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Friday, August 15, 2025
TopicAmitabh Kant

Topic: Amitabh Kant

India should target 100% electric two- & three-wheelers sale in next 5 yrs: Amitabh Kant

In the first six months of FY 2022-23, India saw highest-ever EV sales where UP and Delhi are leading. Meanwhile, states with larger incentives see superior e-2W market growth.

Mumbai got tacky cut-and-paste makeover for G20 delegates. What it needs is proper facelift

Aamchi Mumbai is aching for a proper facelift — a few fillers, botoxed brows, chin uplift. Mumbai should never resemble an over-painted crone in shabby hand-me-downs.

Sustained economic growth key to India’s future, says Amitabh Kant

The NITI Aayog CEO also said economic growth is expected to rebound to 5.5% after (-)3.5% in 2020 which has been the worst since post-World War.

Wistron iPhone plant violence ‘unfortunate but not norm’, we’ll get more investment — Modi govt

In an interview to ThePrint, Mohapatra said Modi govt has been in constant talks with Karnataka and has asked it to ensure normalcy is restored at the earliest.

Digital revolution has transformed landscape of financial inclusion in India — Amitabh Kant

Speaking at Carnegie Global Summit 2020, Amitabh Kant said a country's digital-first mindset is 'foundation for a new mechanism for the deliverance of public goods'.

Indians debate too much democracy. But there’s not a whimper for ‘too little republic’

It’s not about democracy. Reform in India is hard because of too much social distrust.

Fallacy of too much democracy: No economic freedoms can thrive without political freedoms

We hold China in awe because it has a per capita GDP five times India’s. But the history of economic and democratic growth coincides almost everywhere else.

It’s Human Rights Day for all ‘vote banks’, & the mother of ‘too much democracy’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Too little democracy is why India’s reforms and progress are stymied

Amitabh Kant’s diagnosis is wrong: India doesn’t have too much of a democracy. It has too little of it for economic growth.

India business climate has continuously improved, Amitabh Kant says after WB halts ease index

A day after World Bank suspended its ease of doing business rankings, Kant says the govt will work tirelessly to make India one of the easiest countries to invest in.

On Camera

How Saba Azad became the accidental voice of Bengal’s language protests

Bengalis are hurt over a statement by the Delhi police calling Bangla a ‘Bangladeshi language’ and the lines Azad sang have unwittingly become protest music in Kolkata now.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

President awards 1st set of Sarvottam Yudh Seva medals since Kargil, 7 honoured for leading Op Sindoor

This year, the Indian Air Force received four of the seven awards, followed by the Indian Army with two medals, and the Indian Navy with one. 

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.