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TopicAatmanirbhar Bharat

Topic: Aatmanirbhar Bharat

How Neel Patel ‘conned’ Indians out of crores, with dreams of Atmanirbhar Bharat & a cheap iPhone

Swadeshi apps and influential Twitter friends drew many to Patel. As his father is arrested as part of probe into alleged multi-crore web of scams, Patel says he didn't do anything illegal.

Not swadeshi, samarthya is the answer to India’s economic nationalism

Swadeshi has found a new wind in Indian politics as a form of popular resistance to China. But raising barriers to Chinese imports only affects those lower down the income pyramid.

How Modi is repeating Nehru’s mistake by evoking self-sufficiency

The more Modi tries to relegate Nehru to the back pages of history, the more the first prime minister leaps out. But Modi needs to learn that self-sufficiency won’t put food on the table.

US exporters continue to encounter significant trade barriers in India, claims report

According to 2021 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers, the US goods trade deficit with India was $23.8 billion last year, a 1.7% increase over 2019.

At core of ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ is to create wealth, values for humanity, says PM Modi

Speaking at the launch of e-book version of Swami Chidbhavananda's 'Bhagavad’ Gita, the PM said 1.3 billion people of India have decided they are going to make India 'Atmanirbhar'.

Govt aims to take rural industries’ turnover to Rs 5 lakh crore, says Rajnath Singh

Hailing the 'Hunar Haat' initiative of the Minority Affairs Ministry, Rajnath said it would go a long way in achieving the objective of 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat'.

Why Modi govt is liberalising mapping policies & what free access to geospatial data means

Ending a colonial-era legacy, Modi govt will now allow private companies to produce, acquire & disseminate geospatial data and conduct mapping without prior approval.

In boost to Atmanirbhar Bharat, security forces to get India-made Israeli assault rifles

Special forces and others using these assault rifles used to import them from the Israel Weapons Industry, a former Israeli government firm that was privatised in 2005.

India will be atmanirbhar when state-of-the-art defence systems are developed — DRDO chief

Speaking at IIT-Bhubaneswar, Dr G Satheesh Reddy urged students to learn next-generation tech related to artificial intelligence and cyber security, to help India grow.

‘Nothing in Union Budget for common man’ — Opposition parties attack govt in Rajya Sabha

Congress, BSP, AAP and Left leaders questioned the model of 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' and asked if it meant surrendering everything to the capitalists.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.