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With this, Bandhan became the first micro finance company in the country to start operations as a full-fledged commercial bank.

A visibly upset finance minister Arun Jaitley, who addressed the media after the Monsoon session ended in a washout on Thursday, claimed GST would have benefited to the country.

Modi announced the launch of a campaign in which NDA MPs would visit the constituencies of the Congress and Left MPs to “expose” what they had done and said during the session.

Rahul during his speech was visibly angry against Swaraj for alleging that his family had helped Bofors accused Ottavio Quattrocchi and Bhopal gas leak accused Warren Anderson flee from India.

Acrimony between the BJP and Congress marked the monsoon session of parliament which concluded on Thursday and had significant legislation on its agenda, including the GST bill. “This session has educated public opinion that India’s economic interests are being held...

Had the Congress not agreed, the government would have sprung a debate on the IPL, which the rest of the Opposition would have accepted. All leaders use Parliamentary debates to score a political point over rivals. Though it is not the first time that Rahul Gandhi has been caught...

With the entire Monsoon Session of Parliament going waste due to continued protests by the opposition parties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday compared the the behaviour of the Congress with that during the emergency days.

With four days left to go for the monsoon session, the Congress continued to paralyse both houses of parliament, forcing finance minister Arun Jaitley on 10 August to go hammer and tongs against the situation prevailing in the Rajya Sabha.

When Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was introducing the GST Bill yesterday, he was rebuked by Congress parliamentarians who shouted “nahi chalegi”, meaning “this won’t do” in Hindi.

Later, soon after the bill was moved, the Congress started its protest, demanding the resignation of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

This one-per cent additional levy, however, is rendered unnecessary after the Cabinet’s approval last month of the Rajya Sabha Select Committee’s recommendation requiring the Centre to commit itself to compensating all losses to the States owing to the transition to...

Even AIADMK, which had given a dissent note to the select committee of Rajya Sabha on the bill, seems to have been won over after a meeting between Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalitha and prime minister Narendra Modi in Chennai last week.

He didn’t forget to mention the stalemate that continues in the parliament and appealed to all the parties for supporting the GST bill so that it can be passed in order to subsume taxes and rationalize the tax system.

Prospect of an immediate end to the parliamentary logjam appeared bleak on Saturday with both the government and the Congress sticking to their guns ahead of an all-party meeting on Monday.

Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sharma said Parliament is not functioning because of his “arrogance and obduracy” as he has refused to end his “maun vrat” (vow of silence) on the issue.