Arun Jaitley Food Prices

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  Eating Out Cheaper After GST Cut? Restaurateurs Have A Plan: 10 Points

  Eating out has become cheaper after the GST Council Meeting led by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley revised the rates of the new national tax yesterday. The GST rate charged by restaurants has been cut to a uniform 5 per cent now -- from the earlier 12 per cent or 18 per cent, depending on whether you ate at an air-conditioned place or a restaurant wi...

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  PM Narendra Modi, Arun Jaitley Meet Top Ministers On Inflation: 10 Updates

  Finance Minister Arun Jaitley held a high level meeting today on rising prices of food, which have driven up wholesale inflation to its highest in 19 months. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was also present at the meeting.

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  Price Rise Situation Under Control: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley

  Attributing rise in prices of certain food items to seasonal factors, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said inflation overall is moderating and the price situation is under control.

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  Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Allays Fear of Bad Monsoon

  Union finance minister Arun Jaitley today said even if the monsoon turns out to be a little deficient as per prediction, it will not affect food production.

• Centre Not Doing Enough to Contain Price Rise, Allege Opposition-Ruled States

  As the Centre patted itself on the back for what it called timely action to contain prices for essential food items such as pulses, onions and potatoes, Opposition-ruled states who attended a meeting in the capital were clearly not impressed. They accused the BJP-led NDA government of not doing enough to help the common man.

• Don't Panic, No Shortages of Food Items: Finance Minister After Price Rise Meet

  The NDA government, which has been confronted with the spectre of spiralling prices of food items soon after its advent to power at the Centre, today sought to allay fears of any shortages, and said there were enough stocks to deal with any situation.

• 'Hoarders Taking Advantage of Poor Monsoon Forecast', says Finance Minister Arun Jaitley

  The NDA government, which has been confronted with the spectre of spiralling prices of food items soon after its advent to power at the Centre, today once again sought the cooperation of the states in battling a problem which, it said, had been an annual fixture at this time of the year.

• Highlights: Hoarders Taking Advantage of Poor Monsoon, Says Finance Minister Arun Jaitley

  Finance Minister Arun Jaitley briefed the media today today after the Centre's meeting with all state food ministers to discuss strategies to jointly combat the crisis.

• Narendra Modi Government Takes Steps To Control Inflation

  The new government led by Narendra Modi on Tuesday imposed export restrictions on certain farm commodities and ordered a crackdown on hoarding to control rising food prices, a day after wholesale price inflation hit a five-month high.

• Peace clause in World Trade Organisation talks not in India's interest: Arun Jaitley

  Asking government not to sign the peace clause negotiated at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva by G-33 "as it is not in India's interest", BJP said the country should persist with its demand for a 'Food Security Box' to protect price support to farmers and food subsidy to Indians.