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Thursday, November 6, 2025
TopicNiti Aayog

Topic: Niti Aayog

The suspicion over Aadhaar shows why IIT engineers don’t have solutions to India’s ills

As more business is transacted on the basis of our online behaviour and ‘intuitive functionality’, a liberal arts degree is the most sought-after skill in the American tech industry today.

Modi govt wants NITI Aayog to play peacemaker in GM row

The idea is to bring supporters and opponents of GM technology into the same room and sort out differences.

Simultaneous polls not possible without the requisite legal framework, says CEC Rawat

The CEC’s remark comes at a time when Modi government is pushing for the idea of ‘one nation, one election’.

Govt pushes NITI Aayog for land leasing law but RSS affiliates poke holes in draft

The Modi government is pushing for a Land Leasing Act to make land tenancy easier before the upcoming elections.

Ensuring higher MSP to farmers in an election year. What are the government’s options?

Fixing MSP only on the basis of cost of production, without any reference to demand, global market etc. can cause distortions that may take years to correct.

Modi govt tells Election Commission to study feasibility of plan for simultaneous polls

Move comes ahead of 17 April Law Commission meeting that will discuss simultaneous election.

PM Modi gets a report that backs his pet plan of ‘one nation, one election’

Report is based on a two-day seminar held in January; shows how simultaneous polls can reduce the massive expenditure on elections, and the burden on govt staff.

NITI Aayog rankings: Haryana’s Mewat is India’s most backward district

Of the 101 districts that have signed up for the Centre’s ‘Transformation of Aspirational Districts’ programme so far, Andhra’s Vizianagaram performs best.

After chief’s transfer, govt wants to turn drug price regulator into ‘market research agency’

The NPPA was behind capping the prices of knee implants, stents and medicines.

Former CEC N. Gopalaswami to head committee to choose India’s 20 ‘Institutes of Eminence’

Also on board- Harvard’s Prof Tarun Khanna, Houston Univ’s Renu Khator and former IIM Lucknow Director Pritam Singh.

On Camera

Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘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.