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Friday, August 1, 2025
TopicArun Jaitley

Topic: Arun Jaitley

Supreme Court is right. Delhi govt, L-G and central govt must cooperate, not confront

The judgment indicates that L-G is a watchdog to protect national concerns in regard to governance of NCT.

Will the real finance minister of India please stand up?

For the second time in 3 days, Arun Jaitley will address an event by video conference and Piyush Goyal will be present in person and also speak.

As per RSS thesaurus, Jaitley’s Hitler comparison is a great compliment to Indira Gandhi

There are innumerable references to the greatness of Hitler and Mussolini in the writings and speeches of several RSS ideologues.

On first anniversary of GST, BJP lauds tax regime as Congress cites job losses

Finance minister Arun Jaitley makes first public appearance since kidney surgery to address press meet on tax regime via video link.

As GST turns one, there’s good news and still some bad news

Ahead of GST’s anniversary, policymakers say tax collections have risen in the past year and that teething issues have been addressed.

Modi believed Vajpayee’s wooing of Muslims in 2004 was a fruitless exercise

Saba Naqvi's book Shades of Saffron: From Vajpayee To Modi traces the rise and fall of the BJP party and the differences between the two leaders.

Yes, Indira’s Emergency was a shame, Mr Jaitley, but invoking Adolf Hitler is facetious

A parallel between the genocide under Hitler and the Emergency diminishes the suffering experienced by victims of World War II.

Everyone in the Narendra Modi government speaks, just not about their own ministries

Finance minister Jaitley writes on legal affairs, law minister Prasad speaks on defence matters, and defence minister Sitharaman holds forth on finance affairs.

Illustrating the Emergency: The darkest time-line in modern Indian history

Imposed by Indira Gandhi’s government, the Emergency lasted for 21 months, one of the darkest periods in Indian history.

Congress heavyweights take summer break, head for cooler climes

Pre-Truth – snappy, witty and significant snippets from the world of politics and government.

On Camera

Trump tariff forces India to shed illusion. Stop conflating status with power

India’s future lies in pragmatism. Protectionism must be phased out gradually, not in disruptive shocks.

BJP MPs go full throttle against Trump even as govt hails enduring India-US ties amid tariff tension

New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.