Former finance minister Arun Jaitley breathed his last on August 24, 2019. He was 66. Jaitley had been undergoing treatment at the AIIMS for several weeks. In the Vajpayee government (1998–2004), he held the cabinet portfolios of Finance, Corporate Affairs, Commerce and Industry and Law and Justice. Since 1991, he has been a member of the national executive of BJP and became the spokesperson of the saffron party during the period preceding the 1999 Lok Sabha election. From 2009 to 2014 he served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha. He is also a senior advocate in the Supreme Court. Since 1987, he has been practicing law before the Supreme Court of India and several High Courts in the country. Early life: In 1973, Arun Jaitley graduated with a honours degree in commerce, BCom from Shri Ram College of Commerce, New Delhi. In 1977, he passed his LLB degree from the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. At the Delhi University, Jaitley was an Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) student leader and in 1974, rose to be the President of the Students Union of Delhi University. He was under preventive detention for a period of 19 months during the period of proclamation of Internal Emergency (1975–77). After getting out of jail, he joined the Jan Sangh.
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New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley yesterday appealed to bank employee unions to call off their proposed four-day nationwide strike from February 25 as talks are on for a revision of wages of employees.The Minister
New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Saturday appealed to the public sector banks (PSB) employees not to participate in a proposed four-day strike later this month.According to the finance ministry, Jaitley has made an appeal
New Delhi: Ahead of parliament's Budget session, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, senior ministers and leaders of opposition parties will attend an all-party meeting called by the Speaker on Sunday, to explore consensus on passing key
New Delhi: Virtually rebutting criticism by leading banker Deepak Parekh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the government is being criticised for rather being “too fast”.While Jaitley parried a question on Parekh's criticism yesterday that
New Delhi: The process of printing documents for the Budget 2015-16 began today with the ritual 'halwa ceremony', which was attended by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the North Block office.It has been a tradition
Chennai: The central government's intervention in early settlement of wage revision, timely appointment of workmen directors, and merger of regional rural banks (RRB) with their sponsors were some of the demands submitted by two bank
New Delhi: PDP President Mehbooba Mufti, who has been in the national capital since last weekend, today met Finance Minister Arun Jaitley as her party and BJP try to narrow differences over a Common Minimum
New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is likely to provide tax incentives in Budget to encourage companies to participate in Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and Clean Ganga campaign as part of mandatory two per cent CSR
New Delhi: The government is planning to come up with an incentive package in the upcoming Budget to encourage manufacturing of electronic hardware including mobile phones and laptops as part of the 'Make in India'
New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the ongoing auction of coal mines would help in ensuring cheaper electricity to the common man in a sustained manner as against the practice of states subsidising
Mumbai: While the budget is about to be unveiled, various noises could be heard from all corners of the markets. The foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) are known to have pumped Rs 11,300 crore in the
New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is likely to announce an ambitious Rs 45,000 crore disinvestment target for the FY16 during his 2015 Union budget.The move is expected to allow him to keep the fiscal
New Delhi: India's economy is poised to take off at a much faster pace, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday.Asia's third-largest economy grew an annual 7.5 per cent year-on-year in the quarter through December,
New Delhi: In the backdrop of BJP's shocking defeat in the Delhi Assembly election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today held deliberations with his senior Cabinet colleagues from the party.Immediately after the meeting of the Union
New Delhi: The black money commotion gained momentum, on Monday, when names of 100 Indians who hold accounts in Swiss bank were revealed by The Indian Express.The money worth Rs 25,420 crore is stashed in
New Delhi: Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley Monday said India must have a formal war history which every child should read.Speaking at the launch of the 'India - 2015 Reference Annual', which entered its
New Delhi: An Indian Express report on Monday said that “the number of Indians holding accounts in Swiss bank is actually double than what has been obtained by the Indian government”.According to the list of
New Delhi: Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), an automobile industry body, has asked the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to reduce excise duty on automobiles in the forthcoming budget in order to help the sector
New Delhi: As Delhi geared up for its biggest battle, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley cautioned voters that their choice was between “governance and anarchy”, and told them that the result would impact the “country's image”.Finance
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