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Budget should focus on job creation, steps to broaden tax base: India Inc to finance minister

NEW DELHI: The budget should focus on measures to accelerate job creation and broaden the tax base by rationalising GST and personal income tax slabs to boost consumption, industry bodies said in their pre-Budget meeting with finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday.

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Budget 2023-24: Nirmala Sitharaman chairs first consultation with industry leaders, experts

NEW DELHI: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday chaired her first pre-Budget consultations with the first group of captains from industries and experts in the field of infrastructure and climate change in the national capital.

The Times of India

US Treasury Secretary Yellen looks to India for ‘friend-shoring’

Mutual concern over China has drawn US and India closer in recent years, including to reorient supply chains.

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Money in NPS belongs to people, can't go back to state govts as per law: Nirmala Sitharaman

SHIMLA: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said the money in the National Pension Scheme (NPS) belongs to individual contributors and as per law, state governments cannot get it back.

The Times of India

Finance minister asks AIIB to scale up investments in clean energy, infra

NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday asked Beijing-based multilateral lending agency AIIB to scale up investments in priority areas like clean energy and infrastructure sector with a special focus on education and health.

The Times of India

Dollar vs rupee: Congress, BJP clash over Nirmala Sitharaman’s comment

NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharamans’s remarks about the rupee’s value vis-a-vis the dollar have sparked off a war of words between the BJP and the Congress. While the Congress has mocked and criticised the minister’s remarks, the BJP has countered it and defended their party leader.

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Business: Avoid Unidimensional View Of Indian Subsidies, Says FM Sitharaman To World Bank

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that despite this year's projected growth rate of 7 per cent for the Indian economy, India remains concerned about the global economic outlook and geopolitical environment. Read more on Dynamite News:

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India will come out of current global turmoil, move on path of sustained growth: Finance minister

WASHINGTON: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has exuded confidence that India will come out of the current global turmoil and move on the path of sustained recovery on the back of rapid digitisation and steps taken by the government.

The Times of India

India's 5G is indigenous; can provide to other countries as well: Nirmala Sitharaman

WASHINGTON: India has launched its indigenously developed 5G infrastructure and is ready to share it with other countries as well, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Thursday.

The Times of India

India briefs G20 finance ministers and central bank governors on its 2023 agenda

WASHINGTON: India on Thursday briefed the finance ministers and central bank governors of G-20 countries about its agenda for the next year when it assumes the rotating annual presidency of the grouping.

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Nirmala Sitharaman says budget to address growth, inflation concerns

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman identified high energy prices among the biggest problems facing the Indian economy in the near future

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FM Nirmala Sitharaman: Singapore, UAE To Accept RuPay Payment Mechanism

"We are talking to different countries. Singapore and UAE have all come forward now to make Rupay acceptable in their countries," Sitharaman said at the Brookings Institute think-tank during a fireside conversation with eminent economist Eshwar Prasad. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Nirmala Sitharaman U.S. visit | Slew of multilateral and bilateral parleys lined up

Sitharaman will hold meetings with major U.S. investors who are members of the USIBC and the US India Strategic Partnership Forum

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Why India Inc. is not taking a Hanuman leap

The one lever that the government could have pulled as it watched private investment decline was to step up public investment

The Hindu

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman takes a break to shop for vegetables in Chennai’s Mylapore

In the time she spent in the vegetable market, she also took selfies and interacted with residents.

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KCR guided by tantriks, says Nirmala Sitharaman

K. Chandrashekhar Rao betrayed Telangana and changed his party’s name to Bharata Rashtra Samiti, says Finance Minister

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RBI’s monetrary policy has sent a positive message: Nirmala Sitharaman

The Finance Minister says India entering an era of robust economic activity

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Rs 2/ltr additional excise duty on petrol, diesel put off by one month

New Delhi The government has put off by one month the levy of an additional Rs 2 per litre excise duty on petrol and diesel that is not doped with ethanol and bio-diesel in a bid to give the industry more time to implement the measure.

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Chandigarh international airport renamed after Bhagat Singh

During his 'Mann Ki Baat' radio broadcast on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that the airport would be renamed after Bhagat Singh as a tribute to the freedom fighter.

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Falling Rupee: TOI says ‘it’s all right’, Express says ‘hawkish commentary roiled markets’

While the Indian rupee has continued to hit record lows, editorials by prominent English dailies have differed on the role played by the Reserve Bank of India.

The Hindu

NCP asks Finance Minister Sitharaman to explain why rupee has fallen to all-time low against U.S. dollar

The rupee depreciated 43 paise to an all-time low of 81.52 against the U.S. dollar in early trade on September 26

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Cooperative sector happy with Centre's decisions, says Sitharaman after winding up Baramati tour

It was Prime Minister Narendra Modi who set up the Cooperative Ministry, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said

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The death trap that’s India’s illegal loan apps

One night in November 2020, Sai Aravind, telephoned a friend. In the course of the two-hour conversation, the 23-year-old wept incessantly, almost unable to speak through his tears.

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What’s ‘stopping’ India Inc from investing in India?

Last Tuesday, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman asked India’s corporate honchos why they were not investing in the Indian economy.

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