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...

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.

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...

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...

Shortly after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented a bigger Rs 39.45 lakh crore Budget 2022-23 in Lok Sabha, the opposition parties reacted sharply against the government's economic blueprint while BJP leaders, including Union ministers, we...

As the FM stepped out to head for Parliament for the big day, the camerapersons caught a few moments.

Measures for improving business climate, more medium term plan for manufacturing and infrastructure and a fiscal roadmap could be on the anvil, says Shiv Sehgal, President & Head Institutional Clients Group, Edelweiss Financial Services

Reiterating non-availability of funding from multilateral development banks and other international financing institutions to Arunachal Pradesh for stated and unstated reasons, he requested the Ministry of Finance to consider an appropriate mechanis...

Sitharaman has held meetings with stakeholders of industries, financial sectors players, labour unions, agriculturists and leading economists during which suggestions were made about rationalisation of income tax slabs, infrastructure status for dig...

"And therefore, for a company to flourish and expand in its area of operation, the role of company secretary to make it easy, to make it ready for the company to follow the guiding principles that you might advice them with, is going to make a lot o...