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May be longest Budget speech in history but was 'hollow': Rahul Gandhi
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Soon after the presentation of Union Budget 2020-2021 by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday called it "hollow" and "tactical stuff without any central idea".
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Finance Minister Sitharaman delivers longest budget speech, breaks own rec
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharman on Saturday presented her second union budget and made the record of delivering the longest budget speech.
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'Like a lotus blooming in Dal Lake': Sitharaman recites Kashmiri verse in
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday presented the Union Budget 2020 and followed the tradition of reciting poetry and couplets with a Kashmiri verse, outlining the inclusiveness of the country.
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Sitharaman pays homage to Arun Jaitley in her budget speech
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday paid homage to her predecessor, late Arun Jaitely, terming him as the architect of the Goods and Services Tax (GST).
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Sitharaman's budget speech kept women MPs upbeat, enthusiastic throughout
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), July 5 (ANI): Bowing before her parents sitting in the Speaker's gallery of Lok Sabha, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday presented the historical budget that drew the highest applause from women on several occasions.
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Nirmala Sitharaman wins hearts in LS by using Hindi, Urdu and Tamil in bud
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 5 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her maiden budget on Friday and while doing so, the leader made her speech interesting by using multiple proverbs and couplets in Hindi, Urdu and Tamil languages.
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Tinge of poetry, divinity in Sitharaman's Budget speech
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 05 (ANI): From poetry to divinity, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made sure that her maiden Budget speech on Friday was interspersed with couplets and quotes.
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Key Highlights of Union Budget 2019-20
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 5 (ANI): Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday made her maiden Budget Speech and presented the Union Budget 2019-20 in the Lok Sabha. The key highlights of Union Budget 2019 are as follows:
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Several reforms would be undertaken to promote rental housing: FM
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 5 (ANI) Union Finance Minister Nirmala on Friday said the Centre would take substantial steps to promote rental housing for which government would make amendments in the existing rental laws.
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Govt should not insist on technology, should be left to industry: Ex-Marut
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Noida (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Feb 2 (ANI): After Finance Minister Piyush Goyal in his interim Budget speech said that India will drive on electric vehicles (EV) with renewables becoming a major source of energy supply, industry veteran and former managing director of Maruti Suzuki Jagdis
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The only thing this government knows about jobs is ‘Pakodanomics’: Chidamb
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Friday asked why there was no mention of the words education and jobs in the Interim Budget speech of Union Minister Piyush Goyal and said the only thing the NDA government knows about jobs is ‘Pakodanomics’.
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Rs 1,650 crore allocated for PM Modi's research fellows scheme
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India] February 8 (ANI): The Union Cabinet approved the implementation of Prime Minister's Research Fellows (PMRF) scheme at a total cost of Rs 1,650 crore for a period of seven years beginning 2018-19.
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