Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that India is at the world's centre stage more than ever before for "aspiring to do better in an adverse" environment.

Hitting out at Pakistan for using terrorism as an "instrument of state policy", Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Friday that Brand Pakistan' "really identifies with global terror" as every major terrorist incident in the

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today called on the World Bank to work together with the member countries to explore innovative financing solutions.

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said that the economic impact arising from recent tensions with Pakistan will be ‘extremely marginal.

The Income Declaration Scheme by the government has evoked blackmoney worth Rs 65,250 crore during its four-month compliance window that ended on September 30, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today. Jaitley said 64,275 declarations were

Working to meet its promised April 1, 2017, deadline for the rollout of Goods and Services Tax, the government today said the first meeting of the GST Council was held in a "very cordial and

Union Finance Minister has said that deepening the Indian bond market is a priority for the government, particularly in the face of increased challenges globally.

In its first set of decisions, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council headed by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitely today fixed the turnover-based exemption limit from such levies at Rs 20 lakh, but left the decision on fixing the actual tax rates

The Finance Ministry today expressed concerns about the methodology used by credit rating agency Moody's.

The first meeting of the newly-constituted Goods and Services Tax Council, with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley as chairman, is scheduled for two days from Thursday amid high expectations that the country will see a new indirect tax scheme in place fro

The all powerful GST Council will meet for the first time tomorrow to iron out issues between Centre and states for rolling out the GST from April 1, 2017.

The Union cabinet today officially gave its approval for the merger of Railways Budget with the General Budget.

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Saturday said that he will be a better finance minister than the incumbent Arun Jaitley. "I am an economist. He is a lawyer. How can he be better than me?"

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today stated that four PSU banks are working towards keeping the number of zero-balance accounts low. The banks are "investigating from their branches" whether money in some Jandhan accounts was deposited

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday reviewed the preparation to roll out India's most transformative tax reform in decades, Goods and Services Tax or GST regime, possibly from April 1 next year, with Finance Minister

Finance Ministry has launched a web portal that will enable over 11.61 lakh government pensioners to track the status of their pension.

The Centre on Wednesday announced a special financial package along with full funding of the Pollavaram irrigation project and tax concessions to Andhra Pradesh in lieu of the special category status promised by the previous

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today hailed the Goods and Services Tax (GST), dubbing it a long-standing reform that will have transformational impact on the Indian economy. He was speaking at the Economist India Summit in

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley here on Thursday nudged banks to show more progress exhorting them to support the growth possibilities of the country. "Banks in India need to give top priority to support the growth

In a bid to attract more overseas funds, the government today approved a new policy that promises granting residency to high net-worth foreign nationals.