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Apparel and leather industry key to generation of formal and productive jo
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 31 (ANI): Apparel, leather and footwear sectors are integral to creating employment opportunities, the Economic Survey 2016-17 presented by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in parliament today says.
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Centre announces sale of floating rate bonds, govt. stock
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 31 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Centre on Monday announced the sale of floating rate bonds and government stock, as per the Economic Survey presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Parliament.
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RRT should be significantly linked to fiscal, governance efforts on part o
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Jan. 31 (ANI): The Economic Survey 2016-17, which was presented today in Parliament by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, states that Redistributive Resource Transfers (RRT) should be significantly linked to fiscal and governance efforts on the part of the states.
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Economic Survey says fiscal activism embraced by advanced economies not re
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 31 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday, while presenting the Economic Survey 2016-17 in Parliament, observed that India's economic experience shows that the fiscal activism embraced by advanced economies- giving a greater role to counter-cyclica
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Economic Survey says set up of centralised public sector asset rehabilitat
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan.31 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday called for establishing a centralised Public Sector Asset Rehabilitation Agency (PARA) that could deal with largest and most difficult cases of non-performing assets, and also make politically tough decisions to
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Finance Minister presents Economic Survey 2016-17 in the Parliament
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 30 (ANI): With new notes in circulation, the growth of the economy is expected to return back to normal, according to the Economic Survey 2016-17, which was presented to the parliament today.
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Manmohan Singh, Chidambaram are failed economists, don't need certifi
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 30 (ANI): Hitting back at former prime minister Manmohan Singh and former finance minister P. Chidambaram who criticised the government of 'painting a rosy picture of Indian economy' and not paying attention to key metrics like jobs creation, Union Informati
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Jaitley launches India Post Payments Bank, terms it as taking banking to e
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 23 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, along with Minister of State for Communications Manoj Sinha, on Monday launched the India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) at two pilot branches at Raipur and Ranchi through video conferencing from Delhi.
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Govt must have consulted RSS on demonetisation, says Chidambaram
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Jan. 29 (ANI): Deriding the Central Government and its decision of demonetising the high-end currency notes in November, former finance minister and senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Sunday said the government might have consulted some 'RSS prachaar
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Arun Jaitley faced with excessive hopes on 'Solve-All' Budget: A
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan.28 (ANI): Meeting excessive expectations riding on the forthcoming Union Budget in the aftermath of demonetisation could be a challenging task for the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, a pre-Budget assessment by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (A
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Demonetisation was a 'hoax, it will not kill back money: Chidambaram
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], Jan. 28 (ANI): Dubbing the government's claim that demonetisation would weed out black money and corruption as "hoax", former union finance minister P. Chidambaram has said that such issues are likely to persist since the November 8 decision was not &
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Govt. focusing on attaining sustainable economic growth: Pak FM
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Jan. 25 (ANI): Pakistan's Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has said that the government after achieving macroeconomic stability is now focusing on attaining higher, sustainable and inclusive economic growth.
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