NEW DELHI, May 27 (Reuters) - India's new Prime Minister Narendra Modi named Arun Jaitley as finance minister on Tuesday, tasking his close party colleague with reviving investment in an economy that has been growing at its slowest rate in a decade.
Jaitley, 61, will also lead the defence ministry as well as corporate affairs, the government said in a statement on Modi's cabinet that was sworn in on Monday.
