India is concerned about the political turmoil in Libya and Syria as unstable situations in there are posing serious problems for the Indian economy, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Su

Telephone calls, restaurant bills and other activities will cost more with the budgetary proposal of raising service tax rate to 12 per cent coming into effect from Sunday.

In order to garner an add

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday defended the move to amend the Income Tax Act with retrospective effect following which UK's Vodafone may have to pay Rs 11,000 crore as tax for a buyo

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said that inflationary expectations would be in the six to seven per cent range.

"My inflationary expectations will be between six and seven per cent an

Setting at rest the uncertainty about overseas investments, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said that persons investing in stock markets through participatory notes (P-Notes) will not h

The Finance Ministry and the Reserve Bank of India are likely to finalise the market borrowing programme for the first half of the next financial year on March 27.

"The meeting for deciding the borr

The government on Saturday downplayed the draft CAG report on coal block allocations with Finance Minister Pranab Mukerjee stating that 90 per cent of the issues raised by the auditor at initial stage

Amid concerns over rising crude oil prices, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said the government would take and implement ‘some difficult decisions’ in the coming months.

"In meeting the

"Do not start consuming sleeping pills," this was the advice of former Finance Minister Jaswant Singh to the present incumbent in the Finance Ministry on the issue fiscal deficit.

Making a brief rem

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde on Monday met Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and discussed the global economic situation, including the eurozone crisis.

"We particul