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Nirmala Sitharaman spoke on the on-going efforts of Indian Government to counter tax avoidance & evasion, finance ministry tweeted.

Union Budget 2019: 'PPP to be unleashed to develop rail...

Finance Minister said as the world's third largest aviation market, time is ripe to enter aircraft financing and leasing...

5 July 2019 12:12 PM IST

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

Union Budget 2019: Parliament echoes with urdu couplet, quote from...

Breaking the tradition of carrying briefcase to the Parliament for presenting Budget, she posed outside the House with...

5 July 2019 12:01 PM IST

Supreme Court of India (Photo: PTI)

12 accused convicted by SC for killing ex-Gujarat home minister Haren...

The trial court had awarded punishment ranging from five years to life imprisonment to the convicts.

5 July 2019 11:37 AM IST

Bihar Cabinet-led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has approved a proposal to punish sons and daughters who abandon their elderly parents with a jail term. (Photo: ANI)

Death toll rises to 140 in Encephalitis in Muzaffarpur

The state has been battling with the vector-borne disease since the last few weeks.

5 July 2019 11:15 AM IST

According to the election officials, three MLAs will not be able to cast their votes in the bypolls as they were disqualified for various reasons in the recent past. (Photo: ANI)

Bypolls for two Rajya Sabha seats underway in Gujarat; BJP fields EAM...

Bypolls for the two seats from Gujarat were necessitated after Union ministers Amit Shah and Smriti Irani resigned as...

5 July 2019 10:35 AM IST

Haryana School Education Board on Thursday made sit-ups compulsory during the morning assembly, contending that it will be a super yoga for the brain. (Photo: Twitter/ ANI)

Haryana govt makes sit-ups in schools compulsory, calls it super brain...

As a part of the State School Education Board pilot project, students will now have to do 14 sit-ups every day.

5 July 2019 9:10 AM IST

TMC MP Mimi Chakraborty and TMC leader Kalyan Bandyopadhyay were also spotted at the reception which was held ITC Royal Kolkata. (Photo: Twitter/ ANI)

Mamata, TMC leaders attend Nusrat Jahan-Nikhil Jain's wedding...

The event was a star-studded bash and had prominent personalities from the film industry, politics and business world in...

5 July 2019 8:56 AM IST

Referring to the DMK manifesto, Udhayanidhi claimed it has covered all the issues faced by the people,including NEET. (Image: File)

MK Stalin's son to head DMK Youth Wing Secretary

The DMK social media was flooded in no time with adulating messages from party leaders congratulating Udhayanidhi.

5 July 2019 3:13 AM IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi leaves Sewri court in Mumbai, Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

Will fight BJP, RSS with more vigour: Rahul Gandhi

The court granted them bail on a surety amount of Rs 15,000 each, along with permanent exemption from court appearance.

5 July 2019 3:09 AM IST

TMC MP Mahua Moitra said that the bill violates Supreme Court judgment and lacks transparency. (Photo: File)

Can't have cart before horse': Mahua Moitra attacks Aadhaar over...

This bill strikes at the very heart of the primacy of an individual, and privacy of an individual's data,' Moitra said.

4 July 2019 8:35 PM IST

Singhs predecessors, Nirmala Sitharam and Manohar Parrikar, also visited the glacier to understand the challenges Indian soldiers face. (Photo :Rajnath Singh | Twitter)

Defence Minister clears new pension for kin of re-employed servicemen

This is the first time that such a pension system has been cleared.

4 July 2019 8:29 PM IST

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley during the release of book Mann ki Baat - A Social Revolution on Radio in New Delhi on Saturday. (Photo: ANI)

Economic Survey: 'India leaps into era of high economic policy...

Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman earlier today tabled the Economic Survey 2018-19 in...

4 July 2019 8:25 PM IST