 50% of the cases, according to Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant. These five districts include Delhi, Pune, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Chennai. All of Delhi and all of Mumbai have been considered as a district each for the purpose of the study.

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Prior to the move, all FDI proposals from only Pakistan and Bangladesh were required to be cleared by the government.

The death toll due to COVID-19 in the country rose to 1,783 while the number of cases climbed to 52,952 on Thursday, registering an increase of 89 deaths and 3,561 cases in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said.

Agriculture minister Tomar says Rs 18-k cr disbursed under PM-Kisan since lockdown began, to raise share of agriculture-related works under MNREGA to 77% in FY21 from 66% in FY20.

Since its launch on April 2 this year, over 96 million people have registered with the Aarogya Setu health care application, which has become the fastest mobile app to reach 50 million users globally . The Aarogya Setu has helped the government with its twin objective -- "whom to test" and "where to test more" in its battle against COVID-19.

Paul, who also heads the medical emergency management plan on Covid, tells ET in an interview that the third phase of the lockdown should be seen as the country’s strategy of rational, gradual and cautious step-wise de-escalation of the lockdown.

The new report reveals that almost all adolescents in India have unhealthy or poor diets. This is the main cause for all forms of malnutrition.

"Due to ongoing Covid-19 pandemic NITI Internship Programme is being suspended for three months from May- July, 2020," it said on its website. "New dates of opening NITI Internship Programme will be intimated later after reviewing the situation," the Aayog added.