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Topic: 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.

Budget 2023: Rural to urban, farmers to capital, how Sitharaman is reshaping Budget lexicon

Nikhil Rampal -
There has been significant transition in Nirmala Sitharaman's choice of words over years, ThePrint finds after analysing budget speeches from the beginning of her tenure in 2019-20.

#JustMiddleClassThings with Nirmala Sitharaman & how to sink to greater depths than Joshimath

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It is time for Union Budget to go local. See how Sikkim, Bihar and Kerala did it

Amarjeet Sinha -
Local governments should be allowed to change Budget lines up to 30 per cent to begin with, based on the needs and priorities of the communities.

GST Council agrees to decriminalise certain offences, doubles limit for launching prosecution

PTI -
Council members agreed to raise the threshold of launching prosecution to Rs 2 crore from the present Rs 1 crore & GST on husk of pulses was reduced to 0 from 5 per cent.

End subsidies, handouts — what Budget 2023 must propose to bring deficit down to below 6%

TN Ninan -
Since her first budget in 2019, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's approach is notable for growing realism, but she must bite the bullet on subsidies which ballooned in Covid years.

51 cow universities, old pension scheme, jobs — what RSS affiliates want from 2023 Budget

Shanker Arnimesh -
Welfare schemes and ‘self-reliance’ figure high on Sangh organisations’ wishlists for finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman ahead of the Budget, which she will present on 1 February.

Don’t blame Nirmala Sitharaman. India has a historical obsession with rupee value

Srijan Shukla -
During colonial rule, the British maintained an overvalued rupee, which essentially served London’s interests but had detrimental effects on the Indian economy.

Our take on SC order on hijab, Russia attacks, Indian economy—in 50 words

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FM Sitharaman right to warn West on high gas prices. Developed nations can’t have everything

ThePrint Team -
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India will be forced to use more coal as gas prices ‘beyond means’, Sitharaman hints in US

TCA Sharad Raghavan -
The 2 main risks facing the Indian economy in the short term are energy prices & availability and high fertiliser prices, the Finance Minister said at The Brookings Institution in the US Tuesday.
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