Prime Minister Narendra Modi Praises News18's Efforts On Its Rising India Summit

Appreciating News18’s Rising India summit that concluded on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shared a tweet praising the effort by the network. PM Modi shared Vice President, Jagdeep Dhankhar’s tweet on the unveiling of the Coffee Table Book “Voice of India - Modi and His Transformative Mann ki Baat” at the News 18 Rising India summit.

“As this program completes a hundred episodes, I compliment efforts like the one by @CNNnews18 to acknowledge the people mentioned and the impact they have created," PM Modi said in his tweet.

The two-day Rising India summit was a power-packed event with the country’s biggest newsmakers in attendance.

Rising India has been conceptualised to create an engaging forum for leaders across sectors such as arts, sports, business, and academia, both from India and around the world for productive discussions on how to continue advancing India's progress. This year, the summit celebrated the remarkable achievements of ‘Ordinary People’ who have made an ‘Extraordinary Social Impact’. The mega-event acknowledged 20 such heroes, who have designed innovative solutions that are making a difference at the grassroots level and launched social entrepreneurship ventures with the potential to transform lives, initiate community-led programs that are bringing positive change in various ways, and demonstrated acts of compassion and courage that are contributing towards making India a better place.