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  IndiGo appoints Amitabh Kant as non-executive director, says he will be invaluable for airline

  Business | July 03, 2025 21:24 IST

  IndiGo board chairman Vikram Singh Mehta welcomed the appointment, saying Amitabh Kant brings deep administrative and strategic experience and his global exposure and leadership will be invaluable to IndiGo, especially as we look to expand our international footprint.

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  Amitabh Kant resigns as India's G20 Sherpa to 'embrace new opportunities'

  Business | June 16, 2025 11:23 IST

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accepted Kant's resignation. Kant is a retired 1980-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Kerala cadre.

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  India all set to overtake Japan as fourth largest economy by 2025, predicts Amitabh Kant

  Business | May 12, 2024 14:40 IST

  India's GDP grew at a massive 8.4 per cent during the October-December quarter of the financial year 2023-24, and the country continued to remain the fastest-growing major economy and is poised to maintain its growth trajectory going ahead.

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  Former NITI Aayog employee and PhD student killed while cycling with her husband in London

  World | March 25, 2024 14:50 IST

  According to Amitabh Kant, G20 Sherpa and former NITI Aayog CEO, 33-year-old Cheistha Kochhar, who had earlier worked with the public policy think-thank NITI Aayog, was pursuing her PhD at the London School of Economics.

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  India needs to grow at 9-10 per cent to become USD 35 trillion economy by 2047: Amitabh Kant

  Business | February 19, 2024 7:18 IST

  Kant said India's potential to supply 31 per cent of the world's skilled manpower positions it as a global powerhouse in the workforce arena.

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  G20 Virtual Summit: Almost all leaders will participate in the crucial meeting, says Sherpa Amitabh

  World | November 21, 2023 17:48 IST

  G20 Summit 2023: According to G20 Sherpa, Amitabh Kant, the upcoming meeting will be focused on climate change and the adoption of green energy which would help in the crucial United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP28.

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  'Over 200 hours of negotiations, held 300 bilaterals to bring consensus on Ukraine': G20 Sherpa

  World | September 10, 2023 11:06 IST

  According to Kant, it was the most complex part of the entire summit where the leaders initially did not agree on the Russia-Ukraine war.

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  G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant hints at including African Union into 19-country bloc during Delhi Summit

  World | September 08, 2023 20:02 IST

  While addressing a pre-summit press briefing on Friday, G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant asserted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is a "great believer" in Global South had written about the inclusion of the African Union.

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  G20 meet in J&K: 'No better place than Kashmir to shoot movies,' Govt extends support to filmmakers

  India | May 22, 2023 20:11 IST

  We'll (Centre) go out of our way in providing assistance in shooting movies and shoot locations and help to shift film destination from any other part to Kashmir, G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant said.

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  G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant speaks on India's presidency, says country 'rolling out its own agenda'

  World | December 04, 2022 20:50 IST

  Amitabh Kant stated that India was also rolling out its own agenda as well as maintaining the G20 presidency at a time when there is a surge in inflation and a slowdown of global growth.

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  Former NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant to be new Sherpa of G-20

  Business | July 07, 2022 17:29 IST

  India assumes the G-20 presidency later this year.

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  India cannot become next factory of world by copying China: Amitabh Kant

  India | August 12, 2021 17:48 IST

  Addressing a virtual event organized by industry body CII, Kant said India's private sector has to set ambitious targets for itself and focus on green hydrogen, high-end batteries, and advanced solar panels to become competitive.  

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  Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant gets another extension, till June 2022

  Business | June 29, 2021 20:51 IST

  ​Niti Aayog Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Amitabh Kant was on Tuesday given one-year extension till June 2022, according to a Personnel Ministry order. This is a third extension for the 65-year-old civil servant in the post.

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  Budget 2021-22: 'Superb, practical, rational and progressive," says NITI Aayog CEO

  News | February 01, 2021 18:01 IST

  NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant called the Budget 2021-22 a "very practical, rational and progressive." Amitabh Kant said that the budget not only accelerate the country in pre-COVID period recovery stage but also provide a direction for 3-4 yrs.

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  Shivraj Chouhan virtually launches 'Roadmap to Aatmanirbhar Madhya Pradesh'

  News | November 12, 2020 17:20 IST

  Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan virtually launched 'Roadmap to Aatmanirbhar Madhya Pradesh, 2023'.

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  Indian Railways seeks private investment of Rs 30,000 crores: Amitabh Kant

  News | September 17, 2020 20:49 IST

  Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on September 17 reacted on Public-Private Partnership in passenger train operations. He said that the private sector investment that Railways is looking at is about Rs 30,000 crores.

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  Indian Railways modernisation will bring paradigm shift, win-win situation for everyone: Niti Aayog

  Business | September 17, 2020 17:48 IST

  National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) CEO Amitabh Kant on government objective to modernise and improve passengers expeirence on Indian Railways said the modernisation of Railways is a win-win situation for everyone.

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  Govt makes Aarogya Setu an open-source app for Android users

  India | May 26, 2020 19:46 IST

  India's coronavirus contact tracing app Aarogya Setu is now open source for Android users, in a major development that will allay privacy concerns around the government-launched product

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  India's story has just begun: Amitabh Kant

  World | December 14, 2019 7:32 IST

  "There is a great positivity about India," NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant told PTI in an interview  as he wound up his three-city US tour for a series of interaction with academicians, innovators, startups, corporate leaders and government officials in Boston, New York and Washington DC.

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  Cost of electric vehicles to be at par with combustion engine cars in 3-4 yrs: Amitabh Kant

  India | August 28, 2019 13:46 IST

  Observing that India has 28 cars for every 1,000 people, much lower as compared to the US or Europe which have 980 and 850 cars for 1,000 people respectively, Kant said this means as India transits towards urbanisation the future will all be electric, shared and connected. "We will transit towards there as the cost of battery falls from 276 dollars per kilowatt hour (kWh) to 76 dollars per kilowatt/hour. The cost of electric vehicles will almost become at par with combustion (engine) cars in the next 3-4 years," the NITI Aayog CEO said while addressing a CII event here.