Jaitley was speaking at a breakfast session.
Bharatiya Janata Party leaders met President Pratibha Patil on Thursday to complain about "subversion" of Parliament over Lokpal issue and sought her intervention to re-convene the House to enable voting in Rajya Sabha on the crucial bill.
The finance minister said the economy had been slowing.
The Centre was seized of the issue of the continuing appreciation of the rupee against the dollar adversely affecting the exporting community, Union Commerce and Industry Minister Arun Jaitley said on Saturday.
Capital formation in agriculture is the key to the development of the rural infrastructure, said the finance minister.
GST is intended to create a single market and boost commerce in India's $2 trillion economy
Congress President Sonia Gandhi's writ seems to have run and how! The government in a sudden move, almost deceptively, put the women's bill to voice vote in the Rajya Sabha and opened the new chapter in constitutional history.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday night named 12 candidates, including cash-for-vote scam accused Faggan Singh Kulaste and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley for election to the upper house of Parliament.
'Well done, Mr Jaitley, now go and implement your schemes. No leakages, no lapses and no laziness.'
Jaitley is now a minister without portfolio in the Narendra Modi government.
Jaitley said the verdict held that nobody was guilty in the case and investigation agencies would take an appropriate decision, taking facts and history into account.
Vice President M Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, Bharatiya Janata Party leader LK Advani and several other leaders offered floral tributes to the martyrs at a solemn ceremony on Tuesday morning
The Congress, Trinamool Congress, Dravida Munnetra Kazagham and other opposition parties had wanted to raise several issues in the Upper House but Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu did not allow them and adjourned the House till 2 pm. After the Chair did not allow them again when the House met, they boycotted it for the rest of the day.
Jaitley remained steadfast in not caving in to sustained Opposition pressure.
Senior New Delhi-based journalist R Rajagopalan, who has been closely following the Union Budget preparations since 1977, lifts the veil off India's most secretive operation.
Training guns on Jaitley, Ashutosh said the Union finance minister should come clean on the alleged irregularities in the Delhi and District Cricket Association.
The Indian team, set to play the second Test against Australia from Friday, had to switch hotels in New Delhi.
'Amit Shah and Modi have a disciple and guru relationship. But Modi and Jaitley's relationship was based on friendship. That's the difference.'
Budget for women and children welfare increased from Rs 1,56,528 crores to Rs 1,84,632 crores for 2017-18
With the defeat of Arun Jaitley in his maiden electoral battle, Amritsar has become a sort of 'Hanamkonda' for the BJP.
The government said on Wednesday a consensus was needed quickly to pass a business-friendly land reform law
The first to bowl was Ramesh, who called Jaitley a "master spinner of facts".
LJP sources said the BJP's defeat in the five state polls have ignited a rethink in the party over its ties with the saffron party.
"Since 2014, I have never given him any appointment to meet me and the question of his having met me does not arise," Finance Minister Jaitley said in a Facebook post.
The government has also proposed to set up a Mission on Low Cost Affordable Housing to be anchored in the National Housing Bank.
He slammed those trying to stall passage of the Bill in Parliament saying they were attempting to 'stop progress of the country
The fiscal deficit in current fiscal has been estimated at 3.9%.
A delegation of ex-servicemen on Sunday met Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and submitted a memorandum seeking "corrections" in the One Rank One Pension notification, as their protest on the issue entered the 203rd day.
This is Jaitley's first overseas visit since his kidney ailment was confirmed in April last year.
An amendment in the 2013 bill was necessary, said Jaitley.
Both houses of Parliament were prorogued on Friday, almost a month after being adjourned sine die, ending the possibility of an extension of the Monsoon session in the face of continued stand-off between government and opposition.
Usually, the chair in the Upper House reads out obituary references before members rise as a mark of respect to the memory of the departed.
The fresh suit was filed on Monday in the Delhi high court after Jethmalani accused Jaitley of being 'guilty of crimes and crookery'.
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.
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has issued notices to the superstar and Union Law and Commerce Minister Arun Jaitley after finding their house a breeding ground for mosquito larvae.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley was on Sunday detained as he arrived at the airport here on his way to communal violence-hit Kishtwar, which was made out of bounds for political leaders by the Jammu and Kashmir government.
The efforts will also be made to introduce mobile banking on all kinds of phones, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told reporters after meeting the heads of PSU banks here on Thursday.
Even his critics say Thaawar Chand Gehlot is a man of delivery. 'If a task is assigned, he wins it over with political sagacity,' they say.
FinMin has already sought inputs from different central ministries for the Budget speech, which would be the last Budget of the current BJP-led NDA government before the 2019 general polls.
While Jaitley posted his hard-hitting response to the opposition's move in Facebook, BJP fielded its spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi, who is also a lawyer, to take on the Congress.
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