Jayant Sinha

Digital competition Bill based on standing committee report: Sinha

The parliamentary panel on finance, chaired by Sinha, presented a report in December identifying 10 anti-competitive practices in digital markets and a need for ex-ante regulations to address them

Jayant Sinha says will table digital competition Bill on Friday

Sinha said that was not the case, and that the Centre was bringing its own amendments to the competition law

Jayant Sinha to introduce Competition (Amendment) Bill 2023 on Friday

The list of private members business on the Lok Sabha's website mentions this bill to be introduced on March 17

Standing Committee to take view on Competition Amendment Bill 2022

The Standing Committee of Finance headed by Jayant Sinha will meet on December 8 to consider and adopt the draft report on Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022

Delay could make 7th Economic Census data trivial, says House panel

The committee in its 44th report tabled in Parliament in March had recommended that MoSPI should release the Economic Census without any further delay lest the data becomes infructuous

Parliamentary panel wants banks to compensate customers hit by cyber fraud

The hapless customers should not be made to suffer and forced to run from pillar to post for redressal, the panel headed by BJP leader Jayant Sinha said

Standing Committee on Finance to discuss big tech firms' practices Thursday

The panel, headed by former minister of state for finance Jayant Sinha, will also hear the views of the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) on the subject

Govt working to bring changes in GST Act, public platforms: Jayant Sinha

The government is working to bring changes in the GST Act and other public platforms so that companies can utilise data to grow big in size and scale, Jayant Sinha, Chairperson, Parliament Standing Committee on Finance, said on Thursday. "Public platforms such as UPI and Aadhaar are very important platforms. Even then, for us to leapfrog, we have to do more in terms of public platforms," Sinha said while speaking at the Assocham e-summit on 'Non-Banking Finance Companies & Infrastructure Financing: Transforming the Financial Lending Landscape'. When the Factoring Bill came to the Standing Committee on Finance, the government was opening up factoring to more non-banking financial companies and enabling more NBFCs to participate in that. "But even as we were doing that we were not addressing some important platform and data related issues. That is why we suggested that anything that is on GST as an invoice should automatically be gone to TReDS as well. Then it can be used on TReDS ..

Parliamentary panel, Sebi likely to discuss action in key cases

Franklin Templeton fiasco, brokers' default, outcomes of IL&FS & DHFL may be taken up during today's meet

Divestment to help both LIC and government, says Jayant Sinha

Sinha praised Sitharaman saying she addressed the economic situation, fiscal deficit and macro-economics very well

FIR against Union min Jayant Sinha for violation of model code of conduct

Addressing the students at IIM-Ranchi on Saturday, Sinha had allegedly sought their 'blessings' for another five years

There is no proposal to cap the prices of airine tickets, says Jayant Sinha

Sinha said there was a lack of captains to man the aircrafts designed for the government's ambitious regional connectivity scheme, known as UDAN

Jayant Sinha expresses 'regret' for garlanding Jharkhand lynching convicts

On July 6, a photograph went viral in which the minister could be seen felicitating eight convicts, who came out on bail, of lynching a meat trader in Jharkhand

Letter to BS: Jayant Sinha garlanding lynching convicts is indefensible

The minister's gesture sends out wrong signals to the public

Garlanding bigotry

Openly feting convicts is a dangerous trend

Union Minister Jayant Sinha stokes controversy, garlands lynching convicts

A fast-track court on March 21 sentenced the 11 convicts to life imprisonment in Ramgarh lynching case, eight of the 11 convicts were granted bail by the Jharkhand High Court on June 29

Drones, helicopters to create billion air trips in India soon: Jayant Sinha

Minister's comments come on the heels of a spate of flight cancellations, due to grounding of planes with A320 neo engines

1 crore passengers ferried: May's air traffic hits new record

Over one crore passengers were ferried by domestic airlines in May this year

India needs Rs 2-3 lakh cr investment for new airports, says Jayant Sinha

Over the next 10-15 years for setting up new airports and adding capacity at the existing ones

Regional connectivity scheme crafted for people to make money: Jayant Sinha

Have made it profitable to fly smaller planes; this is a turbo prop market, says aviation minister