Tag: Nirmala Sitharaman
Economy
Government: 20-day leave for our employees not mandatory
PIB fact-checked the media reports that claimed that the government had introduced a new leave encashing policy and found them to be wrong
Podcast
News podcast in English, Hindi: 15 January 2021
News reports received in the morning of 13 January 2021, read by Sirf News' Editor-in-Chief Surajit Dasgupta: Total duration: 10 min 34 s
Economy
Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code to stay suspended till Mar 2021
Nirmala Sitharaman said the suspension of the IBC has been postponed even further, from 25 December to, I think, 31 March 2021
Economy
Forbes names Sitharaman as world’s 41st most powerful woman
In May 2019, Sitharaman was appointed as India's finance minister, and is the Minister for Corporate Affairs. She is India's first full-time female finance minister
India
Farmers who want broker raj back march to Delhi, blocked
Farmers who are protesting want the regime where they were bound by law to sell their crops to middlemen and APMC markets back ― for reasons known best to them
Economy
Sitharaman: Budget to unveil more changes to push growth
The finance minister said that the government would have to make sure that policies were right to make India an attractive investment destination
Economy
Finance minister announces Rs 65,000 crore fertiliser subsidy for farmers
Finance Minister further said, Rs 3,000 crore will be released to EXIM Bank for promotion of 'Project Exports' through lines of credits
Economy
Sitharaman: 28 states brought under One Nation One Ration Card scheme
"There has been very good progress on 'One Nation-One Ration Card' in 28 states covering 68.8 crore beneficiaries," said FM Sitharaman