Amid the opposition's criticism of the BJP's Bihar poll promise of free Covid vaccines, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman asserted on Saturday that the announcement was perfectly in order an...

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Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman spoke of the possibility of another round of stimulus and said the Centre would come out with fresh growth and budgetary estimates for the pandemic-ravaged fiscal. ...

After making a U-turn on borrowing to compensate the states for GST revenue loss, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has written to them on the terms under which the Centre will borrow a sum of Rs 1,...

Indians have re-discovered the virtues of thrift in a Covid-battered economy. Household savings have started to rise as consumers have cut back on discretionary spending over the past six months. The ...

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said the V-shaped pattern of recovery is being seen in several high-frequency indicators, driven by various measures taken by the government to revive e...

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The actual size of the government’s stimulus package could work out to a modest Rs 40,000 crore and not Rs 73,000 crore, a report from the economic research wing of the State Bank of India (SBI)...

The government is keeping the option of coming out with more stimulus steps to boost demand and various measures are being assessed, senior finance ministry officials said on Tuesday. “We are n...