Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Saturday said clean energy cess on coal will be increased by Rs.100 per tonne to fund clean environment initiatives....
The AAP government in Delhi Saturday criticised the union budget for keeping stagnant the non-plan grant for the capital - an amount not hiked for 14 long years....
Prices of petrol and diesel have been raised by Rs.3.18 and Rs.3.09 a litre (ex-Delhi), effective midnight, following a steep increase in international crude prices, Indian Oil Corp announced here Saturday....
At Rs.246,727 crore ($40 billion), India's defence spend was Saturday hiked a modest 7.74 percent, with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley declaring that “defence of every inch of our land is above everything elseâ€....
Highlights of the budget for 2015-16 presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the Lok Sabha on Saturday:...
There may be a deeper and more unsettling reason for Rahul Gandhi's present farewell to active politics than the explanation that he has gone away to mull over the factors which led to the Congress's recent electoral reverses. ...
Falling just short of big bang reforms called for by his own economic survey, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Saturday presented a Rs.17.78 lakh crore (nearly $300 billion) national budget for the next fiscal that seeks to put more money in the hands of the average citizen, tackle the menace of black money more effectively and end an e...
New Delhi, Feb 28 : Highlights of the budget for 2015-16 presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the Lok Sabha on Saturday:...
New Delhi, Feb 28 : Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Saturday said the government was committed to tracing black money stashed abroad and a comprehensive new law will be framed to track it. "On black money, a new structure including e-filing and tracking down is our abiding commitment," Jaitley said in his budget speech. He said a "comprehensive new law to t...
New Delhi, Feb 28 : Presenting the national budget for the next fiscal, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Saturday said the state of the country's economy was better placed today with its credibility re-established by a series of measures taken by his government. "I am presenting the union budget in an economic environment which is far more p...
