10 Former Finance Ministers that Set the Road Map of Indian Ec...

Finance minister P Chidambaram has declared that the Congress-led UPA government would not hesitate to take certain tough decisions in order to contain the fiscal and current account deficits. Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram speaks ...

Arun Jaitley, India's finance minister, had three main tasks in his budget speech that he delivered on Saturday, the traditional Feb. 28 date. One was to manage government finances, reduce spending deficits and curb inflation. The second was to ...

Opinion India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (centre L), President Pranab Mukherjee (centre R), Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan (3rd R) and Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari (R) walk inside the parliament premises as they arrive to attend ...

NEW DELHI: In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Make in India initiative to give domestic manufacturing a major push, the country's oil and gas sector is expected to see investments worth as much as Rs 5-6 lakh crore over the next five to ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government introduced a landmark goods and services tax bill in parliament as it seeks to spur growth by making India a genuine single market and replacing a thicket of state levies. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley ...

On several occasions in her life, Indira Gandhi invoked Rabindranath's song, ekla chalo re, to carve her own trail in politics. By and large, ekla chalo served the Congress well till 1996, after which it spent eight years out of power, with ...

hen last checked, service tax accounted for a total collection of Rs 17,500 cr to the national exchequer, or what is being saved in less than two weeks because of the continuing fall in crude oil prices. To collect this relatively small amount, an ...

What is the difference between greedy, short-sighted private promoters of public companies and the government if the latter too thinks that it could gobble up shareholders' funds in state-controlled enterprises (PSUs) held in the form of general ...

NEW DELHI: The BJP government's Make in India initiative could get top billing in the 2015-16 Union Budget with tax breaks and other measures for several sectors. Make in India is the centerpiece of the Narendra Modi administration's bid to ...