Tag: Arun Jaitley

Arun Jaitley in good health, recovering rapidly: Piyush Goyal

Union Minister Arun Jaitley, who is in the US for medical treatment, is in good health and recovering very rapidly, said interim Finance Minister Piyush Goyal.

January 25, 2019

Piyush Goyal gets additional charge of Finance Ministry as Arun Jaitley advised rest by doctors

Days before 2019-20 Budget is to be presented, Piyush Goyal given temporary charge of Finance and Corporate Affairs portfolios until Arun Jaitley resumes his duties; this is the second time he has been given the charge after May 2018

January 23, 2019

Arun Jaitley to be back to present Budget on 1 February

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who is in the US for a medical check up, will return home on Friday, well ahead of the Budget presentation on 1 February, official sources said.

January 21, 2019

This Gulf business tycoon wants to buy Leela Hotels, writes to Arun Jaitley

Emirati business tycoon Rashid Al-Habtoor has written to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley showing interest in acquiring the Leela Group with an equity infusion of about USD 600 million (about Rs 4,200 crore)

January 16, 2019

Arun Jaitley opens Hunar Haat in Delhi

Appreciating the Ministry for the initiative, Jaitley said that "Hunar Haat" was a great effort at projecting the talent of Indian artisans.

January 14, 2019

Universal Basic Income?

The key is accessibility of all to a basic income, without any ‘means’ test, which has been the bane of all social welfare schemes in India’s post-Aadhaar age.

January 12, 2019

2019 Lok Sabha polls: Rajnath Singh to head BJP manifesto committee

The roadmap for election preparation has been drawn up by party president Amit Shah; Arun Jaitley to head publicity wing, Sushma Swaraj will lead a group to produce literature for the polls, Ravi Shankar Prasad will head media group and Prakash Javadekar will lead group that will organise meetings of intellectuals

January 6, 2019

Aadhaar a game changer: Jaitley

Listing out the benefits of Aadhaar, Jaitley said that in the last 28 months, over 122 crore Aadhaar numbers have been issued, covering 99 per cent of the country's adult population.

January 6, 2019

Rafale row in Lok Sabha: Rahul Gandhi fires at BJP | Jaitley counters

Gandhi also wanted to play a purported recording of a conversation of a Goa Minister on the Rafale deal.

January 2, 2019

‘Ready for debate, decide a time’: Congress accepts Govt’s challenge on Rafale deal

The demand for probe comes weeks after the Supreme Court gave a clean chit to the Centre on the procurement of 36 Rafale fighter jets from France.

January 1, 2019

Triple Talaq Bill in Rajya Sabha: Opposition demands scrutiny of bill by select committee

The Opposition held a meeting which was chaired by Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad.

December 31, 2018

Arun Jaitley slams Congress, accuses it of ‘killing’ Sohrabuddin case probe

The senior BJP leader also shared a letter written to then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on September 27, 2013 as the Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha about the alleged politicisation of the investigation in Sohrabuddin case.

December 31, 2018

Skewed logic

At no stage have critics questioned any form of monitoring of criminal activity: only the present government is arrogant enough to consider every non-saffronised citizen as suspect.

December 29, 2018

Arun Jaitley lauds NIA for ISIS module bust, defends Govt’s data ‘snooping’ order

Earlier on Wednesday, the NIA conducted searches at 17 locations in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi in connection with its probe into a new ISIS module styled as ‘Harkat ul Harb e Islam’ and arrested 10 accused.

December 27, 2018

GST may have single standard rate between 12-18%: Arun Jaitley

The country should eventually have a GST which would have only slabs of zero, five per cent and standard rate with luxury and sin goods as an exception.

December 24, 2018

Rs 100 coin released by PM Modi in memory of Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Addressing a gathering at the Parliament House Annexe here, Modi said Vajpayee never compromised on the ideologies of the party and always spoke about national interest.

December 24, 2018

Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar hail government decision to cut GST on movie tickets

Producer Ritesh Sidhwani also thanked Modi for "your immediate action of reduction in GST on cinema tickets".

December 23, 2018