Finance minister p Chidambaram urges officials not to hound taxpayers
Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram urged officials on Tuesday not to hound the country's taxpayers, despite the pressure the officials are under to meet the annual tax targets as the economy faces its deepest slump for nine years.
Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Monday chided the Indian Premier League for ignoring Pakistani players, terming their exclusion ``a disservice to cricket'' and maintaining that the government had no role in it.