Interim Budget

Budget 2024: Sports gets Rs 45 crore hike in interim union budget

Sports Ministry has been allocated Rs 3442.32 crore in the interim union budget, compared to Rs 3396.96 crore the previous year.

India First | Interim Budget reveals futuristic vision; white paper to expose UPA’s role in near economic disaster

The Interim Budget for 2024-25 is not merely a vote on account but a preview of things to come

What Budget 2024 is telling the world, and you, about India

The absence of any freebies, on the other hand, points to the government’s confidence about the coming elections. In fact, the finance minister asserted in her budget speech that she would deliver a roadmap for a developed India (Viksit Bharat) in the full budget after the polls.

'A roadmap to achieve developed Bharat by 2047': Amit Shah praises Interim Budget 2024-25

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented 2024-25 Interim Budget for 58 minutes on Thursday, her shortest-ever speech so far. With India going for the Lok Sabha elections in three months, the FM made no major announcements, including no changes in the income tax rates.

Interim Budget: A pleasant non-surprise

The Interim Budget attempts to please people without losing sight on the fundamentals of public finance and economic development

What is an interim budget? How is it different from a regular budget?

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the interim budget for 2024-25 on 1 February. An interim budget is a short-term financial plan covering government expenditures until a new government takes over after the elections

India readies for 92nd Budget: What the first Budget looked like in 1947

An Independent India got its first Budget on 26 November 1947 and it was presented by the country’s Finance Minister RK Shanmukham Chetty. In his speech, he called it a ‘rare privilege’ and a ‘historical one’. But what did the country’s annual financial statement look like then?

Parliament Budget Session 2024 to be held from 31 Jan to 9 Feb; FM Sitharaman to present interim budget on 1 Feb

The upcoming budget session will be last of the 17th Lok Sabha. It will begin with the address of President of India Droupadi Murmu

Investors can find no better place in the world than India; has best-skilled manpower, rule of law, says Nirmala Sitharaman

To a question on the slowdown in the Indian economy, Nirmala Sitharaman said the government is taking steps to address problems in the "stressed" sectors

RBI’s change in monetary policy stance is as good as additional 25 basis-point rate cut, says governor Shaktikanta Das

While the RBI has cut rates by 75 bps since the start of 2019, banks have only eased their key lending rate by 15-20 bps.