As per Sitharaman's Twitter handle, messages with themes such as the upcoming Budget 2019, disinvestment, new economic reforms such as GST 2.0 have been gaining traction.
The top job in the finance ministry opened up as Arun Jaitley, who held the position during Modi's first five-year term, made himself unavailable for health reasons
Nirmala Sitharaman had Modi and Jaitley's backing for the role
The indices recovered lost ground to end with marginal losses
She had a brief stint as a junior minister in the Finance Ministry in 2014, while handling the trade portfolio
Unlike Shah and former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who opted out of this government due to ill health, Sitharaman is seen as a political lightweight.
Known as a no-nonsense minister, the Rajya Sabha member's political graph is steep
Blurring the lines between soldiers and political activity is good neither for society nor for the military
The long-term perspective plan (in defence sector) is becoming a rolling long-term perspective plan," she said
Govt is sensitive to problems faced by armed forces, says Sitharaman
In a series of tweets, the former Finance Minister also asked Sitharaman to locate Uri and Pathankot in India's map
Nirmala Sitharaman's office tweeted that Gandhi should "start from ABCs" and read the complete report before commenting on it
Sitharaman described her US visit as part of her endeavour to "take forward the bilateral defence cooperation"
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A reporter asked the defence minister at a press conference in Delhi why the NDA government was "tom-tomming" the operation two years later.
She said that under the guise of providing loans to do business, banks were made to lend without assessing factors like repayment capabilities
Putin is scheduled to visit India early next month to hold the annual India-Russia summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Sitharaman accepted that the NDA government too had underspent its capital budget in its early years
Sitharaman touched upon the need to create a workforce in all establishments in accordance with the nation's vision to become a dominant force in cyberspace
She said her ministry had requested a hotline between India and China, helping in communication between the two countries in the case of any disputes such as Doklam