Nirmala Sitharaman

Amid the escalating geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe, the much-awaited IPO of the state-owned LIC could postpone to FY23. The much-awaited initial public offering of the country’s largest insurer LIC, scheduled to be conducted in…

Banks in the country will be closed for a total of 12 days in the shortest month. February 2022 started off with a wham, as Feb 1, 2022 was marked as the Budget Day, when Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget…

It was found that 10 out of 22 commodities in the sample were cheaper on the GeM portal compared to other famous online e-comm platforms. The Economic Survey 2021-22, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Jan 31, 2022 is…

Govt Banks Recorded Rs 17,000 Crore Profit In 90 Days: Govt Can Refuse To Give More Money To Public Sector Banks Now In the upcoming Budget, underlined as the fourth Budget of the Modi government in its second tenure, to be held on…

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has stated that the government has no proposal to recognise Bitcoin as a currency in the country. With the start of winter session of the Parliament from November 29, a lot of reforms are expected to…

Railway, airports and coal mining have been picked to be the top 3 sectors to be monetised. It is being reported that the government is planning to raise Rs 6 trillion or Rs 6 lakh crore ($81 billion) over the next 4 years (2022-25). …

The Income Tax department has informed that it is constantly working together with Infosys to resolve the existing issues on the IT portal. The new, much-promoted income tax portal launched on June 7, 2021, with the Bengaluru-based IT…

The finance ministry withdraws yesterday's order of slashing interest rates on small savings schemes. On Wednesday (March 31), the government had slashed interest rates on small savings schemes, including NSC and PPF, for the first…

FM Nirmala Sitharaman responds to the two-day bank strikes and insists the importance of bank privatisation. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has responded to the two-day bank strike, held on March 15 and 16 by 9 bank unions, as a…

Sitharaman announces working with RBI in the process of privatizing two more public banks. Last week after the budget meeting, we informed you of the Finance Minister's plans of conducting the privatisation process for two more public…