Subramanian Swamy

This is first time that the price of petrol breached Rs 90 mark in Mumbai after 2018. On Monday morning too, petrol was priced at Rs 90.34 per litre in the financial capital, while the diesel stood at Rs 80.47 per litre.

Swamy was speaking to reporters on January 14 night after addressing a lecture series titled 'Swami Vivekananda Vyakhyanmala' in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa district.

Former Telecom Minister and DMK leader A Raja, his party colleague and Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi were today acquitted by a special CBI court in the 2G spectrum allocation scam cases.

"As FM, I granted approval in the normal course of business," he said in a statement. Chidambaram's remarks comes a day after the Supreme Court asked the CBI to file status report on the probe being carried out on various aspects of the Aircel-Maxis deal.

Swamy moves Supreme Court against the issue of licence to radio channel Red FM.

SBI Chairman Arundhati Bhattacharya says the use of indelible ink has helped manage the crowds in banks better and she sees some sense of normalcy returning by the end of next week.

Demonetisation is a good move but implementation has been disastrous, says Former Additional Solicitor General of India, Biswajit Bhattacharya. The rural and agriculture sector has come to a stand still due to this move.

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy told CNBC-TV18 he will file a petition after perusing the contents of Mistry‘s letter. He said “establishment Of Vistara and AirAsia does not comply with Indian law.” He added that aviation regulator DGCA should take cognisance of Mistry‘s letter.

AK Bhattacharya of Business Standard said that Swamy is entitled to his views but BJP and the Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley have disassociated themselves from these comments.

Swamy‘s attack on Subramanian coincides with a Bloomberg News survey that the Chief Economic Adviser is the most likely to succeed Raghuram Rajan as central bank governor among the five candidates the government is said to be considering

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on June 16 pitched for abolition of Income Tax to increase savings rate and help economic growth, and also suggested nationalisation of funds stashed in tax havens to retrieve the black money

Jahangir Aziz of JPMorgan said that it is too premature for the markets to take cues from the frenzy surrounding RBI governor's reappointment. It all depends on who replaces him, he said.

The harshly worded letter allegedly says (Rajan) is acting more as a disrupter of the Indian economy than the person who wants the Indian economy to improve.

The bench passed the judgement on a batch of petitions filed by Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy and others.

The Supreme Court has now observed that the plea should not be limited to merely Jet-Etihad agreement. It has in fact directed Subramanian Swamy to make Air India, IndiGo, SpiceJet and FIA a party in the case

Meanwhile, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi, who is also representing the Gandhis in the case, says the case has no legal standing

Sunil Jain of The Financial Express says even before the National Herald case, Rahul Gandhi's tone was very aggressive and the passage of GST looked difficult.

Congress has vowed to take the fight to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In a statement Congress said that it does not view the judgement pronounced by Delhi High Court as a setback as being represented in a section of the media.

This comes hours after the Delhi High Court dismissed their plea challenging the summons. The Gandhis are expected to seek a stay from appearing before the trial court on Tuesday.