On February 1, 2025, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to deliver her eighth consecutive Union Budget. Under ...
So spoke R.K Shanmukham Chetty (alternatively spelled Chettiar), the first Finance Minister of free India, as he presented ...
Singh understood the power of compromise. “He knew that sometimes taking two steps backward and moving one step forward was ...
Sitharaman, India’s first full-time woman Finance Minister, broke away from the colonial tradition of carrying a Budget briefcase in July 2019, opting instead for a traditional ‘bahi-khata’, to carry ...
On February 28, 1948 just after independence, Finance Minister R.K. Shanmukham Chetty presented the nation’s first full budget.
The first Economic Survey of India was presented in 1950-51 by Finance Minister Dr. John Matthai alongside the budget.
The survey pegged India’s growth in the financial year 2026 at 6.3-6.8 per cent. This is in line with the International ...
MAXIMUM NUMBER OF BUDGETS: Former Prime Minister Morarji Desai holds the record for presenting the maximum number of budgets.
Anticipating US action on tariffs, India seems to have made the first move by revamping its tariff structure by reducing the ...