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The Union Minister for Finance, Defence and Corporate Affairs, Mr Arun Jaitley will chair the 16th Meeting of the GST Council scheduled to be held on Sunday, 11th June, 2017 at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi. The one day Meeting will also be attended among others by the Finance Ministers of different States and UTs (having elected assembly) being the ...

The Union Minister for Finance, Defence and Corporate Affairs, Mr Arun Jaitley will chair a meeting of CMDs/CEOs of the Public Sector Banks to review their performance on 12th June, 2017 in New Delhi. This will be the First Meeting in the Current Financial Year 2017-18 which will discuss issues and solutions relating to Non Performing Assets (NPAs) of the Public ...

Ever since Narendra Modi won elections in May 2014, the number of his followers on Facebook tripled from 14 million to 41.9 million today, making him the most-followed leader in the world, thanks to increased importance of social media in India. However, in a country of 125 crore population, 4 crore followers on Facebook may sound too little but the ...

    *By Arun Jaitley Two months have passed since the Prime Minister announced the decision that high denominational currency notes would cease to be a legal tender. Subsequently those notes have been demonetised. When 86% of a country’s currency constituting 12.2% of its GDP, is squeezed out of the market and sought to be replaced by a new currency, ...

Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley has unveiled a new initiative by setting-up the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) that he said was done by the present Government in the shortest possible time. The Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister was speaking at the function organized by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) on ...

Despite eleventh hour effort to stop the trade unions’ call for a Bharat Bandh on Friday with hike in minimum wage hike, government has failed to stem the shut down which will affect the country, ranging from shutdown of banks, factories and government offices across the nation. While state governments will take a decision on closure of schools and colleges, ...

With its focus on agriculture and farmers’ welfare, mission to provide LPG connection to poor households, a new health protection scheme, increased outlay for infrastructure, Rs. 2.87 Lakh crore Grant in Aid to Gram Panchayats and Municipalities, setting up of 1500 Multi Skill Training Institutes and incentives for jobs creation, the Budget 2016 presented in Lok Sabha today by Union ...

Following the Centre’s move to mobilize gold stash into bank deposits has reportedly found favour with the ally Telugu Desam government which has directed the Tirumala Tirupathi Devastanams to deposit its gold ornaments and coins under the scheme. The Tirumala temple (of Balaji) is the richest Hindu temple in the world and devotees offer nearly one tonne worth gold every ...

Leaving aside Shahrukh Khan who was asked by some Hindutva elements to go and live in Pakistan, it was another Khan, that too, Aamir Khan who had voiced his disenchantment with intolerance, which is vividly growing in the country unabated. Aamir Khan, who was behind “Satyameva jayate” TV show and champion of “Incredible India” has come out openly expressing his ...

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi, today described the “Right To Information” Act as a tool through which the common man has got not just the right to know, but also the right to question those in power. In his remarks at the 10th Annual Convention of the Central Information Commission (CIC), the Prime Minister said that the Union Government’s “Digital ...