Arun Jaitley To Chidambaram

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday targeted Congress leader P Chidambaram over his remarks that in order to bring a change in Pakistan's behaviour, India must also change its behaviour and said Congress needs to explain its remarks to the people.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday tried to corner Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on the AFSPA issue, asking why he was mum on the withdrawal of the controversial Act from Tripura, Meghalaya and parts of Arunachal Pradesh.

Days after the CBI named the former chief executive of ICICI Bank and others in a loan case, prompting Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to drop subtle hints against the agency's "adventurism and megalomania", former finance minister P Chidambaram today added heft to Mr Jaitley's reading of the situation - but with a slight.

Aadhaar empowers marginalised sections of the society and gives them identity, which outweighs the harm, Supreme Court said, pronouncing the national identity card "constitutionally valid" in response to petitions raising violation of privacy. "One can't throw the baby out with the bathwater," said the judges, which asserted that private parties ca...

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday said the Narendra Modi government's five measures to stop further depreciation of the rupee and widening of the current account deficit (CAD) were "half-hearted and too late".

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today slammed his predecessor P Chidambaram for being a know-all living under false illusion, and said the economy was in the hands of a "terrible doctor" under 10-year rule of UPA which pushed it to being in the fragile five economies in the world.

Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today said he was "worried" about the "fiscal arithmetic" of the Union budget and wondered how the government was planning to meet its promises. In the last full budget before next year's general election, the focus has been on agriculture and rural sectors. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has announced a new h...

Former Union Finance Minister of the Congress P Chidambaram today said a "shower of changes" is expected from the GST Council meeting in Guwahati and the "panic-stricken" Modi government has no option but to change the new tax rates. The high-powered committee headed by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is meeting in the Assam's capital to discus...

Congress leader P Chidambaram launched a scathing attack on the Centre and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on the anniversary of the notes ban decision today, asking whether it was "ethical" to heap misery on millions of people.

A day after senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha's takedown of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's handling of the economy, his son and union minister Jayant Sinha has defended the government's economic policies, stating it is undertaking structural reforms that are "necessary to create a 'New India' and provide good jobs for our billion-strong workforce."

P Chidambaram is in agreement to Yashwant Sinha about what he said on the economy. Writing in the Indian Express today, Yashwant Sinha, the country's former finance minister, indicted Arun Jaitley for making a "mess" of the economy, which, he says, owes it ruin partly to the hurried introduction of the national sales tax, the GST, and Prime Ministe...

A day after the Chennai home of P Chidambaram was raided in an inquiry to determine if foreign investment proposals were illicitly cleared by him while he was Finance Minister, the cabinet met today to decide whether to dissolve the Foreign Investment Proposal Board or FIPB.

An "alliance of subversion" was responsible for violence on university campuses, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Saturday, drawing a prompt rebuttal from the Congress which questioned the former student leader's track record in return.

Corruption and scams peaked during the Congress' rule at the centre and the party did not take a single step against black money in those 10 years, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today, hitting back at his predecessor P Chidambaram, who this morning described the notes ban as "the biggest scam of the year".

Former Finance Minister was replying to a question at the Delhi Literature Festival on what would he have done had he been in Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's place.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday targeted Congress leader P Chidambaram over his remarks that in order to bring a change in Pakistan's behaviour, India must also change its behaviour and said Congress needs to explain its remarks to the people.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday tried to corner Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on the AFSPA issue, asking why he was mum on the withdrawal of the controversial Act from Tripura, Meghalaya and parts of Arunachal Pradesh.

Days after the CBI named the former chief executive of ICICI Bank and others in a loan case, prompting Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to drop subtle hints against the agency's "adventurism and megalomania", former finance minister P Chidambaram today added heft to Mr Jaitley's reading of the situation - but with a slight.

Aadhaar empowers marginalised sections of the society and gives them identity, which outweighs the harm, Supreme Court said, pronouncing the national identity card "constitutionally valid" in response to petitions raising violation of privacy. "One can't throw the baby out with the bathwater," said the judges, which asserted that private parties ca...

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday said the Narendra Modi government's five measures to stop further depreciation of the rupee and widening of the current account deficit (CAD) were "half-hearted and too late".

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today slammed his predecessor P Chidambaram for being a know-all living under false illusion, and said the economy was in the hands of a "terrible doctor" under 10-year rule of UPA which pushed it to being in the fragile five economies in the world.

Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today said he was "worried" about the "fiscal arithmetic" of the Union budget and wondered how the government was planning to meet its promises. In the last full budget before next year's general election, the focus has been on agriculture and rural sectors. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has announced a new h...

Former Union Finance Minister of the Congress P Chidambaram today said a "shower of changes" is expected from the GST Council meeting in Guwahati and the "panic-stricken" Modi government has no option but to change the new tax rates. The high-powered committee headed by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is meeting in the Assam's capital to discus...

Congress leader P Chidambaram launched a scathing attack on the Centre and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on the anniversary of the notes ban decision today, asking whether it was "ethical" to heap misery on millions of people.

A day after senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha's takedown of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's handling of the economy, his son and union minister Jayant Sinha has defended the government's economic policies, stating it is undertaking structural reforms that are "necessary to create a 'New India' and provide good jobs for our billion-strong workforce."

P Chidambaram is in agreement to Yashwant Sinha about what he said on the economy. Writing in the Indian Express today, Yashwant Sinha, the country's former finance minister, indicted Arun Jaitley for making a "mess" of the economy, which, he says, owes it ruin partly to the hurried introduction of the national sales tax, the GST, and Prime Ministe...

A day after the Chennai home of P Chidambaram was raided in an inquiry to determine if foreign investment proposals were illicitly cleared by him while he was Finance Minister, the cabinet met today to decide whether to dissolve the Foreign Investment Proposal Board or FIPB.

An "alliance of subversion" was responsible for violence on university campuses, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Saturday, drawing a prompt rebuttal from the Congress which questioned the former student leader's track record in return.

Corruption and scams peaked during the Congress' rule at the centre and the party did not take a single step against black money in those 10 years, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today, hitting back at his predecessor P Chidambaram, who this morning described the notes ban as "the biggest scam of the year".

Former Finance Minister was replying to a question at the Delhi Literature Festival on what would he have done had he been in Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's place.