Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is presenting Budget in the Lok Sabha. This is the eighth consecutive Budget for Nirmala Sitharaman.

Ahead of her Budget speech, Sitharaman posed for the cameras with the 'Bahi Khata' outside the Ministry of Finance.

LIVE: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will begin presentation of Union Budget 2025 at 11 am today. The Union Budget 2025, which is the first full budget of Modi government 3.0, has garnered massive expectations of relief to middle class and tax cuts.

Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget in Parliament today for the eighth consecutive time, setting a record as the only finance minister to achieve this milestone.

This year’s presentation will be a significant milestone for Nirmala Sitharaman. She is now the first Finance Minister in India’s history to present eight consecutive Budgets.

LIVE: Amid high hopes of income tax reliefs, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said while presenting Union Budget 2025 that she will “introduce the new income tax bill next week.”

From an increase in standard deduction, more income tax rebate, to slab revisions, there are a number of expectations that the taxpayers of the country have from the Union Budget 2025-26. In his Budget 2025 session speech on Friday,