Nirmalaji, Don't Forget This India

Adnan Abidi/Reuters captures men at work in the streets of a wholesale market in old Delhi days before the Narendra Damodardas Modi government presents its final Budget, ahead of India's general......

Budget: Will Nirmalaji Loosen Purse Strings For Poll Gains?

The finance minister's assertion that industry should not expect any spectacular announcements in the 2024 interim Budget suggest that the electoral imperatives of more tax concessions or higher......

Nirmalaji And Why I Quit The Government

She said I treated her like a bachchi.At another moment, she said I had gone to various people and 'bitched' about her.She also threatened to bring the entire matter to the PM's notice.A revealing......

Who's The Lady With Nirmalaji?

What some of our leaders were up to this weekend. IMAGE: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, left, with International Monetary Fund First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath, right, at the G20......

Is It Time To Smile, Nirmalaji?

Now that the economy is growing at a higher-than-expected rate, it is time to accelerate the pace of fiscal consolidation, and the Budget could be a good starting point, argues Rajesh Kumar.......

Nirmalaji, What Surprises Can We Expect?

IMAGE: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Minister of State for Finance Dr Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad at the Halwa ceremony as the final stage preparations for the Interim Union Budget 2024......

Should Nirmalaji Be Worried?

The deficit stood over Rs 8 trillion in the first seven months of the current financial year.Non-tax revenues, comprising transfers from the RBI and dividends of the public sector units, shored up......

2024 Interim Budget: Mistakes Nirmalaji Can Avoid

Pre-Budget exercises should scrupulously avoid adventurism of all types and refrain from making excessively ambitious projections on revenue and expenditure numbers for 2023-2024, suggests A K......