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NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday asked Customs officers to be on high alert to curb smuggling of drugs and bring the cases to their logical conclusion at the earliest.

NEW DELHI: The GST Council, chaired by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, is likely to decide on a number of issues such as decriminalisation of GST offences, setting up of Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunals and tax evasion by pan masala and gutkha companies at its meeting on December 17.

NEW DELHI: India is the “fastest-growing” economy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi but there are “people” in the Opposition who keep raising questions over the country's progress just out of “jealousy”, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in Lok Sabha on Monday.

NEW YORK: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Biocon Executive Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Nykaa founder Falguni Nayar are among six Indians who have made it to the Forbes' annual list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women.

NEW DELHI: Ahead of the Union Budget 2023-24, 51 eminent economists have written to finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and demanded an increase in social security pensions and an adequate provision for maternity benefits.

NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Wednesday that India's macro economic fundamentals are strong and inflation is at manageable level.

NEW DELHI: With 2 months to go for the presentation of Union Budget 2023-24, the government has invited ideas and suggestions from the public.

NEW DELHI: Industry captains on Monday asked finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman to retain her focus on public spending on infrastructure, which will also include private investment, provide sops for sectors that create additional jobs, continue the concessional tax regime for the manufacturing sector and help channelise funds into the green…

NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will hold pre-budget consultations with her state counterparts on Friday.

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.

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.