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Nirmala Sitharaman on Rafale LIVE: Navjot Singh Sidhu hugging Pakistan army chief demoralised Indians
Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman is addressing the media at Indian women’s press corps in Delhi.Here are the live updates:
4:30 PM IST
Centre gets fixed tax on fuel: Sitharaman
If you breakdown the price of petrol and diesel the tax that centre gets is a fixed price. State governments taxes on fuel is a certain percentage and changes. What we collect as taxes certain amount goes to the states too says Nirmala Sitharaman on fuel hike.
4 PM IST
No proposal yet to cut Army strength: Sitharaman
No proposal yet to cut down army strength. But the army chief must have discussed it internally, says Nirmala Sitharaman
3:55 PM IST
Sidhu’s hug demoralised Indians: Sitharaman
Navjot Sidhu has a lot of admirers, he’s got his own following. Somebody of that stature going there and hugging the chief of the army; it certainly has an impact on the soldiers. It demoralises people.
3:45 pm IST
Direct all questions to UPA: Sitharaman
UPA could have strenghtened HAL. Every question should actually go to them(UPA government), they didn’t take care of HAL, didn’t make agreement appealing enough. Negotiations with Russia on S400 have almost reached the final stage
