Budget 2025 Key Highlights: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present her 8th budget in a row on Saturday, February 1, 2025. FM Nirmala Sitharaman arrives at the Parliament to present Union Budget 2025.

The meeting would take place a day after the RBI announces the outcome of the Monetary Policy Committee meeting amid wide expectation of a rate cut by the central bank to boost moderating GDP growth.

Sitharaman holds the record for the longest budget speech when her presentation lasted 2 hours and 40 minutes in 2020.

Highlights: FM Nirmala Sitharaman's announcement on February 1 brings a gift for the Indian middle class with no tax payable up to ₹12 lakh income.

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget for 2025-26, marking her shortest full budget speech at 1 hour and 14 minutes. Notable past achievements include delivering the longest budget speech in 2020 and presenting India's first paperless budget in 2021.

MADHUBANI (ANI) – Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman paid tribute to Madhubani art by wearing a saree gifted by Padma Shri awardee Dulari Devi while presenting the Budget on February 1.

Some measures announced in the Budget 2025 such as support for MSMEs and agriculture may help banks improve credit and deposit growth but these are high-risk segments

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the the tax proposal will allow people to have more money in their hands.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in an exclusive post-Budget interview to NDTV said the government has not cut back on defence spending, rather it ensured that defence pensions and procurement expenses are never lowered.