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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
TopicFinance ministry

Topic: finance ministry

Subhash Chandra Garg says no connection between his retirement & finance ministry transfer

Former finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg had announced his voluntary retirement from service a day after he was shifted to the power ministry.

Modi clearly missed the danger signals as economy tanked; he must now steer it

Subhash Garg’s replacement Atanu Chakraborty in finance ministry is an old Gujarat hand. Modi and Chakraborty obviously know each other well.

Subhash Garg resignation has few precedents — last senior officer quit 33 years ago

In a major bureaucratic rejig Wednesday, the Modi government transferred finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg to power ministry.

Shunted to power ministry, finance secretary Subhash Garg opts for voluntary retirement

Subhash Chandra Garg, moved to power ministry Wednesday, was behind the budget announcement to raise funds from sovereign bond issuance overseas.

Nirmala Sitharaman meets Editors Guild to discuss media restrictions in finance ministry

Days after the Budget, the finance ministry barred entry of all journalists into its offices if they don't have an appointment.

Editors Guild urges Sitharaman to lift entry restrictions on journalists to finance ministry

In a statement issued Wednesday, the Editors Guild said a blanket order was not the answer while also reiterating that journalists should behave with "restraint and responsibility".

Should journalists get unrestricted access to govt offices or has media become too invasive?

The finance ministry under the Modi government has barred entry of all journalists, including PIB accredited, in the North Block without prior appointment.

Disability pension of military personnel who retire after full service will now be taxed

Finance ministry rules that those military personnel who continue in service until retirement will have to pay income tax on their disability pension.

State-run banks’ troubles increase as number of wilful defaulters goes up 14% in one year

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tells Parliament that the number of wilful defaulters who owe money to public sector banks has risen to 8,582 from 7,535.

Corruption, fraud, sexual harassment: Charges the 12 forcibly-retired IRS officers face

Twelve IRS (income tax) officers of the finance ministry were removed Monday under a rarely-used provision of civil services rules.

On Camera

Sudan shows what happens when the world is happy to let mass killers rule

Fourteen million refugees, and 25 million facing acute hunger, should be reason enough for the world to dismantle the dystopia in Sudan — even if the sadism of its rulers is not.

Kerala’s silent startup surge—work near home, smooth roads, fast internet & diaspora engagement

Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.

India & Israel ink agreement to share, co-develop & co-produce advanced defence tech

Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday. 

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.