MUMBAI: Former finance minister Arun Jaitley had encouraged Raghuram Rajan to take decisive action on cleaning up bad loans of Indian banks, the former RBI governor said in a recent interview to a ...

The Union government plans to propose GST rate and slab cuts to the GST Council. Can this reform make India's indirect tax ...

In the first term, the then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the budget five times. At the same time, due to the Lok Sabha elections in 2019, the interim budget was presented in February ...

2. Arun Jaitley: Former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in 2016, focusing on the state of the economy, cited an Urdu couplet which said - “Kashti chalaane walon ne jab haar kar di patwar hamein ...

Budget of 2014 (Finance Minister: Arun Jaitley) Lok Sabha elections were held in 2014, so in February, the Congress government presented the interim budget. When the BJP came to power after the ...

Previous Finance Ministers, including Arun Jaitley and Piyush Goyal from the Modi government, used the standard Budget briefcase. The tradition of carrying the Budget briefcase is a British legacy.

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