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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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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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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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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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FRBM Committee present report to Arun Jaitley
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 23 (ANI):The Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Committee, headed by N.K. Singh, former Revenue and Expenditure Secretary and former Member of Parliament, presented its report to the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday in his office in North
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Amritsar unfortunate to have had 'absentee MP' Navjot Sidhu: Aru
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Amritsar [India], Jan. 21 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday fired a salvo at cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, who recently quit the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and joined the Congress, and said the city of Amritsar has had the misfortune of having an
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Cabinet approves listing of shares of public sector GICs
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New Delhi [India], Jan 18 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday announced the Cabinet's decision to approve the listing of shares of public sector General Insurance Companies on the stock exchanges through either issue of fresh equity or offer of sale with a combinatio
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Service tax likely to be hiked to 18 pct this budget
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 18 (ANI): Most services are likely to attract a tax of 18 percent under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) as Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presents the Union Budget on February 1.
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GST roll-out deadline deferred to July 1
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 16 (ANI): The Goods and Service Tax (GST) council, headed by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, on Monday met to break the deadlock over who gets to administer the GST and managed to achieve consensus on the 'dual control' or 'cross empowerment'
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Direct tax collections in Apr-Dec up 12 pct; indirect tax up 25 pct, says
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 9 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday announced that the direct tax collection during the first nine months of the current financial year 2016-17 grew 12.01 percent on year to Rs 5.53 lakh crore.
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Government is discussing the issue: Jaitley on petrol pumps' protests
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 9 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said that the government is discussing the issue of petrol pumps and organisations protesting over one percent transaction fees on card payments proposed by the banks.
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