Nirmala Sitharaman is the current Finance Minister of independent India. She took charge on 31 May 2019. Who served as the first female Finance Minister of independent India? Indira Gandhi served ...

Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister, briefly held the Finance Ministry in 1958 and again in 1959-60. During his tenure, he continued to emphasise his vision of a socialist-inspired ...

LONDON, April 9 (Reuters) - India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said ... rates with a quarter-point reduction in February, its first cut since May 2020. "I welcome it with a sense of ...

Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the first person of ... When Singh became finance minister, the situation was dire. India was in a severe balance of payments crisis.

Free India’s first Union Finance Minister R.K. Shanmukham Chetty (1892-1953) was no prominent speaker on personality development. Yet, during his reply to the debate on his maiden Budget ...

As finance minister, Singh in 1991 instituted reforms that opened up the economy and moved India away from a socialist ... He was the first Sikh to hold the country's top post and made a public ...

In addition, Morarji Desai is the first person in the history of independent India to have presented the most Union Budgets—six in a row. When he was the Finance Minister, he unveiled 10 budgets.

Her tenure as Minister of Finance, beginning in 2019, and her leadership in various other portfolios — including her role as India's first full-time female Minister of Defence — have made her a key ...

She was appointed as the Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs on 31 May 2019. She became India’s first full-time female ...