Tag: Arun Jaitley

Arun Jaitley says India’s economy has come a long way in last four years

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on the Sunday that India has come a long way from the days when high inflation, fiscal deficit and a stunted power and infra sector was what the India story was all about.

August 26, 2018

Arun Jaitley re-appointed as Finance Minister after 3 months break

The temporary charge was given to Union Minister Piyush Goyal as Jaitley had undergone a kidney transplant on May 14 and was recovering from it.

August 23, 2018

Forex reserves comfortable to counter rupee fall: Jaitley

At the end of the intra-bank trade session on Tuesday, the Indian rupee strengthened by four paise at 69.90 against the dollar

August 15, 2018

Now portal for grant in-aid to H’yana govt

Haryana government on Wednesday launched an online portal for the release of grant-in-aid to various government departments. An official spokesperson said with this, Haryana has become the first state in the country to take such a unique initiative and the step is in complete sync with the vision of digital India as envisaged by Prime …

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August 9, 2018

India’s sovereignty not a play thing: Arun Jaitley tells Rahul, Mamata

Jaitley reminded that Mamata Banerjee had herself expressed alarm in the Lok Sabha in 2005 over the infiltration from Bangladesh into her state.

August 1, 2018

GST replaced ‘Congress legacy tax’ with ‘good and simple tax’: Arun Jaitley

The Minister added that the day GST was implemented, several items earlier proposed to be put in the 28 percent category (where the 31 percent items were adjusted) were brought down to 18 percent. 

July 27, 2018

GST Council tweaks rates | Complete list of items that will get cheaper

Decisions applicable from 27 July; Piyush Goyal says the GST Council will now focus on job creation too.

July 22, 2018

Rahul Gandhi concocted talks with French president, hurt his own image: Jaitley

Rahul Gandhi had met Macron in March during the French president's visit to the country.

July 21, 2018

Congress doing to Kumaraswamy what it did to Deve Gowda, others: Arun Jaitley

Kumaraswamy recently said he was "not happy" as Karnataka Chief Minister and was swallowing pain like Lord Shiva who drank poison.

July 16, 2018

India may pip Great Britain to become 5th largest economy in 2019: Arun Jaitley

While India displayed significant improvement in 2017, rising international crude oil prices and global trade war would throw up challenges going forward.

July 13, 2018

Arun Jaitley hails Syama Prasad Mookerjee, blames Nehru for ‘free speech paradox’

"Pandit Nehru amended the Constitution so that a demand for ‘Akhand Bharat’ could incite a war and therefore should be prohibited...we all were told that to advocate a breakup of the country without inciting violence is legitimate free speech," said Jaitley.

July 6, 2018

SC verdict neither adds nor dilutes power of Delhi govt, Centre: Arun Jaitley

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley took to his official Facebook blog on Thursday to share his thoughts on the Supreme Court judgment taken on 4 July which said that the Lieutenant-Governor of Delhi does not have independent decision-making powers, and is bound to act on the aid and advice by its Council of Ministers.

July 5, 2018

GST not disruptive, higher revenues to aid rate rationalisation: Jaitley

Jaitley dismissed the idea of a single rate GST being advocated by Congress President Rahul Gandhi as flawed saying that it can only work in a country where the entire population has 'similar and high' capacity to spend.

July 1, 2018

Modi government plans mega event to mark 1st anniversary of GST on July 1

The Government is planning a mega event to mark the first anniversary of GST roll out on July 1 with the participation of industry chambers, traders, and tax officials, besides, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal. Union Minister Arun Jaitley too would be addressing the gathering through video conferencing. Sources said the government has decided to celebrate …

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June 26, 2018

Sinister reminders

Any suggestion that the media and civil liberties are presently under pressure would have leaders of both government and ruling party hark back to the Emergency ~ of which the BJP projects itself as the principal opponent: witness Arun Jaitley’s pontificating essay on his preferred electronic platform. Yet it is a sinister, cowardly, silence that …

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June 26, 2018

On 43rd anniversary of Emergency, Arun Jaitley compares Indira Gandhi to Hitler

Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday launched a scathing attack on the Congress and compared former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who imposed Emergency, to Adolf Hitler, alleging that both leaders used the Constitution “to transform democracy into dictatorship”. On the 43rd anniversary of imposition of Emergency, Jaitley noted that unlike the German dictator, Gandhi went …

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June 25, 2018

Calling Rahul jehadi-Maoist sympathiser is laughable and absurd: Chidambaram

In an apparent attack on Union Minister Arun Jaitley, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday said that the allegation that “jehadists and Maoists” have earned the sympathy of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi is “laughable and absurd” adding that the party is “stoutly opposed” to the two groups. In a series of tweets, Chidambaram wrote, …

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June 23, 2018