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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.

How Sitharaman can live up to her Budget promise of KYC simplification

Renuka Sane -
Our response to KYC problems has been to bring technology to streamline processes. The problem is that they often don’t work as well as one would have hoped.

Budget 2023: Fiscal deficit to meet 6.4% target in FY23, aim for 5.9% in FY24, says Sitharaman

TCA Sharad Raghavan -
In her budget speech, Sitharaman said her govt was committed to bringing down fiscal deficit to 4.5% by 2025-26 and pegged economic growth at 7% in the current fiscal.

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

ANI -
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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Economy

IndiGo’s profits dipped, most airlines sunk into losses last fiscal even as flier numbers soared

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Defence

Dubai Tejas crash revives focus on advanced, fully automated safety systems

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