Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Example of Modi govt’s diplomatic strength, Amit Shah on Tahawwur Rana's extradition

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Amit Shah said India will not cede ‘an inch’ of its territory

Amit Shah said India will not cede ‘an inch’ of its territory and emphasized the government’s commitment to the development and connectivity of the northeastern region while addressing the rcent remarks by Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser, Muhammad Yunus, who said India’s northeastern states as ‘landlocked’ with no access to the ocean.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Example of Modi govt’s diplomatic strength, Amit Shah on Tahawwur Rana extradition

The successful extradition of Tahawwur Rana showcased the Modi government’s strong global diplomacy and commitment to justice, said Home Minister Amit Shah.

Post of Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Amit Shah blames Mamata Banerjee's govt for hindering border fencing efforts with Bangladesh

250 km of the border cannot be fenced due to terrain and another 400 km remains unfenced because the West Bengal government has not provided land, making it difficult to curb infiltration in nearly 600 km, said Home Minister Amit Shah on Mamata Banerjee’s accusations over infiltration.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Who’s making aadhaar cards for infiltrators, asks Amit Shah

Home Minister Amit Shah asks West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee about alleged infiltration, on who was responsible for providing Aadhaar cards to those entering India illegally.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Amit Shah on potential impact of US tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on India’s economy

Home Minister Amit Shah emphasized that India’s economy is resilient and assured that external pressures would not cause panic among Indian citizens.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Indian languages must be preserved, says Amit Shah

Amit Shah said he has always spoken in favour of Indian languages and mother tongues, not just Hindi. Taking a swipe at Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, he remarked, “What can I do if someone’s mother’s language is not Hindi?”

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: One nation, one election is not unconstitutional. It is in the interest of the country, says Amit Shah

Amit Shah: Delimitation process hasn't started yet. Delimitation to be done via parliament.

Amit Shah:  We will win assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, Bihar

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Not one Muslim lost his citizenship due to CAA, says Amit Shah

Congress’ Rahul Gandhi and INDI Alliance members created an atmosphere where violence spread following the passage of the CAA, said Home Minister Amit Shah.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi did not choose to address the parliament on the Waqf issue despite being given ample time, says Amit Shah

Congress leaders Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi did not choose to address the parliament on the Waqf issue despite being given ample time to debate, said Home Minister Amit Shah

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Minority Muslim sects empowered by the Waqf Act, says Amit Shah

Amit Shah: Minority Muslim sects empowered by the Waqf Act.

Amit Shah: 1500-year-old temples were claimed by the Waqf Board.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Muslims not against Waqf Bill, says Amit Shah

The Old Waqf Act denied rights to Muslim women.

Congress brought changes to the Waqf Bill to appease vote bank in 2013, months before the 2014 elections, said Home Minister Amit Shah.

Those opposing the Waqf Act have vested interests. 21 lakh acres of land have been added to the Waqf property after 2013.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Youth must reject politics of appeasement, says Amit Shah

Youth must reject appeasement politics, says Amit Shah

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: India's Muslims did not want partition, says Amit Shah

Amit Shah: Appeasement is a poisonous ideology

Amit Shah: Those indulging in appeasement are against the nation

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: I have asked SIDBI to give more grant-based funding, let the founders enjoy the equity, says Piyush Goyal

Piyush Goyal: I was at the Startup Mahakumbh for all three days. We had estimated 1 lakh participants, but we had a footfall of 2.3L

Piyush Goyal: I have asked SIDBI to give more grant-based funding, let the founders enjoy the equity.

Piyush Goyal's message to startups: Go for it, Innovate in India, the country is behind you

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: I saw positive comments from very well renowned founders, welcoming the comments, says Piyush Goyal

Piyush Goyal: Those who were critical of the startup comments were part of an ecosystem who were part of an ecosystem who bash the Modi government on any issues. The Congress ecosystem does not want our startups to succeed.

Piyush Goyal: We need to encourage our scientists and our people, they have the potential. That's what I did.

Piyush Goyal: Our startups have done us proud.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: My comment on startups was not a truth bomb, it was an appeal, says Piyush Goyal

Piyush Goyal: We produce the highest number of STEM graduates

Piyush Goyal: We have grown from 400 startups to over 1.7 lakh startups

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: We are doing bilateral deal with many developed countries and every trade deal is a win-win, says Piyush Goyal

Piyush Goyal: For us, it is India first. Our goal to make India developed nation by 2047 is paramount in our mind when we engage with any country be it US, UK, New Zealand and others. We are doing bilateral deal with many developed countries and every trade deal is a win-win, there is a lot of give and take that happens. But can assure that the final outcome will be in India's interest

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: India's decision to buy Russian oil helped bring down crude prices, says Piyush Goyal

Piyush Goyal : India's decision to buy Russian oil helped bring down crude prices and helped the entire world and protected them from inflation

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: We are in constant engagement with US, says Piyush Goyal

India did not need to have tariffs on them because we were already doing a trade deal with them. But I think the US has not differentiated. But we are in constant engagement and I think we will working with them to take off these additional tariffs in the days to come

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Don't want to comment on formula used by US for reciprocal tariffs, says Piyush Goyal

Piyush Goyal: US move opens up opportunities for India and majority of sectoral stakeholders and exporters in India agree

Piyush Goyal: Wherever we see dumping or unfair trade practices, steps will be taken via anti-dumping tools

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: US move opens up opportunities for India, says Piyush Goyal

Piyush Goyal: US move opens up opportunities for India and the majority of sectoral stakeholders and exporters in India agree

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: US problem is not directed towards India. It is an issue of fair trade, says Piyush Goyal

Piyush Goyal: US problem is not directed towards India. It is an issue of fair trade

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: PM Modi has deftly managed the situation, says Piyush Goyal on Trump tariffs

Piyush Goyal: PM Modi has deftly managed the situation, he was the first one to bring back his old friendship with President Trump

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Kavach system to be ready soon, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

Accidents have been reduced and more efforts are being taken to reduce accidents, says Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Vande Bharat trains were meticulously designed, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

Vande Bharat trains were meticulously designed with passenger comfort and safety in mind, said Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Any country or company that wants to come and work in India has the full freedom, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

Vaishnaw: Any country or company that wants to come and work in India has the full freedom to do so. Companies generally prefer JVs more than they want to go up the learning curve at a faster pace.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Electronics manufacturing is giving employment to 25 lakh people, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

Vaishnaw on critics of PLI:  Electronics manufacturing is giving employment to 25 lakh people. Many of this employment is from rural areas

Vaishnaw: Every country that got into electronics manufacturing got into it in the similar fashion -- by starting manufacturing finished goods, then modules, then component stage.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: In the last 10 years, electronics manufacturing has grown 5 times, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

Ashwini Vaishnaw: In the last 10 years, electronics manufacturing has grown 5 times, and electronic exports have grown 6 times. We also released the components PLI scheme. The ecosystem is deepening very well.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: I should see what my boundary should be, says Vaishnaw on Allahbadia, Samay Raina controversy

Vaishnaw on Allahbadia/Samay Raina controversy: We are all staying in a society. We must, as users of technology, whether we are content creators or consumers of technology, we should understand our responsibility. I should see what my boundary should be.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: This is not first time that a social media platform has challenged government, says Ashwini Vaishnaw on Elon Musk's petition

Vaishnaw on Elon Musk's petition: This is not the first time that a social media platform has challenged the government. It is a very common thing. Ultimately, platforms have to follow Indian laws

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Government has played a big role in fostering startups in the country, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

The government has played a big role in fostering startups in the country. There are 1.5 lakh startups in the country as opposed to a few hundred a few years ago.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Some of the startups are working on very difficult technologies, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

Vaishnaw: In our economy there is space for everything. Some of the startups are working on very difficult technologies.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: We decided not to make either the Act or the Rules very prescriptive, says Ashwini Vaishnaw on DPDP Act and the Rules: 

Western governments were very prescriptive in their approach.

We wanted the process to be very consultative

We had 35,000 inputs from various stakeholders

We are using the same process for the rules. We should now be able to do the draft

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: We are not late in the AI race, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

Ashwini Vaishnaw: We are not late in the AI race. We are very much in the race,. We will be among the top few countries that will be able to harness its powers

Ashwini  Vaishnaw: Bias in AI can be very dangerous. It can play out very negatively.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: We are on track to release by end of year, says Ashwini Vaishnaw on Made-in-India chip

Ashwini Vaishnaw on Made in India chip: All the five unit construction are going on. We are on track to release by end of the year.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: 14,000 GPUs already empaneled. We are going for more, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

Ashwini Vaishnaw: India has the highest talent nation. If you look at how we are democratising access to GPUs, our model has been appreciated by everybody.

14,000 GPUs already empaneled. We are going for more

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Nitish Kumar to remain CM for the next five years, says Sanjay Jha 

Nitish Kumar will continue as Bihar’s Chief Minister for the next five years if the NDA-JD(U) alliance wins the upcoming elections, says Sanjay Kumar Jha, National Working President of Janata Dal (United).

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Rahul Gandhi has no idea of caste, says Sanjay Jha 

Sanjay Kumar Jha, National Working President of Janata Dal (United) and Rajya Sabha MP, said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi 'does not have clear idea' of caste or caste-based census

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: BJP-JD(U) partnership is a natural alliance, says Sanjay Jha

The alliance between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and JD(U) is a natural partnership, says Sanjay Kumar Jha, National Working President of Janata Dal (United) and Rajya Sabha MP.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Only four percent of space activities are being tracked, says Anirudh Sharma

Awais: So we have launched six satellites. 3 more will be launched in June. We plan on launching 18 more satellites till 2027 which will enable 24 hour coverage of the planet.

Anirudh Sharma: Only four percent of space activities are being tracked. We are looking to build largest catalogue of space objects. We are moving towards defence contracting, intelligence.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: In 5 years, we should be able to do one launch every month if not 2, says Srinath Ravichandran, CEO, Agnikul Cosmos

Awais: Most of our customers are global. In India most of our clients are in the government. More than 99 per cent, are from US and Europe

Ravichandran: In 5 years, we should be able to do one launch every month if not 2.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: In 2025, $5-$10 million dollars you can get from Indian investors, says Awais Ahmed, CEO of Pixxel Space

Ravichandran: It is almost easy to raise 5 million dollars for space in India. That is a big change, indicative of the ecosystem opening up 5 million to 100 million dollars is the journey.

Awais: In 2025, $5-$10 million dollars you can get from Indian investors. For capital beyond that, you are looking at international investors

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Space is a tool, and not just a destination very rich boys or girls, says Srinath Ravichandran, CEO, Agnikul Cosmos

Ravichandran: The biggest change from the sector standpoint, is that people have started seeing space as a platform and not just as a destination

Ravichandran: Space is a tool, and not just a destination very rich boys or girls

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: We want to create GPS for space, says Anirudh Sharma, CEO, Digantara

Awais Ahmed, CEO of Pixxel Space: When we were there at SpaceX headquarters, it was my Eureka moment — if a private company can do it in US, why cannot we do it in India.

Ahmed: Few months back, we launched India’s private satellite constellation. We launched 3 hyperspectral imagery satellites.

Anirudh Sharma, CEO, Digantara: We want to create GPS for space.

Anirudh Sharma: There are around 13,000 satellites in lower earth orbit. So we wanted to create a system where we can track where these objects are in space — by collecting data and creating a map.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Our rocket engines is a single piece of hardware, made by a 3D printer, says Srinath Ravichandran, CEO, Agnikul Cosmos

Srinath Ravichandran, CEO, Agnikul Cosmos: Our rocket engines is a single piece of hardware, made by a 3D printer. It contributed to the rocket being cheap. Our rocket flight was controlled and it lifted off from our private launchpad.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Astronauts must develop strategies to cope with isolation and confinement, says former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly

Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly emphasizes the importance of mental health, highlighting that astronauts must develop strategies to cope with isolation and confinement during extended periods in space. Kelly noted that taking ‘mental health days’ was crucial for maintaining overall well-being while aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: There is space for multiple voices to be heard today, says Vikram Sampath

Vikram Sampath: There is space for multiple voices to be heard today. There's a committee which is trying to correct the school textbooks

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Hinduism itself is not monolithic. It is about diversity, says Sanjeev Sanyal

We cannot achieve Rising Bharat without solving the wounds of the past, says Vikram Sampath.

Sanjeev Sanyal: Hinduism itself is not monolithic. It is about diversity. There are many views of history, I do not have any issues with different perspectives of history.

Sanjeev Sanyal: The problem is when there is no agreement on basic facts. But I understand that the Bengali view of history may not be the same as the Kannada view of history

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: History offers a place for the healing of communities, says Vikram Sampath

Vikram Sampath: History offers a place for the healing of communities.

Vikram Sampath: Need to have a truth and reconciliation committee in India like they had in South Africa.

Vikram Sampath: We should not whitewash history to suit our present needs with the caveat that we are not holding today's communities responsible for the barbarians of the past neither should they glorify them

Sanyal: Pakistan named their missiles after Ghazni and Ghori. That's what happens when you glorify barbarians of the past.

Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Live: Primary facts are that Aurangzeb did carry out large number of massacres of Hindus for religious bigotry, says Sanjeev Sanyal

Vikram Sampath: Itihaas means it thus happened, so we cannot sugarcoat history for vote banks.

Sanjeev Sanyal: The primary facts are that Aurangzeb did carry out a large number of massacres of Hindus for religious bigotry

Sanjeev Sanyal: Now what Aurangzeb did in the past does to the politics of today, that is for politicians to decide.

Sanjeev Sanyal: We won't have peace of any kind if we don't confront the past