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TopicNirmala Sitharaman

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.

‘Unfair & unfortunate’—Anand Sharma on Sitharaman’s claim UPA ‘sold out food security at WTO’

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Sharma, the former commerce minister, termed the charge ‘false and incorrect’, asserting that facts on record and official WTO documents contradicted Sitharaman’s claim.

Nirmala Sitharaman achieved a creditable capex record. Now, troubling questions are emerging

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The Budget does not speak of agriculture as a standalone sector. Instead, it embeds agriculture across seven priorities.

Sitharaman proposes a new National Institute of Design in eastern India. ‘A good push’

Tina Das -
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From populism to productivity—why the Budget 2026 makes a structural turn

Mukesh Butani -
The Budget proposals seek to balance sustained high economic growth with fiscal discipline and structural transformation.

Budget 2026 is deliberately boring. Given the global climate, it’s a smart decision

Bidisha Bhattacharya -
Budget 2026 does not seek to redefine India’s growth model; rather, it reinforces the existing framework characterised by fiscal restraint, public investment, and manufacturing depth.

Confident politics, anxious geopolitics. Modi govt’s Budget is an exercise in contrast

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The Budget has indeed woken up the sleeping markets, just not the way the government’s fans would have expected.

Sitharaman increases tax on F&O trades in the Union Budget 2026. ‘Undesirable move’

Samridhi Tewari -
As per a SEBI report, about 90% of F&O traders lose money because of market illiteracy. More than 75% of loss-makers kept trading even after losing money for two consecutive years.

What is ISM 2.0 launched by Sitharaman to boost India’s semiconductor sector?

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The Finance Ministry has allocated Rs 1,000 crore to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology for India Semiconductor Mission 2.0.
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