Arun Jaitley

ONI Bureau:  With an aim to simplify the indirect tax regime, the Goods & Services Tax (GST) Council on Saturday cut rates of 33 items from 18% to 12% and 5% respectively. While, 7 items brought down to 18% from 28% slab, only 34…

ONI Bureau:   Good Evening Readers! Here are the Evening News Bulletin on India and World by Odisha News Insight. —  A National Council meeting of BJP will be held in Delhi on 11-12 January 2019, all the party leaders and office bearers…

ONI Bureau:  Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday announced a Rs 2.50 cut in price of diesel and petrol per litre in India. The Union Government writes to all State Governments that as the Centre is cutting Rs 2.50 on both petrol…

ONI Bureau:  An ordinance seeking to replace the existing body running the Medical Council of India with a government and court-appointed committee has been signed by President Ram Nath Kovind, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on…

ONI Bureau:  The AAP on Thursday demanded Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's resignation and said he should write a blog clarifying whether he was aware of fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya's plans to leave India. "Since he (Arun Jaitley)…

President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday reassigned the Finance and Corporate Affairs portfolios to Union Minister Arun Jaitley, a Rashtrapati Bhavan statement said. "The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has directed to…

In a veiled attack, Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday warned the opposition parties against using Maoist forces in their anti-NDA campaign and said the ultras are not just against the government but the Constitution itself.…

Union Minister Arun Jaitley returned home on Monday after being discharged from the AIIMS where he underwent a successful kidney transplant surgery last month. "Delighted to be back at home. My gratitude to the doctors, nursing officers…

In a reshuffle of portfolios effected on Monday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Smriti Irani was moved out of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry and Rajyavardhan Rathore, who had been a Minister of State in the Ministry since…

The Government will take complete ownership of the GST Network (GSTN) by acquiring the 51 per cent equity of Rs 5.1 crore held by non-government institutions, the GST Council decided on Friday. The 51 per cent equity will be acquired…