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India will launch an all out effort to isolate Pakistan and all diplomatic efforts will be launched in this regard
Currently, only Coal India, the world's largest coal miner, and its smaller sister PSU Singareni Collieries besides mining agencies of state government are allowed commercial coal mining.
We present here a graphic explanation of the Budget 2016.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said that retail inflation is expected to remain close to 5 per cent
Budget for women and children welfare increased from Rs 1,56,528 crores to Rs 1,84,632 crores for 2017-18
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said despite a global slowdown and its impact on countries, India remains insulated from the economic fallout.
"I am an economist. He is a lawyer. How can he be better than me," Swamy, whose antagonism for Jaitley is open, said at an event in New Delhi on Saturday.
Jaitley's fiscal arithmetic, Crisil said, is "shaky", and the scope for fiscal slippage "remains high".
He further said the dollar has strengthened against almost every other currency and added that the rupee has consistently either strengthened or remained in a range.
Jaitley, the first Union minister to meet Jaya since her conviction, manages to secure the AIADMK's conditional support to the government's crucial legislations in the Rajya Sabha.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will set a record by presenting the sixth Budget in a row -- 5 annual Budgets and one interim -- a feat achieved so far only by former Prime Minister Morarji Desai. With the presentation of interim Budget on February 1, Sitharaman will surpass the records of her predecessors like Manmohan Singh, Arun Jaitley, P Chidambaram, and Yashwant Sinha, who had presented five budgets in a row. Desai, as Finance Minister, had presented five annual Budgets and one interim Budget between 1959-1964. The interim Budget 2024-25 to be presented by Sitharaman on February 1, will be a vote-on-account that will give the government authority to spend certain sums of money till a new government comes to office after the April-May general elections.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the Reserve Bank and the Finance Ministry have "very mature level of consultation" and it wasn't fair to comment on them.
BCCI's president-in-exile Narayanswami Srinivasan is set to discuss his future course of action with Union finance minister Arun Jaitley.
Jaitley, who was the finance minister before a medical procedure led to the charge being temporarily taken away from him, missed presenting the sixth and final Budget of the Narendra Modi government before the general elections. In his absence, the charge of the ministry was given to Railways Minister Piyush Goyal.
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Adani CEO Jeyakumar Janakraj said the Adani issue was not on the agenda of Jaitley's visit.
Ex-servicemen seeking changes in government's OROP scheme on Monday shifted their protest back to Jantar Mantar in New Delhi from outside Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
As the finance minister rises in the House to present the Budget, some interesting facts about the annual financial plan for the country.
About 15 per cent of the country's total GDP comes from agriculture.
This is Jaitley's first overseas visit since his kidney ailment was confirmed in April last year.
Demonetisation will help in transfer of resources from tax evaders to government, he said.
Nitin Gadkari is the rising star, Arun Jaitley commands respect while minister of state Dharmendra Pradhan seems to be the PM's new favourite.
Addressing a business conference, Jaitley said it was important to stay on the path of reform and build momentum to achieve higher economic growth.
The government said on Wednesday a consensus was needed quickly to pass a business-friendly land reform law
Jaitley said he would stick to the fiscal deficit target.
He said taxation has to be rationalised to make Indian products competitive.
Frosty Indo-Pak relations after the beheading of Indian soldiers by Pakistani troops were on full display in Yokohama, Japan.
India on Saturday strongly demanded creation of global safety nets to address concerns over volatility in currency movements and markets.
Noted criminal lawyer Ram Jethmalani will represent Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in the civil and criminal defamation suits filed against him by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
Vijay Rupani and his deputy Nitin Patel took oath on Sunday in Gandhinagar.
Watches, pens, shawls, shirts or even shoes, the former finance minister had a penchant for all of them and his collection consisted of the choicest of brands ranging from "Patek Phillipe (in watches) to Mont Blanc (in pens)".
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the inflation index would determine the nominal growth figure, and it is better to set modest targets and outperform them.
During his first Union Budget in July 2014, former finance minister Arun Jaitley announced the setting up of an institution called 3P India, with an allocation of Rs 500 crore. The intention was to mainstream public-private partnerships (PPPs) in India. The plan was to bring together the capacities of the government and private sector to push PPP projects.
Heated exchanges were witnessed between Union Minister Arun Jaitley and senior advocate Ram Jethmalani in the Delhi high court on Wednesday during the former's cross-examination in a defamation case against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assets worth Rs 1.26 crore while Defence and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley stands out as the richest minister with assets totalling Rs 72.10 crore.
Union ministers Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Thaawarchand Gehlot, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Santosh Gangwar, Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal, BJP national general-secretary Arun Singh and party MP Maneka Gandhi also visited the hospital to know about his wellbeing.
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