Union Budget 2023: All eyes are on Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman who is working on preparing the forthcoming Union Budget 2023. Every sector expects something from the budget and the most challenging part of the budget is to have a balanced approach.

Lok Sabha: The Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has warned the members of the house against referring to anyone's caste and religion.

Forbes’ World’s 100 Most Powerful Women: Along with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Nykaa founder Falguni Nayar, the other 4 Indians are named in Forbes’ World’s 100 Most Powerful Women list.

Union Budget 2023: Economists said the letter written to the finance minister, is a follow-up to our letters of 20 December 2017 and 21 December 2018 (addressed to her predecessor, Arun Jaitley).

Budget 2023: The pre-budget meeting with state finance ministers will be held in New Delhi on November 25, an official said.

India-US Economic Financial Partnership: The ninth meeting of the India-US Economic Financial Partnership will be led by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and visiting US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen as the latter is on a day-long visit to India on November 11.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's statement came while she was speaking on the distribution of funds to states, as per the recommendations of the 14th Finance Commission.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman highlighted eight areas for consideration during India's G20 presidency, which will start on December 1. These topics included multilateral institution changes and food and energy security.

"ED does not appear at first instance," Sitharaman said as she responded to a question in connection with the ED and IT Department, alleging these institutions have been used to go after sections of private capital but also civil societies.

Nirmala Sitharaman on subsidies: As an illustration, she said that by providing free LPG connections under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojna over the last six years, the Indian Government has ensured that access to clean cooking methods has achieved near saturation for women in India.

5G technology in India: Sitharaman said the private companies that have made this product have said by 2024 end most of the country will be able to avail of this technology.

Startups in India: PM Narendra Modi, she told a think-tank here, has himself engaged with startups and the government’s policies have created an enabling environment as a result of which there are over 100 unicorns in India.

Sitharaman made the remarks at the prestigious Brookings Institute think-tank during a fireside chat with eminent economist Eshwar Prasad.

Bharat Rashtra Samithi news: Nirmala Sitharaman said that when Telangana state was formed in 2014, it was a revenue surplus state.

The Finance Minister interacted with the vendors and even bought vegetables from them. While interacting with the vendors she asked them about the difficulties they experienced.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had accused then Congress government of implementing half-baked reforms where the economy was not opened in the right way but as per the strictures imposed by the IMF.

Sitharaman on student growth: Sitharaman at an event here said India's higher education was no less when compared to global universities and people who have studied in Indian universities were the second largest contingent when it comes to managing the best of companies around the world.

The budget for the next year will be addressing critical issues of high inflation, job creation, boosting demand, and putting the economy on a sustained 8 percent-plus growth path.

Inflation management cannot be singularly left to the monetary policy, which has proved totally ineffective in many countries, Sitharaman said.

Union Minister said since March-April 2020, the Centre has been providing rice priced at Rs 30-Rs 35 free of cost without the State government and the beneficiaries having to contribute anything.