Jaitley gives relief for debt MF, IT payers

Pranab said he had met Singh when he became a junior finance minister in 1974 and was happy with his depth of knowledge in crucial economic issues Press Trust of India | New Delhi May 19, 2014 Last Updated at 00:21 IST President Pranab Mukherjee gave a ...

Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi has not resigned, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee told the Lok Sabha on Thursday.He, however, said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has received a communication f

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday shortly after President Pranab Mukherjee addressed a joint session of Parliament walked over to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and held Rahul Gandhi's hand in an expression of warmth. The two men ...

Finance Ministry Arun Jaitley has said that the Government will shortly take a call on General Anti-Avoidance Agreement (GAAR), which was deferred till April 2015 by the UPA regime, reports media. "I must confess, I have not yet gone into the whole ...

KOLKATA: Amitava Guha recollects how he was once given some well-meaning advice by a fellow public sector bank chief over a decade ago. Guha at the time was managing director of . The advice went like this: "Boss, you are making a mistake. You ...

The finance minister in his Budget speech had announced a composite foreign direct investment (FDI) cap of 49 per cent in the insurance sector, with full Indian management and control. This has opened a Pandora's Box for the industry, especially ...

Budget 2014, as an eminent columnist said, was not a bang but not a whimper either. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley stressed on growth while he presented the Budget in the Lok Sabha this year. What effect will the Budget have on the lives of the common people? Will it let them save more? Will the Budget cut down on inflation? Eminent business journalist and author Tamal Bandyopadhyay discussed these issues with rediff.com readers during a live chat on Tuesday, July 15. Here is the transcript: ...

It was a tour of the Rashtrapati Bhavan today for Prime Minister Narendra Modi who visited the Presidential palace, an event which ended with a maiden one-to-one lunch with President Pranab Mukherjee. This was the first luncheon meeting between ...

KOLKATA: Amritsar & Delhi both being sufficiently banked, the trend of opening branches in the FM's constituency or hometown likely to ebb out banker Amitava Guha recounts how he was once given some well-mean Veteraning advice by a fellow public ...