While the job scenario in the country is not exactly positive, Rahul seems to have exaggerated the numbers in his speech.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi's speech during the no-confidence motion in parliament touched upon issues such as demonetisation, Doklam, unemployment, Rafale deal among others. The BJP found his speech 'low on substance and high on entertainment'. Watch BusinessToday.In video to know how PM Modi reacted to the speech and the hug that came later.

If you type the word 'idiot' on web search engine Google, it will direct you to at least five-six news stories along with the pictures of US President Donald Trump.

The video starts with PM Modi, while explaining about black money stashed in foreign banks, saying \"every citizen of India would get Rs 15-20 lakh without doing anything\".

Just before finishing his sharp attack and subsequently hugging the PM, Gandhi said, \"You might have anger for me. You might call me names, call me Pappu, but I will remove this feeling from you.

During the day, Congress President Rahul Gandhi attacked the Prime Minister on lack of jobs and PM Modi's pre-poll promise of depositing Rs 15 lakh in bank accounts of poor.

The CBI was conducting probe as to how Chidambaram, who was the finance minister in 2006, granted Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) approval to a foreign firm when only Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) was empowered to do it.

Rajasthan BJP chief Madanlal Saini also says that apart from 3 lakh government jobs, people have got employment opportunities in road contraction projects, industrial hubs, through skills development, entrepreneurship, etc. If one does the total, the number of jobs comes out to be over 15 lakh, he adds.

PM Modi was in Azamgarh to lay the foundation stone for the 340-km Purvanchal Expressway which will connect Lucknow with Ghazipur at a cost of Rs 23,000 crore. Modi then left for Varanasi where he inaugurated a slew of development projects.

Although the names of several economists, including Rathin Roy, Sanjeev Sanyal, Nagesh Kumar, and Surjit Bhalla, are doing the rounds, none of them has thrown hat in the ring yet.

The GST Council had formed a GoM (Group of Ministers) in May to look into the into the food ministry's proposal for the creation of a corpus of Rs 6,700 crore through a levy of up to Rs 3 per kg on sugar over the existing GST of 5 per cent on the good.

As the backlash on Twitter showed no signs of subsiding, the Ministry of HRD issued a statement clarifying how Jio Institute came to be picked. It clarified that Jio Institute was chosen under the greenfield category.

The current dispensation has been diverting attention from the core issues despite evident widespread backwardness in India, Sen said.

While the farmers were expecting the government to be more generous, the announced hike is just enough to meet an increase in input costs from last year.

State Congress leadership has alleged that state BJP leaders could be involved converting \"black money into white\" through hawala network using the non-regulated digital currencies like bitcoin.

Additional Chief Secretary, Information, Awanish Awasthi said that the loan would be repaid in 48 installments with three years moratorium.

The BJP-led NDA Government has pulled a rabbit out of their hat by announcing a slew of initiatives aimed at avoiding the bankruptcy proceedings for banks as well as defaulting promoters.

\"The state of the economy was much worse than expected. Things were terrible. Even the budget figures were suspicious,\" Prime Minister Narendra Modi said.

Thousands of GST officials from CGST office have decided to stay away from the one year GST celebration across the country. It indicates though the BJP government is trying to make it a bigger celebration event, everything is not okay within the taxmen fraternity who alleges pressure from seniors to meet the targets.

In 2016, funds stashed by Indians in Swiss banks had fallen by 45 per cent to Rs 4,500 crore. The drop was the highest since the Swiss banks shed their secrecy clauses that shielded depositors in 1987. The latest data shows that the money parked directly with the banks is now pegged at Rs 6,891 crore and another Rs 112 crore through fiduciaries.