MADHUBANI (ANI) – Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman paid tribute to Madhubani art by wearing a saree gifted by Padma Shri awardee Dulari Devi while presenting the Budget on February 1.

This comes in the backdrop of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman raising the tax-rebate threshold from ₹7 lakh to ₹12 lakh in the Union Budget 2025-26.

Nirmala Sitharaman is a politician and a member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Currently she is the Union Finance Minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. Earlier she was Defence ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while presenting the Union Budget 2025-26, introduced a series of adjustments to basic customs duties (BCD) aimed at supporting domestic manufacturing, boosting ...

The policy also deals with basic issues such as whether municipal corporations or councils are to be given incentives for providing solid waste and investment in segregation plants. Budget 2024 ...