Indian shares inched higher in a special session for the union budget on Saturday, with investors watching for consumption-boosting measures amid an economic slowdown due to high inflation and anemic wage growth.

In November 1947, the nation's first post-independence budget was presented. Learn about the finance ministers of India and the specifics of their budget presentations since independence.

(Reuters) -India plans to cut personal income tax rates to boost middle-class spending power and seeks to increase private investment to strengthen growth, the 2025-26 budget showed on Saturday. The world's fifth-largest economy is expected to post its slowest growth in four years next year amid frail urban demand and weak private investment,

Copies of Union Budget 2025 are brought to parliament as Union Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will today table her 8th Union Budget, for the fiscal year 2025-26, in Lok Sabha.

The budget of India is traditionally presented by the Finance Minister. However, there was a time when the Finance Minister did not get the opportunity to present the budget. This Minister took over the responsibilities of the Finance Ministry but did not present the budget.