Finance ministers, over the years, have added some poetic touch or other elements to the budget announcement. Here is how Nirmala Sitharaman, Arun Jaitley and other have added theirs, check full list.

The tradition of carrying a briefcase for budget presentations in India, rooted in British customs, evolved when Nirmala ...

On February 1, 2025, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to deliver her eighth consecutive Union Budget. Under ...

The budget is expected to contain measures to shore up weakening economic growth and ease the burden on the middle class ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's Union Budget speech in 2020 was by far the longest, lasting two hours and 40 minutes.

In 1860, the then British budget chief William E Gladstone carried his papers in a red suitcase with the Queen's monogram in ...

The BJP-led NDA government has had important leaders serving as the finance minister under its regime. Policies introduced by ...

The Opposition has reacted to the Union Budget 2025 presented by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Lok Sabha today. Here's what they have to ...

4. FM Manmohan Singh: In 1991, then Finance Minister Manmohan Singh still holds the record for the longest speech in words, with 18,700 words to his credit in the presentation. Arun Jaitley holds ...

The Modi government has presented a total of 13 budgets since 2014. These 13 budgets also include two interim budgets presented in the election year during the first and second terms. In the first ...