This will be PMIS Round 2, again a pilot project that will offer 1,00,000 paid internships in leading companies across 730+ districts of India. The idea behind the initiative is to allow young job seekers to gain work experience with their first practical exposure to real work environments, training them for future career possibilities. Huge ...

The official Budget 2025 Date shows Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will deliver Budget 2025 during a 11:00 am session on February 1 before Parliament. The upcoming Budget 2025 represents an important milestone because Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman delivers her eighth consecutive Budget speech above Morarji Desai’s six Budget cycles. Before the Budget 2025 presentation ...

On Friday night, January 24th the Central Secretariat’s North Block will host the traditional Halwa event which marks the last phase of the Union Budget preparation process. The event will be hosted by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman who will be joined by State Minister Pankaj Chaudhary and senior officials from the Finance Ministry. Attending the ...

Parliament’s Budget Session is scheduled to be held from January 31 to April 4. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will table her eighth straight budget on February 1. As per the convention, the session will begin with President Droupadi Murmu’s address to a joint sitting of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on January 31.  The ...

India will maintain its strict investment scrutiny for neighboring countries, Ms Sitharaman said, even as New Delhi improved diplomatic relations with Beijing. The statement was made days before Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping are likely to meet at the BRICS summit in Russia. This development comes after both countries agreed on the standardized pattern ...

Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2024 in Parliament on Tuesday, marking her seventh consecutive budget. Bringing cheer to consumers, she proposed a series of cuts on the customs duties levied on various items. “My proposals for customs duties intend to support domestic manufacturing, deepen local value addition, promote export competitiveness and ...

Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman holds a folder containing Union Budget documents outside the Ministry of Finance in New Delhi India on July 23,2024. The Union Budget 2024-25 will be presented in the parliament by the country’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman (photo:pallav paliwal)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new cabinet, dubbed with Modi 3.0, has taken shape, bolstering stability in key ministries while introducing new faces in several others. On Sunday June 9, Modi along with 30 Cabinet Ministers, 5 Ministers of State with Independent Charge and 36 Ministers of State took the oath, marking the beginning of the ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s later disclosure with respect to her choice to reject the BJP’s offer to contest elections has started critical discourse inside political circles. Sitharaman candidly revealed that she turned down the opportunity due to budgetary imperatives. In spite of being drawn closer by BJP President J P Nadda with the choice to ...

The 51st GST Council meeting will be presided over by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman by videoconference on Wednesday, August 2, at 4 p.m.  The GST Council is expected to decide during the meeting how to calculate the supply value in online gaming and gambling in order to impose a 28 percent tax. The meeting ...