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New Delhi: Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has launched a blistering attack on former finance minister Yashwant Sinha for his criticism of the state of economy under the NDA government, saying the senior BJP leader is using "low level language" against the party which "gave him everything".

Prasad said the BJP was pained by Sinha’s language and asked him to introspect about what the party gave him.
In a retort to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks that some people were spreading pessimism like Shalya, a character from the Mahabharat, Sinha had said he was like Bhishma and he would not allow anyone to "disrobe" the economy.

New Delhi: US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis has asserted that President Donald Trump would try to work with Pakistan "one more time" but is prepared to take "whatever steps necessary" if Islamabad does not "change its behaviour" and continued to support terror groups.

Mattis also warned Pakistan of global "diplomatic isolation" and losing its Non-NATO ally status if it failed to dismantle terrorists' safe havens on its soil.

His tough talk on Pakistan came at a time when Foreign Minister Khwaja Asif is in the US as part of efforts to rebuild bilateral ties frayed after President Trump accused Islamabad of sheltering terror groups.

New Delhi: The World Bank  has asserted that recent slowdown in India's economic growth is an "aberration" mainly due to the temporary disruptions in preparation for the GST.

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is going to have a hugely positive impact on the Indian economy.

"There's been a deceleration in the first quarter, but we think that's mostly due to temporary disruptions in preparation for the GST, which by the way is going to have a hugely positive impact on the economy," Kim told a group of reporters during a conference call ahead of the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington.

New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha has dared party  leadership to take action against him for his criticism of the Modi government's stewardship of the economy.

"That will be the best day of my life, because I am not doing anything that calls for action," Sinha said, adding that BJP was as much "my party as anybody else's" for which "I have given sweat and blood", he remarked. 

Sinha was answering a query about BJP initiating disciplinary action against him, after he released a book titled Tidings of the Troubled Times' by Congress leader Manish Tewari.

Sinha said he was an "elder statesman" and "beyond caring" — a barb to remind that he had been put in the BJP's 'margdarshakmandal' after PM Narendra Modi assumed power.