Tag: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley

Washington: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has made a strong case for reforms in the H1-B/L1 visa processes during bilateral talks with senior US administration officials, even as he underlined the need to understand the global spillovers of domestic policy actions at a meeting here with G-20 Finance Ministers. “Jaitley made a strong case for reforms […]

New Delhi: Some measures to ease the difficulties being faced by traders owing to GST are likely to be announced after the GST Council’s meeting on Friday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and BJP President Amit Shah here and discussed the state of the economy and steps to revive growth. […]

Mumbai: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said the government was working towards getting back the earlier growth rate numbers of the country and was fully prepared for a “responsive action”. Jaitley’s clarification came amid reports of the government planning a financial stimulus to give a boost to the economy as the GDP numbers in […]

Gandhinagar: The 21st century will not only belong to Asia but also to Africa, hence India and Africa should navigate the journey together to shape their common future, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Tuesday. Addressing the 52nd annual meeting of the African Development Bank here, Jaitley said while India has been a bright spot […]

New Delhi: The Finance Bill 2017 was passed by Parliament on Thursday with the Lok Sabha rejecting the amendments proposed by the Rajya Sabha. The Bill, being a Money Bill, will now go to the President for approval before becoming law. Since the Lok Sabha did not accept any of the recommendations of the Rajya […]

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: “The Narendra Modi government was to increase our minimum salary but instead of taking a decision in this regard, it tricked us again by increasing the Dearness Allowance (DA),” alleged a Central government employee on the condition of anonymity. The government employees had been expecting the Centre to announce something related to the […]

The Central government employees are likely to get hike in basic pay as the National Anomaly Committee (NAC) is likely to meet soon to take a final decision on increasing the basic pay to Rs 21,000 from the recommended Rs 18,000 under the 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC). The committee, which was formed in September […]

Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetization of currency notes of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1, 000 denomination, I remember reading ‘Swaminomics’, Swaminathan S Ankleasria Aiyar’s weekly column in The Sunday Times of India, where the veteran journalist had estimated that about Rs. 3 lakh crore out of the nearly Rs. 16 lakh circulating […]

New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said here on Tuesday Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khans demand for actionable intelligence on the Pulwama attack was a “diversionary” and “shallow” statement as the origin of crime was known and Indian security forces were confident of dealing with the situation. After a meeting of the cabinet, he said […]

New Delhi: Under attack from the Congress for its failure to yet again designate JeM chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist, the government fielded Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for its defence who alleged that the original mistake, not only on Kashmir but also on China, was committed by Jawaharlal Nehru. Jaitley’s remarks came soon […]