Tue, May 14, 2024
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that the government is confident of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's return to power in the ongoing Lok Sabha election. Her remarks come a day after several parts of the country voted under a fourth phase of polling in the world's largest electoral exercise.
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Wed, May 08, 2024
The Finance Minister said that contrary to Rahul Gandh's claims of HAL not performing well, its market valuation, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's tenure, has skyrocketed by 1,370 per cent in merely four years, rising from Rs 17,398 crore in 2020 to Rs 2.5 lakh crore as of May 7.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman took to X (formerly Twitter) to say that PSUs are benefitting “significantly from the culture of professionalism infused in them along with increased operational freedom”, in a categorical rebuttal to certain claims made by the Oppostition about the sector.
Mon, Dec 26, 2022
The 63-year-old has been admitted in a private ward of the hospital. She was taken to the hospital around 12 noon.
Sun, Dec 18, 2022
The department would go by the view that 28 per cent GST is payable on full bet value put in by a player, and not net of margins.
Thu, Dec 15, 2022
The GoM, in its last meeting in November, had agreed on a 28 per cent GST on online gaming casinos and horse racing.
Wed, Dec 14, 2022
Sitharaman was responding to a supplementary query of (CPI-M) member V Sivadasan during the question hour that why CSR funds cannot be given to chief ministers' relief funds of state governments.
Tue, Dec 13, 2022
Sitharaman said the Customs department needs to use a 'cocktail' of technology tools, like dark net, artificial intelligence, web3 and metaverse.
Mon, Dec 12, 2022
The respective accountant general (AG) has to provide a certificate that the particular state has to get this much of compensation, the finance minister said.
Sun, Nov 27, 2022
In a letter shot off on Friday, the forum stated, "Now your email dated November 25, 2022 under reference, makes it explicit that each central trade union will be allowed to speak for three minutes. This is a joke and we refuse to be part of such a cheap joke. We will not participate in the proposed video conference on November 28, 2022."
Fri, Nov 25, 2022
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharman has chaired a pre-Budget meeting with the finance ministers of all States and Union Territories for taking their inputs and suggestions for the upcoming Budget for 2023-24. The meeting took place on Friday in the national capital.
Tue, Nov 22, 2022
The round of meetings on budget preparations is going on. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met the people associated with agriculture and agro today. Apart from this, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also had a meeting with financial market experts. Know complete details from Tarun Sharma.
Mon, Nov 21, 2022
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman began her Pre-Budget 2023 consultations with the first group of leaders from Industry and experts in Infrastructure and Climate Change today. What was important in today's meeting? Watch this special report on India 360.
The Ministry of Power, the Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Civil Aviation, and the Ministry of Oil and Gas are likely to miss the target.
Budget 2023-24 Expectations: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday kicked off pre-budget consultations, holding meetings with industry chamber heads and infrastructure experts about their expectations from the upcoming Budget.
The Budget should focus on measures to accelerate job creation and broaden the tax base by rationalising GST and personal income tax slabs to boost consumption, industry bodies said in their pre-Budget meeting with finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday.
On Monday, she will hold consultations with the industry captains and experts on infrastructure and climate change in two groups.
Sun, Nov 13, 2022
In her first visit to India as Secretary of the Treasury, Yellen on Friday termed India as an "indispensable partner to the US" and called for further strengthening trade and investment between the two nations.
Tue, Nov 01, 2022
The finance minister assured that the process of financing SDGs should be a lot more friendly towards lower-income and developing countries.
Mon, Oct 17, 2022
Rupee vs Dollar: At the interbank foreign exchange, the domestic unit opened lower at 82.33 against the dollar, then lost further ground to quote at 82.38, registering a fall of 19 paise over its previous close.
Sun, Oct 16, 2022
India will assume the Presidency of the G20 for one year from December 1, 2022 to November 30, 2023. Under its Presidency, India is expected to host over 200 G20 meetings across the country, beginning December 2022.
Sat, Oct 15, 2022
The government has ensured the availability of free food grains to more than 800 million vulnerable families for the past 25 months, through the country's massive public distribution network, FM Sitharaman said.
"India's foreign exchange reserves at USD 537.5 billion as on September 23, 2022, compare favourably with most peer economies. Two-thirds of the decline in reserves is due to valuation changes arising from an appreciating US dollar and higher US bond yields," Sitharaman said.
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