The call for an economic revival also brings afresh memories of the landmark 1991 Budget which was presented by late former finance minister Manmohan Singh.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget 2025-26, marking her eighth consecutive budget. She holds the record for the longest budget speech at 2 hours 42 minutes in 2020.

The masterstroke in Budget The full text of Manmohan Singh’s visionary speech provides invaluable insight into the pivotal moment that changed the trajectory of India’s economy. Sir ...

Manmohan Singh's 1991 budget was a turning point, one that propelled India into the global economic mainstream and marked the ...

Congress MP P Chidambaram on Monday, while participating in the discussion on the Union budget in Rajya Sabha, asked the govt ...

India’s longest budget speeches have been delivered by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in 2019 where she set her first record with a 2-hour and 17-minute speech.

One interesting fact from the Saturday address was that Sitharaman tabled the first full budget for Modi 3.0 in just 74 ...

Kolkata: Ex-PM Manmohan Singh's cautionary words on the threat ... They ate a Bengali lunch and loved the fish preparation. His speech highlighted excellence in education and freedom of expression.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made history on Saturday by presenting her eighth consecutive budget with a ...

In his maiden speech as finance minister he famously ... and growth rates remained consistently high in the 1990s. Manmohan Singh was a man acutely aware of his lack of a political base.

It is with much sadness that I learned of the passing of my good friend Manmohan Singh. We have known each other since 1955, a period of seven decades, when he came up to St John’s college, Cambridge, ...