By Kavita Mistry 
Rising Bharat Summit 2025 Highlights: At the Rising Bharat Summit 2025, PM Modi said global challenges didn’t deter India, which doubled its economy in a decade. He said India now shapes policy from possibilities and called the Waqf Bill key to social justice, slamming appeasement politics behind protests. Stressing urgency, he said delay is the enemy of development.
The News18 Rising Bharat Summit 2025 is where India’s defining conversations take centre stage. The summit celebrates the power of India’s youth as the driving force in the journey towards a Viksit Bharat by 2047. As the world acknowledges Bharat’s emerging power, this summit brings together the biggest Indian leaders, global policymakers, industry stalwarts, tech innovators, and start-up revolutionaries to address the most urgent issues defining our future.
At the summit, global voices admired India’s growth narrative as Union Minister Nitin Gadkari outlined an ambitious target of building 100 km of highways daily and said personal cars must give way to public transport. He also called out bad contractors, revealed paying his own traffic fines and proposed bundling helmets with new two-wheelers. Economist Jeffrey Sachs warned that the US is veering toward one-man rule under Trump and said Taiwan should learn from Ukraine’s misplaced trust in Washington.
Podcaster Raj Shamani said S Jaishankar inspired one of his best episodes and admitted he’d like to redo podcasts with Gadkari and Honey Singh. WEF’s Børge Brende said the US-China decoupling will hurt the global economy and highlighted Modi’s strong ties with Trump as key to future India-US deals. Chandrika Tandon reflected on reading 2,000 books and blending music with meditation to lead her business, calling her Grammy win a surprise. Sachin Pilot flagged underemployment and poverty as India’s core issues and stressed the need for a caste census to better allocate resources.