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TopicFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

Topic: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

Nirmala Sitharaman is an Indian politician with the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), and has served as Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs since 2019 (this is as of March 2024). In the first Modi government, Sitharaman served as the Minister of Defence between 2017 and 2019, thereby becoming India’s second female defence minister and the second female finance minister after Indira Gandhi, and the first full-time female minister to hold each of those portfolios.

Sitharaman first joined the BJP in 2004 and was appointed party spokesperson six years later. She was first elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2014. While presenting her first budget, she made a statement by replacing the traditional budget briefcase with a ‘bahi-khata’ with the National Emblem to carry the speech and other documents.

Govt cut funding on rural jobs scheme to Rs 600 billion in 2023-24, as per Budget 2023

Reuters -
The allocation is lower than the revised 894 billion rupees spending outlay for 2022-23, and the smallest since 2017/18.

Govt announces 50 new airports, advanced landing grounds & helipads in Budget 2023

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Union Budget holds much significance as the country is scheduled to have the next Lok Sabha election in April-May 2024.

‘India better than most due to fearless govt,’ Droupadi Murmu tells Parliament before Budget

ThePrint Team -
This was President Murmu’s first address to a joint House session. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the last full-fledged Budget of the 17th Lok Sabha on 1 February.

Newsrooms, consultancies all abuzz but missing key question: Is Budget important anymore?

TCA Sharad Raghavan -
When GST was rolled out in India, proposals pertaining to 45-50 per cent of the government’s tax revenue were taken out of the Budget and placed under the GST Council.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman admitted to AIIMS but fine, report says

Nikunj Ohri -
Sitharaman was hospitalized around noon, based on reports. The Finance ministry is yet to respond regarding her condition.

Value of notes in use more than doubled in 6 yrs post demonetisation, Sitharaman tells Parliament

Abantika Ghosh -
Replying to a question in the Lok Sabha, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said both the volume and the value of notes in circulation have steadily gone up since the 2016 note ban

Forged Sitharaman’s signature, fake govt documents — Delhi Police arrests 4 for duping people

Gaurvi Narang -
The suspects, who previously worked for insurance companies, were arrested for allegedly posing as government officials, cheating almost 3,000 people.

Gore in God’s Own Country & ‘We didn’t start the fire’, feat. Thackerays

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Sitharaman foresees energy price & availability as India’s biggest short-term challenges

Reuters -
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman notes that if natural gas goes beyond the country's means, they will have to revert to coal.

Repeat of ‘Go, Goa, Gone’ moment for Congress & why boycott brigade’s ‘Brahmastra’ isn’t working

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If fundamental right to property can be taken away, so can all the others: AG Mulgaokar

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If this step even partially achieves its desired results, there will be so much dislocation in the country’s economic structure as to prove a national calamity, advocate AG Mulgaokar wrote in 1969.

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Economy

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

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Defence

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

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In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

National Interest

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

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Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.

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