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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

India has 2nd largest Muslim population in the world, minorities decimated in Pak: Sitharaman

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday slammed the reports appearing in Western media about violence against minorities in India, especially Muslims, saying that those commenting on such issues should come and see the reality on the ground as India has the second largest Muslim population in the world and the minorities are not only growing exponentially, they have been incentivised and doing their business in the country.

Soul of Irresponsibility

The impact, in a word, will render banking out of joint, and cause tremendous inconvenience to individual clients, the corporate sector, and the government in the wider canvas not the least because banks are largely nationalised ever since 1969, the high noon of the Indira Gandhi dispensation.

Budget 2021

What George Washington had said more than three centuries ago about the Budget still holds true: ‘We must consult our means rather than our wishes.‘ In the ultimate analysis, the Finance minister has been wise in not going overboard and keeping expenditure within reasonable limits