New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the Modi Government’s nine priorities and four pillars to take the country forward as she presented the Union Budget for the year 2024-2025 in the Parliament this morning. She said, the Government will make sustained efforts on nine priorities for ‘Viksit Bharat’, listing them as productivity and resilience…
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman achieved a Parliamentary milestone this morning by presenting her seventh consecutive Budget, a feat previously achieved only by C.D. Deshmukh 68 years ago. Both Deshmukh, who presented Budgets between 1951 and 1956, and Nirmala Sitharaman have presented six full Budgets and an interim Budget each. Two of Deshmukh’s Budgets…
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman wore an off-white Mangalgiri saree with a magenta border from Andhra Pradesh to present the full Budget for 2024-25. Earlier in Feb. 2024, she wore a blue saree with Kantha stitch work, famous in West Bengal, while presenting the 2024 interim Budget. In 2023, she opted for a red…
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to present her seventh Union Budget tomorrow, July 23 at 11 am, as the Monsoon Session of Parliament began this morning. With this, she becomes the first Finance Minister to present seven consecutive budgets, surpassing Morarji Desai’s record of six. Desai served as Finance Minister from…
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the highly anticipated Union Budget on July 23. President Droupadi Murmu approved a proposal on Saturday to summon both houses of Parliament between July 22 and August 12. This will be the first budget presented by Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Government since it was re-elected for a…
Bengaluru: Amid intense mudslinging over the delay in release of drought relief funds to the State from the Central Government, Union Finance Minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman has clarified that the delay was not intentional as the Centre was awaiting permission from Election Commission of India (ECI) to conduct High Power Committee meeting. Addressing a press…
Mysore/Mysuru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah dared Union Finance Minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman for an open debate on the funds owed to State Government by the Centre. He was speaking during a convention organised at Bhootale Grounds in Vidyaranyapuram in the city on Wednesday, where BJP leader and former Chairman of Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) H.V….
Ten-year Narendra Modi era has transformed India from despair to optimism: Finance Minister Tax devolution: UPA Vs NDA Tax devolution to Karnataka surged by 258 percent from 2014 to 2024 compared to the 10-year tenure of UPA government. Grants to the States rose by 273 percent during the NDA period. Between 2004 and 2014, Karnataka…
Mysore/Mysuru: Without directly referencing the present Congress-led State government or mentioning Chief Minister Siddaramaiah by name, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman indicated that Karnataka’s economy had been flourishing ‘until recently.’ “But now the elected Government in the State is accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of not giving them money to run their programmes. If you did…
Mysore/Mysuru: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman highlighted that in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Modi instructed the Finance Ministry to provide interest-free loans to States for 50 years, aimed at bolstering infrastructure development and supporting ongoing projects. “No Finance Commission had recommended, but the Centre decided to give all the States interest-free loans…
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