Jaitley is suffering from a kidney ailment and has not been attending office since Monday
Given Jaitley's physical absence from finance ministry, Pon Radhakrishnan and Shiv Pratap Shukla will run the show
A medical report is due on Friday, one of the Finance Ministry officials said
Said fiscal situation would be comfortable next financial year and there were no concerns about slippages from deficit targets
The court has fixed the matter for February 12 before Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw for Jaitley's further cross- examination
Opposition parties accused Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu of "muzzling" their voice
He said when it comes to matters of procurement, awarding contracts, and even public-private contracts, there has to be procedural fairness that the governments have to follow
CriSidEx will have two indices, one for the survey quarter and another for the next quarter once a trend emerges after few rounds of the survey
If the situation demands, FM Jaitley won't hesitate to revise the fiscal consolidation road map yet again
Jaitley takes on UPA for widening fiscal deficit
Jaitley said the Aadhaar Act, which gave legal backing to the programme in 2016, had substantial provisions to ensure privacy
Jaitley opined that while in 1991, economic reforms had been taken out of compulsion, structural change in 2017 has been done out of conviction
In the next two decades, hopefully, India will be able to say that it has developed infrastructure, which is as good as anywhere in the world, Jaitley said.
Jaitley said the government, through its interlocutor, intended to engage all those interested in talks to resolve the Kashmir issue.
His comment came as Congress chief Sonia Gandhi accused PM Modi of delaying the Winter Session of Parliament on 'flimsy grounds'
Bottoming out of the economy is complete and now it should start moving upwards and the global economy is also moving up, says Jaitley
Jaitley will also visit the Singapore Expo and deliver the keynote address at the Singapore Fintech Festival
'Third engine' of private investment must be fired up to propel growth and create jobs
"You can't have an economy where the size of the shadow economy is much bigger than the apparent economy itself," Jaitley said.
"Those habitual of 2G and coal block scams, will have objections to legitimate tax," Jaitley said in response to a question on Rahul Gandhi's jibe at GST.