The Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) yesterday renamed Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium as ‘Arun Jaitley Stadium’ in memory of its former President and former Union Minister, who passed away on Aug. 24. The Feroz Shah Kotla ground’s name, however, will remain unchanged. During the function at Weightlifting Hall of the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here,…
Feroz Shah Kotla is now Arun Jaitley Stadium
August 28, 2019The Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) yesterday decided to rechristen the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium as Arun Jaitley Stadium in the memory of its former President who passed away on Aug.24. The renaming will take place on Sept.12 at a function where a stand at the Stadium will be named after India captain Virat…
Jaitley’s final journey
August 25, 2019To be cremated on Yamuna River banks New Delhi: Former Finance Minister and BJP veteran Arun Jaitley (66), who died yesterday, will be cremated with State honours this afternoon on the banks of Yamuna River. His body was kept at the BJP headquarters where party workers and leaders paid their last respects before cavalcade carrying…
Arun Jaitley passes away
August 24, 2019New Delhi: The month of August seems unlucky for BJP as it has lost two stalwarts within a span of three weeks. First it was former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj (Aug.6) and now it is Arun Jaitley who passed away this noon. The party lost its tallest and most loved leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee…
Phase-3 Lok Sabha polls
April 23, 2019PM Modi, L.K. Advani, Amit Shah, Arun Jaitley, Shashi Tharoor among VVIPs to cast vote 37.94% voting recorded till 2 pm across 117 seats in country; 36.74% in Karnataka New Delhi / Bengaluru: Polling began this morning for the third and largest phase of Lok Sabha election in 117 seats, including all constituencies in Gujarat…
Burden of being always right
November 6, 2018By T.J.S. George Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has the advantage of knowing that he is always right. Reserve Bank Governor Urjit Patel has taken his own time to learn that. Which is Patel’s problem. He started out as Jaitley’s handpicked man to replace Raghuram Rajan who simply had to go as Arvind Panagariya had to…
Jaitley resumes charge as FM
August 23, 2018New Delhi: Arun Jaitley arrived at the North Block office Ministry of Finance to resume charge as Finance Minster (FM) after President Ram Nath Kovind re-appointed him today. Jaitley was on a three-month hiatus after he underwent a renal transplant.
When the best among us falter
July 3, 2018By T.J.S. George Arun Jaitley and Piyush Goyal are the two most qualified — shall we say civilised — men in the Narendra Modi Cabinet. Both have distinguished educational background and are recognised as well-informed intellectuals. Their public careers have been impeccable. They fit naturally into refined social circles and are respected for that. Under…
Jaitley undergoes kidney transplant at AIIMs
May 14, 2018New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is currently undergoing kidney transplant at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here, hospital sources said today. A detailed medical bulletin about the Minister’s health would be made available in the evening, sources said. Earlier on April 5, Jaitley had tweeted about being treated for kidney…
Jaitley to undergo kidney transplant
April 6, 2018New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is suffering from some kidney related problems and is set to undergo kidney transplant this weekend. A senior AIIMS official said that all paperwork and other formalities for the kidney transplant have been completed and the surgery would happen sometime this weekend. “He came to the hospital at…
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