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'Answerable only to our people': Sitharaman on question about India's fuel
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
India's top priority is to provide fuel to its people at an affordable price and it has fulfilled its duty during the latest volatility in global energy prices after the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict last year, said Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
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Strong sense of caution is required against financial influencers: Nirmala
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while addressing an interactive session on Sunday in Karnataka said there is no proposal to regulate social and financial influencers but emphasised that a strong sense of caution is required.
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Methods adopted by Western countries during Covid-19 pandemic caused stres
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Certain methods used by Western economies during the Covid-19 pandemic caused global economic stress as an after-effect, said Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday.
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Sitharaman highlights ANI tweet showing elderly walking barefoot to SBI br
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The plight of the woman was first highlighted by ANI on Thursday in a tweet embedded with a clipping, showing the elderly walking barefoot for kilometres to get to the branch for collecting her old-age pension.
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Climate change "hitting us from various different angles": Nirmala Sithara
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
"Climate is now hitting us from various different angles, hitting us in everyday life," Sitharaman said during a panel discussion at a World Bank-organised event on "Making it Personal: How Behavioral Change Can Tackle Climate Change".
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Digital Public Infrastructure has potential to benefit both public, privat
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday spoke at length on DPI (Digital Public Infrastructure), underlining how India, during the last couple of years, has seen its contribution to targeted quick, efficient and inclusive service delivery through innovative methods.
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Post-pandemic development requirements becoming lot more focussed: FM Nirm
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Speaking at a press briefing in Washington on Thursday, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the third pillar will now have to be sustainable goals and other climate-related objectives, climate funding, and so forth.
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"Very important area": Nirmala Sitharaman on strengthening of global finan
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Describing the Global Financial Architecture as a "very important area", Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that through India's G20 Presidency, several sessions will be taking place to get into the details of how we want to look at the financial architecture itself.
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FM Sitharaman calls for timely debt restructuring to counter global debt c
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Sitharaman said this on the first day of the second G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting held in Washington DC, which she co-chaired with Reserve Bank of India's Governor Shaktikanta Das.
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FM Sitharaman attends Development Committee Meeting of WB-IMF's Spring Mee
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Nirmala Sitharaman stated that "despite this year's projected growth rate of over 6 per cent for the Indian economy, we remain concerned about the global economic outlook and geopolitical environment", according to a tweet posted by the ministry of finance on Thursday.
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Need to address growing debt distress across the globe: FM Sitharaman in U
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday underlined that in order to address the mounting debt crisis around the world, it is necessary to supplement current global initiatives, especially those of the G20.
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Build consensus on definition of global development challenges, augment Wo
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday participated in the roundtable on 'Multilateral Development Bank Evolution: Building Shareholder Consensus' hosted by the US Department of Treasury Secretary at World Bank headquarters.
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