Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks on Union Budget 2020 at the Breakfast Briefing session organised by India Foundation, in New Delhi.
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Senior CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat, Communist Party of India (CPI) national secretary D Raja and others stage a protest march, against the recent Union Budget presented by Finance ...
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks during an interactive session with businessmen on the Union Budget 2020-21 in Bengaluru.
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Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman recieves a bouquet from Chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes Pramod Chandra Mody during an interactive sess...
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Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman speaks at an interactive session on the Union Budget 2020-2021 with industrialists, in Chennai.
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Left supporters during a protest against Union Budget 2020 at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks on the Union Budget 2020-21, in New Delhi
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh react as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, left, wipes her forehead during presentation of the Union Budget 2020-...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's father Narayanan Sitharaman and daughter Parakala Vangmayi at Parliament on the day Union Budget- 2020-21 presentation, in New Delhi.
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A man carries a copy of the Union Budget 2020-21 that was presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Lok Sabha, at Parliament in New Delhi
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(L-R) FICCI Immd Past President Sandip Somany, FICCI President Sangita Reddy and FICCI Secretary General Dilip Chenoy during the budget viewing session at FICCI Federation House in...
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during the post-budget press conference in New Delhi. Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2020-21 in the Lok Sabha today.
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Senior Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram addresses a press conference on the Union Budget 2020-21, at AICC headquarters in New Delhi.
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Chief Economic Adviser Krishnamurthy V Subramanian during the post-budget press conference in New Delhi.
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during the post-budget press conference in New Delhi
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Brokers react as they watch the impact of Union Budget 2020-21 presentation on stock prices, at Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in Mumbai.
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An investor reacts as he watches the impact of Union Budget 2020-21 presentation on stock prices, at Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in Mumbai.
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A view of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on the day of Union Budget presentation, in Mumbai.
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, MoS Finance Anurag Thakur and finance ministry officials pose for photographs after giving final touches to the Union Budget 2020-21, at ...
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Daily wage laborers wait to get hired in Mumbai. An economic survey for 2019-20 presented to Parliament by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the economy grew around 5%, but ...
The three key areas highlighted in the Union Budget 2020 are vocationalisation, digitization, and enhanced foreign direct investment in education in India. However, these measures should not be privileged at the expense of the core concerns of higher education in India.
Replying to the debate on her Budget for 2020-21 in Rajya Sabha, she said FDI 'ran out of the country in 2012-13' under "competent doctors" overseeing the economy.
Too much should not be read into it, except it does reflect the Government’s directional thinking in its focus areas of spends and its revenue generation plans, writes Robin Banerjee.