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Empower women for India's growth: Amitabh Kant
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Nov 27 (ANI): Speaking a day ahead of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) that begins here on Tuesday, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant called for providing greater impetus to women entrepreneurs, as this would be critical for India's growth.
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CJI Misra invokes Ambedkar on National Law Day address
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 26 (ANI): Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra on Sunday invoked Dr BR Ambedkar during his valedictory address at an event commemorating the National Law Day.
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Finance Secretary Adhia, others for fewer GST slabs
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 25 (ANI): Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia on Saturday said the Goods and Services Tax (GST) needs further simplification and suggested a reduction in the number of slabs if there is any scope to do so.
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CEA Subramanian hints at lesser slabs under GST
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 25 (ANI): Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian has hinted reduction in the number of tax slabs under the Goods and Services Tax (GST), with the merger of 12 percent and 18 percent tax slabs into one.
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Organs of state obligated to be models of good conduct, says President Kov
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov.25 (ANI): Cautioning the three organs of state -- the executive, the judiciary and the legislature to respect each other's boundaries and be obligated to be models of good governance, President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday said there is a relentless demand for transpare
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Road to Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2017 celebrates women entrepreneurs
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Nov 24 (ANI-NewsVoir): The Bhubaneswar Road to Entrepreneurship Summit was inaugurated by Prafulla Samal, Minister, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Women and Child Development, Government of Odisha.
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First time majority of GES attendees will be women: Ivanka Trump
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], November 22 (ANI): Ivanka Trump, United States President Donald Trump's daughter and advisor, has said that a majority of delegates attending the upcoming Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) are women.
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Microsoft rolls out campaign to increase awareness on cybersecurity
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 21 (ANI): Microsoft India on Tuesday rolled out a nationwide campaign to increase awareness on cybersecurity and cyber hygiene, ahead of the upcoming Global Conference of Cyber Space (GCCS2017).
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Mumbai road to 'Global Entrepreneurship Summit' celebrating and empowering
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Nov 20 (ANI-NewsVoir): The Mumbai road to 'Global Entrepreneurship Summit' (GES) was a resounding success and saw participation by eminent women leaders including designer and entrepreneur, Neeta Lulla; entrepreneur and actor, Shilpa Shetty Kundra; actor, film p
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NITI Aayog VC dubs Chidambaram's stance on Moody's rating as 'baseless'
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 20 (ANI): Responding to former finance minister P Chidambaram's comment on India's recent upgradation by global credit rating agency Moody, NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar brushed it off as "baseless", adding that such comments did not create a good impressio
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7.5-8 pct GDP growth expected this year: NITI Aayog VC
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 20 (ANI): NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar on Monday opined that the outlook for India's GDP is projected to be around 7.5 to 8 percent this year, with an estimate of 6.2 percent growth for this quarter.
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Our reform process will continue unabated, says Amitabh Kant
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 18 (ANI): NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Saturday said that the upgrade of India's sovereign rating has got India its recognition of the vast number of structural, institutional and procedural reforms taken so far.
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