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NITI Aayog member says "too early to calculate demonetisation effects
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 19 (ANI): In what may irk the Congress Party questioning the implementation of demonetisation, NITI Aayog member Bibek Debroy on Monday said that former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh is mistaken in saying that this move would hurt the nation's GDP and growth.
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National Highways road length to be increased from 96, K km to 200 K km: G
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Dec. 17 (ANI): Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said that the national highways road length will be increased from 96,000 km to 200,000 km.
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Multimodal transport and port-led industrialization, a game changer: Nitin
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 16 (ANI): The government is planning to develop an integrated system of roads, railways, airports and water ports and is also working on port-led industrialization, said Nitin Jairam Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping, and described the d
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Fast track stickers, other measures to insure convenience at toll booths:
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 16 (ANI): Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said on Friday that all arrangements have been made to avoid any problems at tolls, including introduction of fast track stickers.
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Congress slams NITI Aayog's scheme to incentivise digital payments
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 11 (ANI): Slamming the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog's decision to reward Rs.1 crore for promoting e-payment, Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit on Sunday questioned the government whether cashless exchange was more important to it than po
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NPCI proposes scheme to incentivise digital payments
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 10 (ANI): With an aim to ensure that electronic payments are adopted by all sections of the society, the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog has requested National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI), a not for profit company, to conceptualise and
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Bureaucrats, politicos involved in AgustaWestland must also come under CBI
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 10(ANI): Defence expert Nitin Gokhale on Saturday said that former air chief S.P. Tyagi is not the last person to be arrested in the AgustaWestland case, adding that other high profile officials, bureaucrats and politicians should come also be brought under the CBI sc
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Demonetisation: Angry locals perform 'antim sanskar' of cashless
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Dec.10 (ANI): On the one hand Janata Dal United leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is openly supporting the demonetisation move initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but on the other hand, several JD-U supporters and local Bengalurians staged pro
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All of Bihar is mourning Jayalalithaa's demise: Nitish Kumar
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar)[India], Dec. 6 (ANI): Expressing his grief over the demise of late AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalithaa, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday described it is as a huge loss not only for Tamil Nadu politics, but also for the nation.
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NITI Aayog to provide Rs 5 lakh per district
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec.5 (ANI): To encourage each district in the country to take the digitization route without fear, the NITI Aayog will be immediately transferring Rs.5 lakh to every one of them as seed money to kick start this drive.
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Gadkari's office rubbishes reports of 50 chartered flights to ferry V
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 4 (ANI): The office of Union Road, Transport, Highways and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari on Sunday dubbed reports stating that 50 chartered flights will ferry VIPs for his daughter's wedding as 'mischievous and incorrect'.
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Sushil Modi, Rabri Devi spar over Nitish cosying up with BJP
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], Nov.29 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) member Sushil Modi and Rashtriya Janata Dal member Rabri Devi on Tuesday engaged in a war of words after the latter "jokingly" remarked that the former should just take away Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar a
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