PM visits 'dear friend' Arun Jaitley's family

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the family members of former Union minister Arun Jaitley at his residence in New Delhi on Tuesday and offered floral tributes to a portrait of the departed......

BJP MLAs to pick Madhya Pradesh CM on Monday

The Bharatiya Janata Party's newly-elected MLAs in Madhya Pradesh will meet on Monday to elect the leader of the legislative party. IMAGE: BJP supporters during an event in Bhopal.......

READ: Arun Jaitley's open letter to PM on misuse of CBI

In an open letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley has urged him to put an end to the alleged misuse of investigative agencies by the......

It's Modi govt that wanted to bring inheritance tax: Cong

The Congress on Wednesday asserted that it has no plans to introduce inheritance tax in the country as a row erupted over the remarks by its leader Sam Pitroda, who also later said that his......

UPA's policy is anti-citizen: Arun Jaitley

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday criticized the Union Budget 2012-13 saying it has "dampened" economic sentiments as almost all services have been brought under tax ambit. "The approach......

Meet Nirmalaji's Core Budget Team

The finance minister continues to be backed by the same policy team in charting out the broad strategy as in the few earlier Budgets. IMAGE: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman distributes halwa......

Not the time to open retail to FDI: Arun Jaitley

The reform on foreign direct investment in the retail sector might have got the support of the Bharatiya Janata Party if the government had sequenced it correctly, said Arun Jaitley, leader of the......

Will Arun Jaitley present an innovative Budget?

The FM could scrap the secrecy around tax rates and exempt the tax dept from revenue collection targets, notes A K Bhattacharya. Image: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister......

Our problem is how to save the IPL: Arun Jaitley

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley believes that only politicians should work as the office bearers of the state associations so that they can rescue an important event like Indian......