Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invoked Goddess Lakshmi for the poor and middle class during his address at the start of Pa

LIVE: Finance minister brought cheer to the middle class, making income up to ₹12 lakh tax free in the Union Budget 2025. Nirmala Sitharaman on became the first finance minister to present Union Budget for eight consecutive times.

The government is trying to boost domestic demand among its vast middle class as food inflation dents disposable income.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the Union Budget 2025 as a 'force multiplier' for India's developmental trajectory, calling it a 'budget of aspirations' for 140 crore Indians. He indicated that this budget would realise public aspirations,

There will be zero income tax up to an annual income of ₹12 Lakh under the new tax regime, FM Sitharaman has announced.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has presented an annual budget that focuses on wooing the salaried middle class with tax cuts and spurring economic growth by boosting agriculture and