Finance Minister Arun Jaitley

New Delhi, April 25: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed hope that the parliament session beginning on Monday will transact its business smoothly. "In the last session also we transacted important business. Most of them…

New York, April 19: With Indian agriculture remaining a worrisome sector and services doing rather well, it is manufacturing that can create the quantum of jobs needed to accommodate urban migration and help the country grow faster,…

New Delhi, April 5: The government will go ahead with a plan for some consolidation of state-run banks after their recapitalisation, which is currently underway, and strengthening is done, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Tuesday.…

New Delhi, March 20: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Sunday that the BJP will improve its position significantly in the coming assembly elections in four states and a union territory. He also took on the Congress over its…

New Delhi, March 13: The government hopes to enact the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and bankruptcy bills in the second half of the budget session of parliament beginning April 20, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Sunday. "The…

By Amulya Ganguli  On the day Finance Minister Arun Jaitley claimed the BJP had won the ideological war in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) battle because student leader, Kanhaiya Kumar, had waved the national flag and said "Jai…

New Delhi, March 11:   The Congress on Friday alleged that Vijay Mallya, the founder of the now defunct Kingfisher Airlines (KFA), was tipped off to leave the country through a "secret understanding" between him and the government.…

New Delhi, March 11:  The Lok Sabha on Friday passed the Aadhaar bill to give legal teeth to the government in ensuring its subsidies and services reach the intended beneficiaries directly, thereby going beyond the scheme's current…

New Delhi, Feb 29: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who presented India's national budget for the next fiscal in the Lok Sabha on Monday, gave every bit of a competition to the fashion savvy Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a suave light blue…

New Delhi, Feb 29: The government on Monday announced allocation of Rs.100 crore for the celebrations of the birth centenary of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay, a leader of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the forerunner of BJP. "The government…