Nirmala Sitharaman

Monday, Nov 29, 2021 | Last Update : 05:02 PM IST

No proposal to recognise Bitcoin as a currency: FM Nirmala Sitharaman

It was introduced in 2008 by an unidentified group of programmers as a cryptocurrency as well as an electronic payment system

29 Nov 2021 1:23 PM

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during the investors roundtable meeting hosted by FICCI and US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF), in Boston. (Photo: PTI)

UN, World Bank, IMF in need of urgent reforms: Finance Minister Sitharaman

Sitharaman arrived in the US Monday for a week-long trip to attend the annual meet of the World Bank and IMF in Washington

13 Oct 2021 11:16 AM

A ‘bad bank’ is a bank that buys the bad loans of other lenders and financial institutions to help them to clear their balance sheets. — PTI

Bad bank to get Centre’s boost

Centre to guarantee Rs 30,000 crore purchase of NPAs by bad bank

17 Sep 2021 7:58 AM

She said that that liquidity is no longer a major concern for the economy. The Bank-NBFC-MFI channel has been de-clogged and from October 15 there would be a special drive to provide credit to those who need it. — PTI

Finance Minister: DFI to be operational soon

The budget had allocated Rs 20,000 crore to capitalise the Development Finance Institution

14 Sep 2021 8:53 AM

Kharge said that India has a total of 366 PSUs employing 9.2 lakh regular employees and 4.98 lakh contractual employees. The Railways employs 12.53 lakh persons and the department of posts 4.18 lakh employees. If all these are sold off, what will be the future of these employees and their families, he asked. — DC file photo

Modi and BJP engaged in 'buying and selling' policy, says Kharge

The NMP reverses years of established policy without any objective criterion, Kharge said

04 Sep 2021 1:59 AM

Modi and BJP engaged in 'buying and selling' policy, says Kharge

The NMP reverses years of established policy without any objective criterion, Kharge said

04 Sep 2021 1:31 AM

Up to Rs 5,000 crore of financial assistance is already budgeted as 50-year interest-free loan for the states for the current year, she said. — PTI

Monetisation plan unveiled

The finance minister further said the Centre will also incentivise states to monetise their public assets

24 Aug 2021 9:15 AM

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman would perhaps explain that the Modi government did not move the amendment to the retrospective tax amendment as it wanted it to be proved how wrong the Mukherjee move was in terms of legality. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Retro tax scrapping will not lead to spurt in FDI

Everyone felt that it was curtains at last for what is considered Pranab Mukherjee’s policy folly as finance minister in 2012

10 Aug 2021 2:18 AM

The ride has been rough for Ms Sitharaman. Despite her best efforts, and visible results on the fiscal front, both investment and consumption remain subdued due to persistent modest expectations about the near term. (PTI)

Sanjaya Baru | Restoring confidence is key to economic growth

It is not at all surprising that Ms Sitharaman chose to be so bold as to claim credit for the sentiment on Dalal Street

09 Aug 2021 3:09 AM

It is now two months since Prime Minister Narendra Modi reshuffled his council of ministers but the appointment of former bureaucrat/entrepreneur-turned-politician Ashwini Vaishnaw continues to be a talking point in the Capital’s political circles. (PTI)

Anita Katyal | Talks with Didi costly for Cong seniors; Kailash falls from grace

Once a favourite of home minister Amit Shah, BJP’s national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya appears to have fallen from grace

08 Aug 2021 2:47 AM

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Thursday, August 5, 2021. (LSTV/PTI Photo).

Centre foregoes retro tax power

Introduces Bill to amend Income-Tax law

06 Aug 2021 12:58 AM

The bill proposes to introduce the concept of small limited liability partnership in line with the concept of small company under the Companies Act, 2013. (RSTV/PTI Photo)

Rajya Sabha passes Limited Liability Partnership Amendment Bill

Amid the uproar, Sitharaman made a brief reply following which the amendment bill was passed with voice vote

04 Aug 2021 3:29 PM

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses a press conference on Cabinet decisions, in New Delhi, Wednesday, July 28, 2021. (PTI Photo

Union Cabinet approves Bill to protect bank deposits of up to Rs 5 lakh

Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a Bill to protect bank deposits of up to Rs 5 lakh

29 Jul 2021 7:27 AM

Ms Sitharaman has announced a huge capital expenditure outlay across sectors from health to infrastructure, and even to the financial sector, by setting up a Developmental Financial Institution with a capitalisation of Rs 20,000 crores. ((Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | State back in saddle; can pvt sector drive growth?

There is the feeling that the economy is at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel, and the post-pandemic turnaround is around the corner

02 Feb 2021 7:14 AM

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at Lok Sabha during the Budget Session of the Parliament, in New Delhi, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. (LSTV/PTI Photo)

Govt proposes Rs 2.24 lakh cr outlay for healthcare in 2021-22: FM

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also proposed Rs 35,000 crore outlay for COVID-19 vaccines for the next fiscal

01 Feb 2021 1:27 PM

President Ram Nath Kovind with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, before the Budget Session of the Parliament, in New Delhi, Monday, February. 1, 2021. (PTI)

Budget 2021: Nirmala Sitharaman meets President Kovind ahead of Budget speech

Budget copies will be disseminated electronically, with documents being uploaded on the government website and on a special app

01 Feb 2021 11:00 AM

Aakar Patel | Modi’s eighth Budget looms, there’s still no ‘grand vision’

Unemployment has naturally followed the opposite trajectory, going from about 4% before Modi became PM to 6% and then to 9%

31 Jan 2021 12:37 AM

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman before announcing the Budget in 2019.

Dilip Cherian | Crunch time for babus preparing Budget 2021

Sources say that the first meeting of the budget preparing exercise took place with officials of the department of financial services

04 Nov 2020 3:47 PM

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses a press conference, ahead of the Bihar Assembly Elections, in Patna. (PTI)

AA Edit | Polls before policy? BJP vaccine carrot unethical

If Bihar is to get the Covid vaccine free, will other states also get it free? Has the cost of this been calculated?

24 Oct 2020 9:53 AM

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that a total amount sanctioned under the 100 per cent Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme. (PTI Photo)

Banks sanctioned Rs 1.43 lakh crore loans under credit guarantee scheme: FM Nirmala

Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme was launched to provide much-needed relief to the MSME sector to meet their operational requirements

14 Aug 2020 2:08 PM

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