NIRMALA SITARAMAN

Karnataka IT-BT minister Priyank Kharge told finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman that such a central business district in Karnataka will foster economic growth and create jobs, and also attract foreign investment.

The Congress has promised to launch a Mahalakshmi Scheme to provide Rs 1 lakh per year to every poor Indian family as unconditional cash transfer, and write off student loans, if voted to power. It also wants to guarantee a national minimum wage of ...

Nirmala Sitharaman lauded India's digital infrastructure, highlighting 43.3 crore monthly transactions. She discussed the seller, buyer, and payment system involvement. Additionally, she mentioned Viksit Bharat 2047, mobile phone production, PLI sch...

Parakala Prabhakar while speaking to a television news channel has said that "Electoral bond scam is not just the biggest scam in India but the biggest scam in the world. After electoral bond corruption became public, now the fight is not between tw...

Taking to social media platform X, the CM said Sitharaman had been consistently denying the written word. "One expects the country’s Finance Minister to speak the truth," he said.

Automakers have to reconsider their strategies, as subsidy reduction could impact their sales forecasts and profitability projections for EV models. The adoption rate of EVs in India may slow down, as cost remains a significant barrier for many pote...

Zee-Sony Merger Cancelled: Zee Entertainment Enterprises' promoter Subhash Chandra has written to FM accusing capital market regulator SEBI of trying to scuttle in the proposed deal. He has alleged that SEBI has been acting with a predominant mind, ...

The bilateral agreement on the grant was signed on Thursday at the President's House in Colombo in the presence of President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during her three-day visit to the island nation. The first proj...

Alleging that GST frauds are proliferating across the country and MSMEs are facing problems due to a web of regulations, Dr Amit Mitra, principal chief advisor to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Monday urged Union Finance Minister Nir...

The project, when becomes a reality, would become one of the prominent industrial hubs on the Bengaluru-Chennai industrial corridor and add jobs. The government would soon submit proposal about the project to the Apex body soon.

In Conversation with Nirmala Sitharaman Union Finance Minister of India Nirmala Sitharaman in conversation with senior journalist Ashok Malik. Raisina Dialogue 2023: In conversation with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday said that should the states agree, petroleum and gas under the ambit of Goods and Services Tax (GST). "Once the states agree, we will have petroleum products in the GST," she said.Petroleum and gas ca...

"Markets have very high expectations from the Budget. The market expects the FM to bat like Suryakumar Yadav, bowl like Umran Malik and field like Ravindra Jadeja," says Nilesh Shah of Kotak Mutual Fund.Budget 2023: Market expects FM to bat like Sur...

Demands of covering every trader registered under GST with an accident claim of Rs 10 lakh on the lines of the scheme introduced by the Uttar Pradesh government, inclusion of Covid -19 type pandemic in accident due to calamity, relief up to Rs 4 lak...

2023 Budget is the last full budget before the Elections next year. Will it be a populous one? Deloitte India's Gaurav Gupta shares his expectations.Budget 2023: Key elements to make it popular, explains Deloitte's Gaurav Gupta

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman attended the Kashi Tamil Sangamam program in Varanasi on December 04. He is on a two-day visit to Varanasi to participate in the ‘Kashi Tamil Sangamam’ on December 03 and 04. She will attend a seminar at Bana...

Speaking at the event virtually attended by heads of public sector banks (PSBs), Financial Services Secretary Sanjay Malhotra said all PSBs are now profitable and have stronger balance sheets, and it is imperative that they leverage this position of...

"These low-cost insurance schemes and the guaranteed pension scheme are ensuring that financial security, which was available to a select few earlier, is now reaching the last person of the society," Sitharaman said in a statement released by the fi...

"The FIIs and FPIs would come and go. But, today the Indian retail investors have proven that even if they come and go any shock that may come in is now taken care of because of the shock absorbing capacity that the Indian retailers have brought int...