Budget 2025: Nirmala Sitharaman has once again made a style statement with her saree choice. Her Madhubani saree pays tribute to a 2021 Padma Shri awardee. Nirmala Sitharaman, India's finance ...

Dressed in a white kantha stitch saree, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman posed outside the ministry this morning with a ...

Nirmala Sitharaman will present her 8th Budget using a digital tablet enclosed in a 'bahi-khata' pouch, maintaining the ...

FM Nirmala Sitharaman is set to present Budget 2025 today, continuing her tradition of using a digital tablet wrapped in a ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present India's budget on a tablet, continuing a tradition of breaking away from ...

India will set up a 250-billion-rupee ($2.9-billion) maritime development fund for the long-term financing of the country's ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met with President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan today before presenting the Union Budget 2025 in Parliament. As part of tradition, President Murmu ...

The tradition of carrying a briefcase for budget presentations in India, rooted in British customs, evolved when Nirmala ...

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 ...

Draped in an off-white handloom silk saree with fish-themed embroidery and golden border, Sitharaman posed for the traditional 'briefcase' photo outside her North Block office.

Sitharaman also visited President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan ahead of the Union Budget 2025 presentation.