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Union Minister Arun Jaitley today said that the Narendra Modi government's budgetary move to exempt those with an annual income under Rs 5 lakh from the tax net will strengthen the country's middle class, enhancing their purchasing power to the advantage of the national economy.

George Fernandes was a political colossus who never compromised on his anti-Congress moorings, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in his tribute on Facebook to the former defence minister, who died yesterday at 88 of a long illness.

Taking Congress head on over the Sohrabuddin case, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today that the appropriate question for party president Rahul Gandhi to ask would be, who killed the investigation in this case.

In a searing takedown of the Congress and the Nehru-Gandhi family, Union Minister Arun Jaitley said in a Facebook post today that the BJP would "gladly accept" the challenge if the Congress wanted 2019 to be between Prime Minister Narendra Modi - the son of lesser known parents - and someone "known only for his parentage rather than capacity, merit...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley posted a strong defence of demonetisation today as opposition parties seized the second anniversary of the move to rip into the government and even demand an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In a Facebook post, the minister described PM Modi's overnight ban on higher currency notes on November 8, 2016, as a "...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has taken a swipe at the opposition over its math on runaway fuel price rise. In a post on Facebook, Mr Jaitley linked the weakening rupee and widening current account deficit or CAD to high international price of crude oil. "The challenges thrown up by the increase in the international price of crude oil cannot be res...

After Rahul Gandhi was called a "clown prince" and accused of spreading lies about the Rafale deal by Arun Jaitley in a stinging Facebook post, Congress retaliated by referring to him as a "court jester" who is "desperate to stay relevant".

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley derided Rahul Gandhi as "Clown Prince" in a stinging Facebook post today, and accused him of "lying" about the government waiving loans worth Rs 2.5 lakh crore to 15 industrialists.

In the back-and-forth over the Rafale jet deal, Rahul Gandhi today posted a tart reminder to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley with six hours left in his 24-hour deadline to set up an all-party lawmakers' panel. Rahul Gandhi had announced the 24-hour challenge in response to Arun Jaitley's 15 questions for the Congress in a Facebook post accusing Rahul...

Hours after Arun Jaitley put up 15 questions for the Congress in a Facebook post accusing Rahul Gandhi of "peddling untruth" on the Rafale fighter jet deal, the Congress president had a dare of his own for the Finance Minister. Calling the fighter jet deal a "great Rafale robbery", Rahul Gandhi asked Mr Jaitley for a Joint Parliamentary Committee o...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has posted a set of 15 questions to the Congress in his latest post on Facebook, asking the party led by Rahul Gandhi to stop their "false campaign based on untruth" against the Dassault Aviation's Rafale fighter jet deal with France.

Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who was hospitalised at Delhi's AIIMS hospital for nine weeks, died yesterday. He was 93. In a moving tribute, Finance Minister and senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley, called him "a product of parliamentary democracy" who valued consensus. In a Facebook blog, Mr Jaitley penned down a heartfelt note for the 3 ...

Hitting back at Union minister Arun Jaitley who accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of playing with India's sovereignty over the issue of Assam's National Register of Citizens, her party Trinamool Congress said citizenship is not a gift which can be handed over or taken back.

The Congress today hit back at Arun Jaitley for his Facebook post criticising the party, saying the senior BJP leader should write social media posts on who is India's finance minister and on the economic woes that "Modinomics has heaped upon India".

The Congress today said the resignation of Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian has not come as a surprise as all 'financial experts' in Modi government are fed up of its 'colossal economic mismanagement'' and are stepping down.

Union Minister Arun Jaitley today said that the Narendra Modi government's budgetary move to exempt those with an annual income under Rs 5 lakh from the tax net will strengthen the country's middle class, enhancing their purchasing power to the advantage of the national economy.

George Fernandes was a political colossus who never compromised on his anti-Congress moorings, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in his tribute on Facebook to the former defence minister, who died yesterday at 88 of a long illness.

Taking Congress head on over the Sohrabuddin case, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today that the appropriate question for party president Rahul Gandhi to ask would be, who killed the investigation in this case.

In a searing takedown of the Congress and the Nehru-Gandhi family, Union Minister Arun Jaitley said in a Facebook post today that the BJP would "gladly accept" the challenge if the Congress wanted 2019 to be between Prime Minister Narendra Modi - the son of lesser known parents - and someone "known only for his parentage rather than capacity, merit...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley posted a strong defence of demonetisation today as opposition parties seized the second anniversary of the move to rip into the government and even demand an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In a Facebook post, the minister described PM Modi's overnight ban on higher currency notes on November 8, 2016, as a "...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has taken a swipe at the opposition over its math on runaway fuel price rise. In a post on Facebook, Mr Jaitley linked the weakening rupee and widening current account deficit or CAD to high international price of crude oil. "The challenges thrown up by the increase in the international price of crude oil cannot be res...

After Rahul Gandhi was called a "clown prince" and accused of spreading lies about the Rafale deal by Arun Jaitley in a stinging Facebook post, Congress retaliated by referring to him as a "court jester" who is "desperate to stay relevant".

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley derided Rahul Gandhi as "Clown Prince" in a stinging Facebook post today, and accused him of "lying" about the government waiving loans worth Rs 2.5 lakh crore to 15 industrialists.

In the back-and-forth over the Rafale jet deal, Rahul Gandhi today posted a tart reminder to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley with six hours left in his 24-hour deadline to set up an all-party lawmakers' panel. Rahul Gandhi had announced the 24-hour challenge in response to Arun Jaitley's 15 questions for the Congress in a Facebook post accusing Rahul...

Hours after Arun Jaitley put up 15 questions for the Congress in a Facebook post accusing Rahul Gandhi of "peddling untruth" on the Rafale fighter jet deal, the Congress president had a dare of his own for the Finance Minister. Calling the fighter jet deal a "great Rafale robbery", Rahul Gandhi asked Mr Jaitley for a Joint Parliamentary Committee o...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has posted a set of 15 questions to the Congress in his latest post on Facebook, asking the party led by Rahul Gandhi to stop their "false campaign based on untruth" against the Dassault Aviation's Rafale fighter jet deal with France.

Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who was hospitalised at Delhi's AIIMS hospital for nine weeks, died yesterday. He was 93. In a moving tribute, Finance Minister and senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley, called him "a product of parliamentary democracy" who valued consensus. In a Facebook blog, Mr Jaitley penned down a heartfelt note for the 3 ...

Hitting back at Union minister Arun Jaitley who accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of playing with India's sovereignty over the issue of Assam's National Register of Citizens, her party Trinamool Congress said citizenship is not a gift which can be handed over or taken back.

The Congress today hit back at Arun Jaitley for his Facebook post criticising the party, saying the senior BJP leader should write social media posts on who is India's finance minister and on the economic woes that "Modinomics has heaped upon India".

The Congress today said the resignation of Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian has not come as a surprise as all 'financial experts' in Modi government are fed up of its 'colossal economic mismanagement'' and are stepping down.