Union Budget 2026: Five interesting facts ahead of Nirmala Sitharaman’s ninth Budget speech

As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman prepares to present the Union Budget 2026, India’s Budget history once again comes into focus.
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The bag, the Brit, and the bahi-khata: A biography of the Budget

India's budgetary story began under colonial rule. On April 7, 1860, James Wilson, a Scottish economist and founder of The Economist, presented the first Indian budget. On November 26, 1947, RK ...

Halwa ceremony, bilingual move: 5 interesting facts about India’s Union Budget

In 1950, the Budget was leaked during the printing process, prompting a major change in how the documents were handled.| India News ...

Union Budget 2026 Quiz: Who presented Independent India’s first budget and when? Read interesting facts here

Three months after Independence, in November 1947, presenting an interim budget, the union finance minister R.K. Shanmukham Chetty, underlined his concern over rising prices, due mainly to ...