Former NSA Shivshankar Menon said the defence minister did not have a right to voice his personal opinion on nuclear policy in public, particularly when that opinion contradicted the country's official policy.
'People are willing to face temporary inconvenience as they are determined to support PM Modi's crackdown on black money,' Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tells Archis Mohan.
ArthaKranti wants the government to abolish income tax and 56 other taxes and replace it by a banking transaction tax.
Budget announcements will come right before five states, with population of around 250 million, go to polls.
A BJP leader said the money would be spent on welfare schemes for the poor, modernising of defence forces, and improving schools.
Vijay Shekhar Sharma, head of Paytm, says they'd achieve their 500-million user target by 2018, two years before the earlier aim.
It has the potential to burnish his image as a strong leader, bring down inflation and could turn out to be common man-friendly.
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