Arun Jaitley

New Delhi, May 12 (IANS): The bill on the goods and services tax (GST) was on Tuesday sent to a select committee of the Rajya Sabha. The committee will table its report in the upper house on the last day of the first week of next…

New Delhi, May 11 (IANS): The Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets bill, providing for heavy penalties for stashing black money away in foreign accounts, was passed by the Lok Sabha on Monday. Moving what is called the Black Money Bill…

New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) With barely three days to go for the budget session of the Lok Sabha to end, the government is set to move the Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets Bill, or the black money bill, on Monday. The lower house…

Mumbai, May 10 (IANS): Bollywood's evergreen charmer Shashi Kapoor was on Sunday conferred the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the highest honour in Indian cinema, by Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley at the iconic Prithvi Theatre…

New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) The government on Friday set up a high-level committee on minimum alternate tax (MAT) on foreign institutional investors (FIIs), following the passing of the Finance Bill, 2015-16, in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.…

New Delhi, May 6 (IANS): The Lok Sabha on Wednesday gave its consent to a far-reaching amendment to the Constitution to pave the way for a pan-India goods and services tax regime and create a unified market across the country, doing away…

Lauding the expanse of Indian cinema across the globe, Minister of Information and Broadcasting Arun Jaitley termed Indian film industry as its soft power abroad. “Cinema is also a component of India’s soft power abroad. We lead the…

Inflation is likely to average 3.7 percent in the current fiscal, which is higher than the 2 percent recorded in the last fiscal, a Dun & Bradstreet research report said. "D&B expects WPI (Wholesale Price Index) inflation to edge up…

Warning corporates not to take unfair advantage of the liberalised tax environment, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said the world is moving towards a more transparent regime that would remove the veil of secrecy from unlawful…

The Lok Sabha passed the Finance Bill, 2015 by a voice vote on Thursday. As many as 41 amendments moved by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley were passed, including for tax relief to foreign investors with income from securities transactions,…