The tradition of carrying a briefcase for budget presentations in India, rooted in British customs, evolved when Nirmala ...
From Bahi Khata and briefcase to tablet, the presentation of the Union Budget has undergone a massive transformation over ...
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 for a traditional ‘bahi-khata’, to carry ...
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present her eighth consecutive Budget using a digital tablet enclosed in a ...
Ahead of the Union Budget 2025 presentation, Sitharaman, along with her team, posed outside the Finance Ministry with a ...
Nirmala Sitharaman, India's first full-time woman Finance Minister, broke away from the colonial tradition of carrying a ...
Previous finance ministers, including Arun Jaitley and Piyush Goyal from the Modi government, used the standard Budget briefcase. The tradition of carrying the Budget briefcase is a British legacy.