The BJP-led NDA government probably had the right intention when they knocked on the doors of Ravi Venkatesan, former chairman of Microsoft India and P S Jayakumar, an ex-citibanker turned entrepreneur, for helping them in conducting an experiment of sorts with Bank of Baroda.

Fadnavis added that if the opposition is so concerned about the high fuel prices, it should announce in the states ruled by the Congress or their alliance partners that there would be no tax on petrol and diesel.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday called a couple of his former NDA colleagues 'career nationalists' who would be speaking a different language if they were in the government.

Accusing the Congress of spearheading a \"vilification campaign\" at the behest of its rivals, Reliance Defence has warned these leaders from making unverified statements against the company.

As a member of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was already politically active by the age of 16. He participated in the Quit India Movement in 1942 and was arrested with his brother for 23 days.

BJP was seen as a party which opposed liberalisation or reforms. However, in his tenure as the prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee emerged as more of a reformist.

One and a half decade after Vajpayee demitted office, he is today remembered as a leader who took forward India's telecom revolution, laid the foundation for massive infrastructure projects - road, rail and air, in a size and scale that matched the Nehruvian-era.

Without the knowledge of the Ministry of Defence, the Central Board of Excise and Customs had published details, including unit prices, of all defence products like bolts, missiles, and nuclear reactor parts India imported between 2004 and 2016, on its website.

The state Cabinet gave its nod to the Mukhyamantri Yuva Nestam Scheme, which promises unemployment allowances to unemployed degree or diploma holders between the age of 22 years and 35 years.

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 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.

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.

But why are so many parties - which have been bitter opponents for much of their lives, and have very different agendas - coming together to oppose the BJP?

After the prices of petrol and diesel hit an all-time high, the government is scrambling to contain the rising prices. Anger is running high among people across the country and opposition parties also took the NDA-led government to task on the issue. The government also hiked excise duties on fuels a dozen times in the past few years. Watch BusinessToday.In's video to find out how the consumers have reacted to the hike across the country.

Recent economic data shows that the Indian economy has put the disruptions caused by the demonetisation of specified banknotes in November 2016 and the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax in July 2017 firmly behind it.