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Prime Minister Modi reacted to the government’s first budget presentation for the term and said that this was a citizen friendly and empowering budget.

Union finance minister said that by financial year 2020, India would be a $3 trillion economy. This would only aid in realising PM Modi’s dream of a $5 trillion economy by 2024. But what needs to be done to realise the dream?

 

First woman finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the first Union Budget for 2019-20. From various schemes to the vision forward, here are the key takeaways. 

In her maiden budget, the finance minister noted that start-ups in India are taking firm roots and their growth needs to be encouraged.
 

The finance minister said the government will take measures to ensure that the rich tribal culture of the country is preserved.

Before announcing the budget, Nirmala Sitharaman posed without the traditional briefcase outside the colonial era building made of rose pink and pale yellow sandstone in New Delhi. Here is a  meme created by us on finance ministers' transformation through the years.

Nirmala Sitharaman noted that major economies will face labour shortage and added India will focus on training new age skills like artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, 3D printing.

Alcohol is the most common psychoactive substance used by Indians followed by cannabis and opioids, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday (July 4)
 

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman to present her first Union Budget shortly. This is also the first Budget of Modi 2.0 government. Catch all the live updates here on MyNation's live blog

With supposed “time constraint” the first woman finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman may not surprise anyone. It is believed that Sitharaman’s budget would be a “broad replication”

It doesn’t matter whether a man or woman presents the Union Budget. Everything boils down to what the common man wants

Union minister Prakash Javadekar said that effective steps need to be taken in ensuring that advertisements in India are not “obscene”.

Amidst water crisis across India, Union Jal Shakti minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat launched a conservation campaign. Mumbai received its heaviest rainfall over a 24-hour-period since the 2005 deluge. Watch today's headlines on MyNation in 100 seconds.
 

According to a statement from Stalin, party trade union leader M Shanmugam and senior advocate P Wilson are the nominees for the biennial election, slated on July 18.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee had called for a union of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) with the Left and the Congress against the BJP. The move was quickly dubbed as “meaningless” by veteran Communist leader S Sudhakar Reddy