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New Delhi, June 4 (IANS): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday that the forecast of deficit rain during the monsoon this year would not have any significant impact on food production owing to geographical distribution of the…

New Delhi, June 2 (IANS): After inaugurating a newly-minted facility to make special paper for currency notes at Hoshangabad in Madhya Pradesh a day before, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday pushed for greater use of plastic money.…

New Delhi, May 22 (IANS): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said the one rank one pension (OROP) concept was "an unambiguous commitment" of the government. Addressing a press conference held to mark one year of the Narendra Modi…

New Delhi, May 22 (IANS): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Friday the approach to governance in India has seen a complete transformation in the past year, not just with decisiveness but also in terms of speed, clarity and transparency,…

New Delhi, May 21 (IANS): With the Reserve Bank of India's monetary policy review due on June 2, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that inflation will not be a significant challenge though a below-average monsoon could possibly impact…

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 parliament…

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…

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill will be taken up for consideration and passage in the Lok Sabha later Tuesday. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who is returning on Tuesday from Azerbaijan capital Baku, where he was attending the…

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…