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Day 2 of the presser by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman addressed issues related to migrants, farmers, street vendors, small traders and self-employed people

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a financial package worth Rs 20 lakh crore, it was finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman who addressed a presser and gave shape to the package. 
 

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a Rs 20 lakh core financial package, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman addressed a presser today, outlining the specifics. 

FM Sitharaman is likely to discuss credit issues with the PSU bank chiefs as part of efforts to prop up the economy hit by the COVID-19 crisis

Indian Railways is gearing up to run trains for a group of very special passengers on multiple routes. In a bid to raise awareness about social distancing norms in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter to share a video of a group of young children who can be seen explaining the importance of maintaining social distancing in an innovative manner.

After finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a financial package of Rs 1.7 lakh crore a few days ago, government sources add that the government may come out with another big package

Union Health Ministry announced Coronavirus outbreak in India is still in local transmission stage, and there has been no community transmission so far. It has come to light several Twitter users have wished death to finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the same way as Thomas Schaefer.

A few Twitter users have wished Indian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman meet the same fate as the finance minister of Germany’s Hesse state Thomas Schaefer who committed suicide 

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced an economic package of Rs 1.7 lakh crore that will help the poor, migrant workers, farmers, widows, the specially-abled and construction labourers, under Prime Minister Garib Kalyan Yojana project

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has extended the last date for income tax filing for FY18-19 to June 30

Congress senior leader P Chidambaram has welcomed the indications that finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will announce a financial package to extricate India out of the coronavirus mess. International Olympic Committee or the IOC has said that it is willing to postpone the Tokyo event, but ruled out cancelling the event.
 

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram welcomed indications that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will announce some relief measures in the Lok Sabha

When former AICC chief Rahul Gandhi posed a question on defaulters, minister of state for finance replied to him, the names have been put out on the website. It is also alleged that the question was photographed. 

There are reports that former finance minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram wanted to join the BJP. This comes as embarrassing as his son put out a tweet about ideology in relation to Jyotiraditya Scindia quitting the Congress 

Former finance minister P Chidambaram has termed the move of the SBI bank to invest in Yes Band as “bizarre”. A special investigative team of the crime wing of the Delhi police has identified the killers of head constable Ratan Lal in the Delhi riots.