Mumbai: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the ballooning subsidy bill needs to be lowered by rationalising the dole-outs.Stating the government should not be doling out pre-poll populist measures that increases the subsidy bill, Jaitley
New Delhi: Ahead of the visit of US Secretary of State John Kerry, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today held a meeting with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to discuss various
New Delhi: Amid protests from civil services aspirants against the new exam pattern, the government today convened a high-level meeting to resolve the issue. The meeting was chaired by Home Minister Rajnath Singh and attended
New Delhi: Asserting that the new dispensation is not a high-tax government, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today that lower taxes and duties were aimed at improving savings for investment and making manufacturing competitive to
New Delhi: Government today said it was making all efforts to procure the list of illegal bank account holders in Switzerland and was collecting evidence in this regard.Finance Minister Arun Jaitley also said in Lok
New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the maiden budget of Narendra Modi government for the financial year 2014-14 on 10 July 2014 in the parliament. The government came out with several schemes, reforms, projects
New Delhi: The US tonight promised to deal “professionally” with India's “concerns” over reported snooping of BJP by American spy agency NSA.“We understand the concerns which has been raised, we will deal with them professionally,”
New Delhi: The government today allocated Rs 100 crore for construction of a war memorial and a war museum at Princess Park near India Gate here.Presenting his first budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the
New Delhi: As part of military modernization drive, Government today allocated Rs 2.29 lakh crore for the Defence Ministry in the Budget, marking an increase of around 12.5 per cent from the last fiscal as
New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley blamed the recent hike in rail fares on decisions taken under the previous UPA regime and said that the BJP-led government should be judged from what is presented tomorrow
New Delhi: Irked by angry reactions to his Facebook post on ‘World UFO Day' today, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley withdrew the message within hours.Jaitley, who frequently uses Facebook to post official messages and communicate with
New Delhi: Indicating that his maiden budget next week will not indulge in ‘mindless populism', Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the government would take bold decisions and pursue path of fiscal prudence to revive
New Delhi: Seeking to expedite information sharing from the European nation, finance minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said the government will write to Switzerland seeking details of Indians having unaccounted money in Swiss banks.The minister's
New Delhi: The Budget session of 16th Lok Sabha is scheduled to commence from 7 July and will end on 25 August 2014. According to the India TV's exclusive report, the session will begin after
New Delhi: With prices of essential food items shooting up, the Centre today unveiled measures to tame inflation by asking state governments to crack down on hoarders and delist items such as onions and potato
New Delhi: Congress today attacked Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for attributing rise in inflation partly to hoarding by traders, saying the government was trying to find “excuses for its non-performance” and inability to bring “good
Srinagar: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said fiscal disciplining is required to put the economy of the country back on tracks as India has witnessed two successive years of sub-five per cent growth. “At this
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