Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections slated for early next year and a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited his Lok Sabha constituency, Varanasi, the Expenditure Finance Committee
Defending the Budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Monday that it addresses the “harsh reality” of distress in rural India and the farm sector beleaguered by successive poor monsoons.
It was a government in retreat on Wednesday, as the Centre agreed to consider a demand from the States that they be allowed the flexibility to frame their own laws for land acquisitions or continue
Leading the Indian contingent at the annual World Economic Forum at Davos with Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Power and Coal Minister Piyush Goyal will discuss new business models that are sc