New Delhi: The Maiden Budget of the Narendra Modi Government in the second tenure was presented in the Lok Sabha this morning. It was Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s first Budget and also the second fiscal proposals of a financial year by any woman Finance Minister. Indira Gandhi has been the only woman to have presented…
Wraps budget documents in traditional ‘bahi khaata’ New Delhi: Setting a new precedent, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman this morning was seen hugging the Budget documents wrapped in a red cloth, the traditional ‘bahi khaata’ way, instead of the leather briefcase that until now her predecessors marched out with. Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy Subramanian said…
New Delhi: While presenting the Union Budget 2019, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman referred to Lord Basaveshwara and his teachings a couple of times during the speech. The Union Minister invoked Basavanna’s principles and said, “Our government recognises and follows the teachings of Lord Basaveshwara who preached Kayakave Kailasa. Lord Basaveshwara was 12th-century social reformer and…
Often criticised for not speaking much, Singh spoke 18,177 words in 1991 New Delhi: Nirmala Sitharaman is the second woman to present Union Budget. Indira Gandhi was the first. But Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister who held the finance portfolio with her. Nirmala Sitharaman is different in that sense. She presents the Union Budget…
New Delhi: India’s first female Finance Minister in almost five decades, Nirmala Sitharaman, who has held a wide range of jobs including Defence Minister, will present India’s full-year budget for the next fiscal (2019-20) in Parliament tomorrow morning at a time when she is under pressure to spend more to reinvigorate the economy. Fifty-nine-year-old Sitharaman…
Karnataka Minister for Water Resources D.K. Shivakumar called on the Union Minister for Finance, Nirmala Sitharaman, in New Delhi this morning and sought her intervention to resolve the Krishna Water Dispute-II, Mekedatu and Mahadayi Drinking Water and Hydroelectric Projects.
Nirmala gets Finance, Rajnath Defence, Smriti Women & Child New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s close aide Amit Shah will be India’s new Home Minister while Rajnath Singh, the Home Minister in previous Modi regime has been given the Defence portfolio as the list of new Ministers for Modi’s second term was announced this morning….
New Delhi: Social media has lauded the gesture of Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman who, burying the political differences, visited senior Congress leader and Thiruvananthapuram candidate Shashi Tharoor in a hospital and enquired about his health. Sitharaman, after completing her visit to Thiruvananthapuram and returning to Delhi, visited the hospital where Tharoor was undergoing treatment after…
Mysuru: Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has claimed that the NDA Government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the strongest in terms of achievements made during the last five years since 1947. Speaking at BJP ‘Shakti Kendra Pramukhs’ Meet at JK Grounds in city yesterday afternoon, she lauded Modi and said that “in the history…
Mysuru: Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, admiring the achievements of her Government in the last five years, said that it was due to relentless work touching upon every aspect of people’s lives by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the country is marching towards development in every field. She was speaking at the packed ‘Intellectuals Meet’ organised…
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