Rajya Sabha adjourned for the day after uproar over Cauvery
New Delhi | The Rajya Sabha was on Friday adjourned for the day without transacting any business after uproar by opposition members over the construction of...
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Arun Jaitley lauds NIA, defends snooping order
New Delhi | Finance Minister Arun Jaitley lauded the NIA for busting an alleged Islamic terror plot, saying it would not have been possible without interception...
Earlier single standard GST rate was stupid idea, now ‘declared goal’: P Chidambaram slams Modi govt
New Delhi | Former finance minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday attacked the Centre over its alleged change in stance on the Goods and Services Tax regime,...
Arun Jaitley appreciates NIA for cracking ISIS module
New Delhi | Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today appreciated the National Investigation Agency (NIA) work of busting the ISIS-inspired module in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi...
Single standard GST rate was ‘stupid idea’ till recently, now govt’s ‘declared goal’: Chidamabaram
New Delhi | Former finance minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday attacked the Centre over its alleged change in stance on the Goods and Services Tax regime,...
Inheritance tax has spurred large endowments to hospitals, universities in the West, says Jaitley
New Delhi | Hospitals, universities and other institutions in developed countries receive large endowments due to factors like inheritance tax, which is not the case in...
Government to meet fiscal deficit target of 3.3 percent: Arun Jaitley
New Delhi | Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday expressed confidence of meeting the fiscal deficit target of 3.3 per cent of GDP for the current...
PM Modi ‘unmade’ India: Yashwant Sinha in no-holds-barred book
New Delhi | GDP numbers are misleading, RBI’s autonomy is in extreme danger and demonetisation is the biggest banking scam, former finance minister Yashwant Sinha...
Electoral Bonds: Did the government deceive parliament over ECI concerns?
Radhakrishnan in his written reply denied that there were any concerns flagged by the Election Commission over electoral bonds. Did the Modi government brazenly...
Allegations on Rafale ‘fiction writing’; disrupters have lost on all counts: Jaitley
New Delhi | Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Friday dubbed allegations on the Rafale jet deal as “fiction writing” that compromised national security, after the Supreme Court...