By Vikram Muthanna Like most Indians I too watch the Union budget. But usually by the end of the Finance Minister’s speech I feel like I have understood nothing and end up feeling like I have a learning disability. Finally my perception of a budget is reduced to — “what has gotten costlier and what…
UNION BUDGET 2019
July 5, 2019New 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…
Nirmala dumps British-era suitcase
July 5, 2019Wraps 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…
Budget a key step towards New India, says PM Modi
July 5, 2019New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s maiden Budget and said it was a key step towards ‘New India’. PM Modi said the Budget will act as a roadmap to transform the agriculture sector of India. He further added that the budget is one of hope and will boost country’s development…
Nirmala Sitharaman to present Union Budget tomorrow
July 4, 2019New 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…
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