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Six items removed from 28 pc GST tax slab, cinema tickets to become cheape
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi, Dec 22 (ANI) Six items were on Saturday removed from the 28 per cent tax slab of GST, according to a decision taken by the GST Council as part of its effort to rationalise the taxes.
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Jaitley throws weight behind Air Force chief, castigates Congress
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 21 (ANI): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday threw his weight behind Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa, and castigated the Congress for criticising Air Force chief, who stressed the need for Rafale fighter planes to improve India's combat ability.
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Repeated same order existing since 2009: Jaitley on MHA surveillance order
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 21 (ANI): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday told the Rajya Sabha that Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has only repeated the same order, pertaining to surveillance, which was there since 2009.
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Ram Vilas Paswan, son to meet Jaitley over 2019 seat sharing
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 21 (ANI): Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan and his son Chirag Paswan will meet Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday afternoon to discuss 2019 Lok Sabha elections seat sharing, sources said.
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Govt to infuse Rs 83,000 crore in public sector banks: Jaitley
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] Dec 20 (ANI): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said that government will infuse Rs 83,000 crore in public sector banks in the next few months of the current fiscal.
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Jaitley slams Mamata govt for halting 'BJP's Rath Yatra'
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] Dec 20 (ANI): Hours after the Calcutta High Court granted permission to BJP for holding 'Rath Yatra in West Bengal', Union Minister and BJP leader Arun Jaitley hit out at Mamata Banerjee-led government for halting the yatra in the state asserting that "if any NDA or BJP gov
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NITI Aayog releases Strategy for New India @ 75, aims for USD 4 trillion e
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 19 (ANI): The NITI Aayog on Wednesday unveiled its comprehensive national Strategy for New India, defining clear objectives for 2022-23, and calling for a steady acceleration of the economy to achieve a GDP growth rate of about 8 per cent on an average during 2018-23.
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1984 anti-Sikh riot injustice hangs around Congress, Gandhi family's neck:
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi, [India] Dec 17 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that the injustice in 1984 anti-Sikh riots hangs around the neck of Congress party and Gandhi family, who allegedly provided a cover-up to the guilty.
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Neither Sajjan Kumar was given ticket, nor he holds any office: Congress
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi, [India] Dec 17 (ANI): Former Union Minister and senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Monday said that neither Sajjan Kumar - convict in the 1984 anti-Sikh riot case -- was given a ticket by the Congress, nor he does not hold any office.
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Rahul Gandhi brought immoral equivalence between Rafale, Bofors: Jaitley
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 16 (ANI): Union finance minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday alleged that Congress president Rahul Gandhi was trying to bring an "immoral equivalence" between the Rafale fighter jet deal and Bofors scam.
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India cannot function with fragile coalitions in future: Jaitley
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 15 (ANI): With the general elections expected to take place within the next six months, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley asserted that going forward, India cannot afford to have "fragile coalitions."
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BJP must accept SC's Ram Temple verdict like Rafale case dismissal order:
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Dec 14 (ANI): People's Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Friday asserted that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) should welcome the Supreme Court's verdict in the Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid case just the way it hailed the order on the Rafale deal.
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