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Union finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday congratulated the National Investigation Agency for arresting 10 persons on Wednesday, who are allegedly linked to an ISIS-like module Harkat ul Harb-e-Islam and planned to carry out blasts in and around the national capital and attack politicians.

India is working towards a single national sales tax rate which could be a mid-point between 12 and 18 per cent, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Monday, in an effort to simplify the tax structure.

Pay Commission was set up by Government of India to give recommendations regarding changes in salary structure of its employees.

The recommendations benefit over 1 crore employees. This includes over 47 lakh central government employees and 53 lakh pensioners, of which 14 lakh employees and 18 lakh pensioners are from the defence forces.

PM Modi's launch of the Saubhagya Scheme is a push at one of his key election promises, with the deadline set seemingly in time for the next election.

Tax rates on certain kitchen items like pickles and mustard sauce, as well as movie tickets costing up to Rs 100 have been lowered as the Centre and states today reduced levies on 66 items.

Striding out confidently from the Parliament after the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill was finally passed, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said the passage of the bill in the House was history is in the making, adding that the country will witness transforming into a new system of indirect taxation.

Stating that an erroneous commercial decision of a public servant cannot always be seen as corrupt, Finance minister Arun Jaitley today said the amendments to the anti-graft law would protect the honest bureaucrats.

The Rs 2,000 banknotes were introduced along with new Rs 500 currency following the withdrawal of old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes from November 9, 2016.

"Different kinds of political reactions keep coming and some of them are even irresponsible,” Jaitley said. 

His comments at the event to mark second anniversary of myGov app came against the backdrop of DoPT issuing draft service rules proposing to allow bureaucrats to participate freely on social media websites.

Jaitley said that everyone should respect the clear demarcation among the judiciary, executive and legislature.

Last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a Rs 80,000-crore package for building a modern, progressive and prosperous Jammu and Kashmir.

With their huge bad loans and provisioning for the same affecting their profitability, India`s banks may not reduce their lending rates in the near future following the slashing of interest rates on the small savings schemes, say expert

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over Rohith Vemula suicide case, inflation, new job opportunities and JNU case.

Ankit Goel, posted as Judicial Magistrate and Civil Judge at Kulpahar in Mahoba in Uttar Pradesh, has been placed under suspension 

Jaitley said the right to freedom of speech and expression was "not absolute" and it "did not extend a licence to anyone to defame any other citizen having fundamental rights under the Constitution".

Amid a controversy over the ink attack on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the AAP today alleged Delhi Police was "leaking" details of his security, even as it claimed that it had not asked for any kind of security cover for the party supremo.

Exhorting the state BJP leadership to focus on twin issues ahead of the assembly polls, Jaitley said they would have to now pinpoint the issues - where the party has clarity of vision and also issues where unrest brewed ammong people at the grassroot level.

BJP MP Kirti Azad was suspended from the party after he unleashed a campaign to expose “corruption” in DDCA which was once headed by Arun Jaitley.