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MGNREGA demand-driven scheme, fund allocation in Budget not low: Sitharama
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The Union Budget allocated Rs 60,000 crore for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme for 2023-24, 18 per cent lower than the Rs 73,000 crore budget estimates for the current year 2022-23, and about 33 per cent lower than the Rs 89,000 crore revised es
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"Whom are you laughing upon, the people..." Union FM Sitharaman slams KCR
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Retorting to Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's statement of dubbing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious target of reaching a USD 5 trillion economy as a "joke", Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said that the debt of the State crossed Rs 3 lakh crores fr
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Continuity in capital expenditure is to keep momentum in India's growth: S
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Capital investment outlay is being increased steeply for the third year in a row by 33 per cent to Rs 10 lakh crore, which would be 3.3 per cent of GDP. This will be almost three times the outlay in 2019-20.
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Petroleum products can be brought under GST once states agree: Sitharaman
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The 49th meeting of the GST Council is scheduled to be held here in the national capital on February 18, to be chaired by finance minister Sitharaman.
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Union Budget ensuring multiplier effect for growth momentum in all sectors
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The Union Finance Minister stated that capital expenditure has the potential to benefit a range of core industries, making it an effective way to ensure that money is directed to the right places and generate multiplier effects.
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Sri Lankan envoy Moragoda meets Nirmala Sitharaman ahead of G20 Finance Mi
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The meeting between the Finance Minister and the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka took place just ahead of the first meeting of the G20 Finance Ministers scheduled to be held on February 24-25, 2023 in Bengaluru, chaired by Minister Sitharaman.
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G20 members working together to bring collective SOP on crypto: FM Sithara
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
While replying to a query from DMK MP T Sumathy, the Finance Minister said, "At the moment, they (cryptocurrencies) are largely unregulated in India; whether it is mining or the asset or whether it is the transaction, we recognise that it is completely driven by technology and a standalon
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Sitharaman address RBI Board, highlights thrust areas of Budget
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Complimenting the Finance Minister on the Budget, the Board members made a few suggestions for consideration of the government
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Cryptocurrency is under discussion with G20 nations: Union Finance ministe
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Responding to a question on the new income tax regime announced in the Union Budget 2023, the Minister said that the simple step of trying to leave some money in the middle-class' hands leads to a lot of inferences. "We had said earlier we will simplify and reduce income tax rates, that's wh
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RBI wants opinion of stakeholders whenever there is policy announcement: G
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The Governor was speaking at a joint conference of the central bank and the Finance Ministry held after the address of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to the Central Board of Directors of RBI in the customary post-Budget meeting on Saturday.
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RBI on their toes as always: Sitharaman on Adani-Hindenburg matter
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The Finance Minister was addressing a joint conference following the customary post budget meeting of the Central Board of Directors of the apex bank.
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"Oil bonds are trickery": Sitharaman slams Congress over UPA government de
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday termed the oil bonds issued during the Congress-led UPA government's tenure as "trickery", saying that the present government is repaying the burden
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