"The attack on innocent Kashmiris is condemnable. Our fight is against the separatists and terrorists. We need the people of Jammu and Kashmir with us in the fight against terror," Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley tweeted.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday assured government funding support to public sector banks and hoped that the 6 lenders which remain under the RBI's prompt corrective action framework will soon come out of it.
Union Minister Arun Jaitley, who is in the US for medical treatment, is in good health and recovering very rapidly, said interim Finance Minister Piyush Goyal.
This will be the last budget of the current BJP-led NDA government before the General Elections.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced the procurement of a batch of 36 Rafale jets after talks with the then French President Francois Hollande on April 10, 2015 in Paris.
The pre-requisite for ensuring growth is a decisive leadership, consistency in policy direction and a strong and stable government, and not "an unworkable alliance with maverick leadership whose longevity is a suspect can never achieve this" he said in the blog.
Addressing the party workers on the last day of the two-day BJP national Convention, Jaitley urged them to aggressively push the basic principles of the BJP's ideology and foil the opposition's attempts to create a "false narrative" through facts about the Modi government's performance.
The BJP and the Congress have been engaged in a bitter duel on the purchase of the Rafale fighter aircraft from France, with the latter alleging inflated prices and kickbacks and the former defending it as one conforming to rules.
Finance Minister Arun Jailtey on Thursday maintained in the Rajya Sabha that mistakes made by the Congress had led to alienation among people in Kashmir.
The cost of printing currency notes escalated to Rs 7,965 crore in 2016-17, the year when the government had banned the high-value 500 and 1,000 rupee bills, the government informed Parliament on Tuesday.
If the current growth rate continues for a decade or two, he said, Indian economy expansion is going to be exponential.
The meeting will happen against the backdrop of the 'Alternative Mechanism' (AM) to merge three public sector banks -- Bank of Baroda, Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank -- with a view to create a global-size lender, which will be stronger and sustainable
The Congress chief's attack comes after Arun Jaitley termed the Congress' charges on the defence deal a "complete falsehood" in his blogpost.
GST has been historic and game changer reform for the Indian economy, Arun Jaitley said while addressing a function commemorating the first year of the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax.
In the third part of his blog, Jaitley writes how the 21-month-long Emergency turned out the pathbreaking moment of his political career.
Taking a dig at the critics of the government, Jaitley said that India's GDP has not declined by 2 per cent on account of demonetization and GST implementation, nor will it India live in poverty as predicted by the former finance minister.
In an article, posted on his Facebook page titled 'How much does he know', Jaitley said; "Every time I listen to the view of Shri Rahul Gandhi, both inside and outside Parliament, I ask myself the same question – How much does he know? When will he know?
In the recent past, the budget was passed without any discussion in 2013-14 and 2003-04.
The statement from RBI comes hours after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that the PNB scam was a result of a failure of management and auditors.
Jaitley accused the opposition of trying to “manufacture an issue where none existed”, while Naidu expressed concern over the “negative public perception” that was being created by these disruptions
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