{"id":403242,"date":"2021-03-06T08:36:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T03:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=403242"},"modified":"2021-03-06T08:41:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T03:11:45","slug":"it-is-my-duty-to-appeal-fm-sitharaman-on-cairn-arbitration-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/it-is-my-duty-to-appeal-fm-sitharaman-on-cairn-arbitration-award\/","title":{"rendered":"It is my duty to appeal: FM Sitharaman on Cairn arbitration award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday stated the government&#8217;s stand on appealing the $1.2 billion arbitration awarded which it lost against Cairn Energy, stating that it is her duty to appeal where the country\u2019s sovereign authority to tax is questioned. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndia&#8217;s sovereign authority to tax cannot be questioned by anybody. And even if it\u2019s an award of arbitration if there is a question about India&#8217;s sovereign right to tax, I will appeal, it is my duty to appeal,\u201d Sitharaman said. <\/p>\n<p>Sitharaman added that as a sovereign nation, the government of the day will have to question that. \u201cTo question the authority of a government to even tax, I\u2019m sorry I will appeal on that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday stated the government&#8217;s stand on appealing the $1.2 billion arbitration awarded which it lost against Cairn Energy, stating that it is her duty to appeal where the country\u2019s sovereign authority to tax is questioned. \u201cIndia&#8217;s sovereign authority to tax cannot be questioned by anybody. And even if it\u2019s an award of arbitration if there is a question about India&#8217;s sovereign right to tax, I will appeal, it is my duty to appeal,\u201d Sitharaman said. Sitharaman added that as a sovereign nation, the government of the day will have to question that. \u201cTo question [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}