After the then-VC Arvind Panagariya left the government think-tank to return to academia, Rajiv Kumar, a distinguished economist, took over as vice chairman of Niti Aayog in August 2017.
Nirmala Sitharaman, India's finance minister, remarked about India's purchase of oil and arms from Russia during the Ukraine conflict.
Amnesty India blasted British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday for inaugurating a JCB factory in Gujarat, only one day after bulldozers made by the company were used to demolish homes in Delhi's violent Jahangirpuri neighbourhood.