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Budget 2025: Housing measures announced by Nirmala Sitharaman

February 1, 2025 admin

Image for representative purpose | Photo Credit: The Hindu Presenting the Union Budget for 2025 in the Parliament on Saturday (February 1, 2025), Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman listed measures to expand affordable housing. Ms. Sitharaman announced that 40,000 units of housing would be completed in 2025-26 to help families which have taken loans to buy…

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Union Budget 2025: Nirmala Sitharaman’s full speech

February 1, 2025 admin

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman shows a red pouch containing the budget documents, as she arrives to present the Union Budget 2025 in the Parliament in New Delhi, on February 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented a record 8th consecutive Union Budget on Saturday (February 1, 2025). Also read: Budget 2025 LIVE updates…

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Budget 2025: FM opens up Nuclear power sector to private players and incentivises distribution reforms

February 1, 2025 admin

Currently, four VVER 1,000-MWe reactors are being built at the KKNPP site. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Boosting state’s power distribution and opening the nuclear power sector was announced by Union Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her eighth Budget speech on Saturday (February 1, 2025). She announced incentivisation of distribution reforms to help the financial…

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Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget Day Saree Is A Tribute To Madhubani Art

February 1, 2025 admin

New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s attire on Union Budget days has always gained attention for the past seven years. Her different coloured sarees with unique embroidering have told a different tale. This year, the minister’s record eighth consecutive Budget, she draped an off-white handloom silk saree with fish-themed embroidery and a golden border…

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“This Budget Offers Comprehensive Package For Youth”: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

July 26, 2024 admin

Nirmala Sitharaman presented her seventh consecutive Union Budget earlier this week, a new record. Today, the Finance Minister, in an exclusive interview to NDTV’s Editor-in-Chief Sanjay Pugalia, answers the questions that have been making the headlines since the budget was unveiled and more. Here are the top quotes from the interview: * This budget offers…

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Budget 2024: Opposition walks out of Rajya Sabha over ‘neglect’ of States; Nirmala Sitharaman hits back

July 24, 2024 admin

The INDIA bloc parties, led by the Congress, staged a walkout from the Rajya Sabha on July 24, in protest against all States, except two, being “ignored” in the Union Budget, an allegation termed “outrageous” by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who said all the States never found a mention in any of the previous Budgets,…

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Budget 2024: Nirmala Sitharaman signals shift from earlier trickle-down strategy to a slew of schemes

July 23, 2024 admin

Presenting her seventh Union Budget and the first after this year’s Lok Sabha election, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on July 23 unveiled a flurry of measures aimed at fixing the woes of unemployed youth, small businesses, and the middle class, and sought to strengthen the ruling NDA coalition’s bonds with support for multiple investment projects…

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Union Budget 2024: Finance Minister proposes National Cooperation Policy

July 23, 2024 admin

Updated – July 23, 2024 11:50 am IST Published – July 23, 2024 11:41 am IST Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman along with Finance Secretary T V Somanathan displays a red pouch carrying the Budget documents after she arrived at the Parliament to present the Union Budget 2024-25, in New Delhi, on, July 23, 2024….

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Finance Minister wraps up consultation ahead of FY25 budget

July 7, 2024 admin

Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman chairs the eighth Pre-Budget consultation with representatives of the Employment and Skilling division. File. | Photo Credit: PTI Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has concluded consultations with various stakeholders, including representatives of industry and social sectors, as part of the budget preparation exercise. Ms. Sitharaman will present…

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The Hindu Morning Digest, June 17, 2024

June 17, 2024 admin

A view shows the plenary session of the Summit on Peace in Ukraine, in Stansstad, Switzerland, June 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Nirmala Sitharaman to hold pre-budget meeting with industry chambers on June 20 Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is likely to hold pre-budget consultations with industry chambers on June 20, sources said. The Union…

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