Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday expressed hope that indirect tax collection target of Rs 3.92 lakh crore for the current fiscal will be met despite the economic slowdown.

"I am conf

Attributing economic slowdown to Reserve Bank's tight money policy and global financial problems, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said the country needs to target a double-digit growth ra

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will skip the meeting of G-20 Ministers and governors of central banks in Mexico between February 24-26 as he is pre-occupied with his next Budget, sources said.

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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said it is the subsidy leakage that makes him lose his ‘sleep’, and not the quantum of subsidy itself.

"I lose my sleep not when I look at the volume of qu

Ahead of the budget, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday met financial sector regulators including RBI Governor D. Subbarao and Sebi chairman U.K. Sinha, to seek their inputs for formulati

In order to effectively deal with food inflation, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday asked the states to encourage organised sector in supply management pending a decision on allowing f

India's headline inflation is still unacceptably high but will hopefully moderate, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Tuesday.

India's wholesale price index (WPI) rose a slower-than-expected 6

Worried over the impact of rising expenditure on the fiscal deficit, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said he is 'losing sleep' over skyrocketing subsidy bill which could exceed budget e

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee says though food inflation has moderated the country is not out of the ‘woods totally’, asserting inflationary pressures must be brought down to a tolerable and accep

Calling it a relief, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday welcomed a CBI special court's ruling dismissing a plea to make Home Minister P. Chidambaram an accused in the 2G spectrum allocation