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Rajya Sabha on Wednesday returned two Appropriation Bills authorising payment of certain sums from and out of the Consolidated Fund of India for the current financial year. Read on for details:

Mutual concern over China has drawn US and India closer in recent years, including to reorient supply chains.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that despite this year's projected growth rate of 7 per cent for the Indian economy, India remains concerned about the global economic outlook and geopolitical environment. Read more on Dynamite News:

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman identified high energy prices among the biggest problems facing the Indian economy in the near future

"We are talking to different countries. Singapore and UAE have all come forward now to make Rupay acceptable in their countries," Sitharaman said at the Brookings Institute think-tank during a fireside conversation with eminent economist Eshwar Prasad. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Sitharaman will hold meetings with major U.S. investors who are members of the USIBC and the US India Strategic Partnership Forum

The one lever that the government could have pulled as it watched private investment decline was to step up public investment

In the time she spent in the vegetable market, she also took selfies and interacted with residents.

K. Chandrashekhar Rao betrayed Telangana and changed his party’s name to Bharata Rashtra Samiti, says Finance Minister

The Finance Minister says India entering an era of robust economic activity