Finance Minister
- India
Pak govt to consult coalition partners on importing goods from India: Pak Minister
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said on Wednesday the government will consider importing goods from India after consulting its coalition partners and key stakeholders, as the cash-strapped nation seeks to stablise…
- Middle East
Iraq’s finance minister resigns over political crisis
Baghdad: Iraq’s finance minister resigned on Tuesday, two government officials said, over the country’s worst political crisis in years involving an influential Shiite cleric and his Iran-aligned rivals. The officials who spoke on…
- India
Fundamental changes in governance under PM Modi: Nirmala Sitharaman
Chennai: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said the ruling NDA has brought in a fundamental change in governance under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, through its developmental schemes. Speaking…
- India
Unbranded pre-packed and labelled food items to cost more
New Delhi: Single packages of unbranded pre-packed and labelled food items like cereals, pulses and flour weighing in excess of 25 kg are exempt from the 5% GST levy. The Central Board of…
- Photos
G20 Finance Ministers Meeting
Bali: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks during the Sustainable Finance for Climate Transition Roundtable at the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting, in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, Thursday, July 14,…
- Politics
‘Has Chidambaram forgotten his record as failed finance minister?’
New Delhi: Slamming Congress leader P. Chidambaram for his remarks on Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the BJP on Thursday asked if the former Union minister has forgotten his own record as a…
- India
Oppo slapped Rs 4,389 cr notice, says it will contest charges
New Delhi: Chinese phone maker Oppo’s India unit has been slapped with a notice for alleged Rs 4,389 crore import duty evasion, the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday. A show-cause notice (SCN) has…
- World
Lankan crisis: Finance Minister tries to flee country, stopped at airport
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa, who is the youngest brother of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, was stopped from boarding a flight to Dubai on Monday evening, local media reported. Basil…
- World
UK PM names new Health Secretary, Finance Minister after Javid, Sunak resign
London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday named new UK Health Secretary and Finance Minister shortly after Health Secretary Sajid Javid and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak tendered their resignation,…
- India
Petrol, diesel to get cheaper, Centre announces subsidy on gas
Union Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on May 21 announced a sharp cut in central excise duty on fuel prices amid rising inflation. In a series of tweets, the union minister claimed that…
- World
Former Afghan finance minister now drives Uber in Washington
Washington: Khalid Payenda, who was once Afghanistan’s finance minister, now makes a living in Washington as an Uber driver. A week before the Taliban seized Kabul, Payenda had resigned from his position…
- Telangana
Centre should fill up 15 lakh vacant posts, says Harish Rao
Hyderabad: Describing the decision to fill up 80,000 posts as ‘historic’, Finance minister T Harish Rao demanded that the Centre should do its job and fill up 15 lakhs vacant posts in…
- India
Chidambaram calls Centre no data available government
New Delhi: This is a no data available government’ said former finance minister P Chidambaram in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday over the ruling dispensation’s failure to have the record on oxygen shortage…
- Telangana
Union Budget: All key demands of Telangana ignored
Hyderabad: The Union Budget 2022-23 came as a big shock for Telangana as all its demands for additional funds and new projects were ignored. The budget speech of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman…
- India
Crypto not currencies as they are not issued by the central bank: Nirmala Sitharaman
New Delhi: Clarifying the Centre’s stance on crypto-currencies, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said the government does not recognise such digital financial assets as they are not issued by the central…
