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...Arun Jaitley, finance minister, on Thursday hit out at what he said were efforts to “discredit” the Central Statistics Office after it made substantial downgrades to the official annual growth rates between...
...announcement that it would transfer the Rs280bn to the government for the half-year ended December 2018 came after a meeting on Monday of its central board, which had begun with an address by finance minister Arun...
...Arun Jaitley, the Indian finance minister, announced on Wednesday that Mr Subramanian, a former economist at the International Monetary Fund, would return to the US for family-related reasons....
...But Arun Jaitley, the finance minister, chose not to do so in the last Budget, and Mr Subramanian has said: “I don’t think we’re going to err on that again.”...
...Arun Jaitley, finance minister, has pushed back against the clamour for privatisation, saying it was unlikely to find favour with “Indian political opinion”....
...This article has been amended to reflect the fact that Arun Jaitley, India’s Finance Minister, not Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister, helped Arvind Subramanian to find a home in New Delhi, as originally...
...Instead, he said the success of the move would depend on what Mr Modi and Arun Jaitley, the finance minister, do next....
...Businesses operating in India should be ready for “teething problems” when the country introduces a landmark tax reform this year, Arun Jaitley, finance minister, said on Monday....
...“I categorically state that the government has no plans to impose any tax on agricultural income,” said Arun Jaitley, finance minister....
...By 2022, explained the finance minister Arun Jaitley, India would build 175 gigawatts of new renewable power, of which 100 gigawatts would come from solar....
...“There are too many rates right now,” says Arvind Subramanian, the government’s chief economic adviser....
...India will stick to its fiscal deficit targets and not be swayed by advice to loosen the reins to boost the economy, Arun Jaitley, Indian finance minister, said on Monday....
...Finance minister Arun Jaitley is vacillating after receiving conflicting advice from his chief economic adviser, Arvind Subramanian, and Raghuram Rajan, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India....
...Arun Jaitley should have been in a bullish mood this month as he gathered a dozen economists to chew over India’s buoyant prospects....
...Arun Jaitley, finance minister, has promised that a successor will be announced “shortly”....
...Arun Jaitley, finance minister, is due to present his annual budget on Monday, amid disagreements among policymakers over whether to abandon deficit reduction targets to give the economy a boost....
...Arun Jaitley, India’s finance minister, has unveiled an Rs19.8tn ($289bn) budget that aims to cut the central government deficit while spending heavily on rural infrastructure, but his detailed list of new...
...Government appreciates good work done by RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan and respects his decision: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) June 18, 2016 A decision on successor of...
...The document, prepared by chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian, says gross domestic product is expected to expand by 7-7.75 per cent in the coming year, compared with 7.6 per cent in the year ending...
...Arun Jaitley, India’s finance minister, tweeted at the weekend that the government would announce Mr Rajan’s successor “shortly”....
...Arun Jaitley, the finance minister, tweeted that the government “respects” Mr Rajan’s decision, and would tackle the question of his succession....
...Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has agreed in principle to exclude these goods from the GST if it means that a lower overall tax rate can be adopted....
...Arun Jaitley, the finance minister and also a lawyer, said the government had nothing to do with the court case. “Nobody in this country has immunity from law,” he said....
...Arvind Subramanian, chief economic adviser, told the Press Trust of India news agency this weekend that Mr Jaitley was considering asking Mr Shah to review unresolved disputes....
...more than 8 per cent this year — surpassing China’s likely expansion rate — and has a historic chance for double-digit growth in the future, the government said on the eve of the budget to be revealed by Arun...
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