Nirmala Sitharaman, the Finance Minister of India has announced to allocate Rs 500 crore for establishing Artificial Intelligence (AI) centres across the country as a part of the Union Budget 2025.

She was in 2019 appointed as India's first full-time woman finance minister when Prime Minister Modi won a decisive second term. After Modi came back to power in 2024 for the third time ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday made history as she presented a record eighth consecutive budget, which comes in the backdrop of slowdown in the economy and demand for tax cuts for ...

Discover the intriguing history of India’s Union Budget as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman prepares to present her eighth budget. From the first budget in 1947 to the longest speech ever given, ...

Photographs: Altaf Hussain/Reuters 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 ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to present her eighth consecutive Budget today, carrying forward her tradition of using a digital tablet enclosed in a red 'bahi-khata' style pouch.

She remains the only finance minister to have presented eight consecutive budgets under a single prime minister. First Budget of Independent India: The first-ever Union Budget of independent India ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present her eighth consecutive Union Budget on February 1, 2025, a historic milestone in India's financial governance. She will be the first finance minister ...

She was in 2019 appointed as India's first full-time woman finance minister when Prime Minister Modi won a decisive second term. After Modi came back to power in 2024 for the third time ...