Nirmala Sitharaman

Congress general secretary says the budget fails to address concerns related to unemployment, price hike

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her budget speech, announced ‘Mahila Samman Bachat Patra’ for women with a fixed interest rate of 7.5 per cent, for two years

Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on Wednesday expressed her disappointment at the budget saying that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman didn’t have much to offer in terms of creating economic opportunities for women and youth. The expectations from the Budget were high because of the economic survey indicated recovery from covid impact, she said. […]

East Delhi BJP MP Gautam Gambhir on Wednesday praised the Central government increasing the tax rebate threshold to ₹7 lakhs per annum, stating that the Budget aims to improve the life of the common man. Presenting the Union Budget 2023-24 in the Lok Sabha, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman earlier today announced an increase in the […]

The government is going to go out and borrow. That essentially means the private sector is going to be squeezed out, said Manish Tewari

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor gave his nod to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s announcement of of setting up a National Digital Library for children and adolescents on Wednesday in her budget speech. “As a writer, I definitely appreciate this,” he said in his post budget media interaction with The New Indian.  Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today […]

As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman began giving her Budget speech on Wednesday, some members of the Opposition raised chants of Bharat Jodo. Sitharaman continued her speech without getting perturbed. “This is the first budget of Amritkal,” Sitharaman Said. India will grow at 7 percent despite global economic slowdown, said the Finance Minister. The Finance Minister […]

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman started the new tradition of reading the budget out of an iPad that has been ‘Made in India’. The iPad is placed inside a ”bahi khata”. These changes symbolized a modern India that’s also rooted in its tradition. Ahead of the budget presentation today, The New Indian’s Executive Editor Rohan Dua […]

People are looking to FM Nirmala Sitharaman to give them relief in the form of income tax and on their savings.

The Union minister’s condition was stated to be stable. She is expected to be released soon