Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday asked the states doling out freebies to check the fiscal strength of the state government and make budgetary provision accordingly. Days after th...

Food inflation in July moderated to 6.75 per cent against 7.75 per cent in June. But cereals inflation crossed 6 per cent after a gap of 23 months. Lower buffer stocks of wheat have been translating i...

Attacking the BJP and the Congress, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said "Parivarwad and Dostwad" models will destroy the country and alleged the BJP-led Centre would not have...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday hit out at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for giving a "perverse twist" to the debate on freebies, saying the AAP leader putting educati...

Politics, the cynic says, is the high art of evasion. Admittedly, some regimes and their leaders are more skilled in dodging issues of public interest than others. The Union finance minister’s r...

At the NSE, the broader NSE Nifty finished at 17345.45, up 5.40 points or 0.03 per cent. Bond prices also rallied with yields on the benchmark 10-year paper dropping to 7.19 per cent against the prev...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said GST Council has not imposed any new levy on essential items consumed by the poor, though such products were taxed in one form or the other by almost...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said GST Council has not imposed any new levy on essential items consumed by the poor, though such products were taxed in one form or the other by almost...

Gandhi said inflation and the "Gabbar Singh Tax" is a direct attack on the income of the common person. "Today's reality is that the common person is struggling not just for his dr...

Amid concerns over the decline in the value of the rupee against the US dollar, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday asserted there is no collapse of the unit and it is actually finding its ...