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 ...

2. Arun Jaitley: Former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in 2016, focusing on the state of the economy, cited an Urdu couplet which said - “Kashti chalaane walon ne jab haar kar di patwar hamein ...

The Opposition has reacted to the Union Budget 2025 presented by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Lok Sabha ...

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.

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

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

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 ...