Pranab Speech

Budget speeches in India: it's how you say it

Wednesday February 13, 2013

From Shakespeare to Bollywood, ministers have used all kinds of popular and esoteric sources to make their points.

Full text of Pranab Mukherjee's speech

NDTV.com | Friday January 25, 2013

On the eve of our 64th Republic Day, I extend warm greetings to all of you in India and abroad. I convey my special greetings to members of our armed forces, paramilitary forces and internal security forces

President Pranab Mukherjee's speech on Independence Day eve

NDTV.com | Tuesday August 14, 2012

On the eve of India's 65th Independence Day, President Pranab Mukherjee, in a televised address to the nation, congratulated countrymen, saying that the glass of modern India is more than half full. Here is the full text of his speech:

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NDTV.com | Wednesday July 25, 2012

President Pranab Mukherjee arrived at home at Rashtrapati Bhavan around noon today, shortly after he took oath of office as India's 13th President. He was escorted to the spectacular presidential palace by the horse-borne President's Bodyguard. A lit...

President Pranab Mukherjee: Full text of speech

NDTV.com | Wednesday July 25, 2012

Pranab Mukherjee was sworn in as the 13th President of India today. Here is the full text of his speech:

Highlights of President Pranab Mukherjee's speech

Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Wednesday July 25, 2012

At 11:38 am today, India got its 13 President in Pranab Mukherjee. The former Finance Minister was sworn-in at the central hall of Parliament.

No loss of faith in the India story: Pranab Mukherjee

Sunday April 22, 2012

On the sidelines of the annual World Bank and IMF meetings in Washington, the Finance Minister acknowledges that the government's success will depend on its ability to take coalition partners along. "I shall have to try to achieve fiscal consultation...

Union Budget: FY'12 deficit shoots up to 5.9%; seen at 5.1% in FY'13

Friday March 16, 2012

For FY2012-13, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has pegged the fiscal deficit target of 5.1 per cent.

Union Budget 2012: Pranab Mukherjee's full speech

NDTV Correspondent | Friday March 16, 2012

Today's Budget is one of the biggest challenges of Pranab Mukherjee's long political career and the Finance Minister set the tone for it when he described the year gone by as a "year of recovery interrupted." He began with listing grim ground realiti...

Union Budget 2012: Read the entire speech here

Friday March 16, 2012

Read the entire transcript of Pranab Mukherjee's Union Budget 2012 speech here

When time comes, will have to bite the bullet on subsidies, says PM

Friday March 16, 2012

After Pranab Mukherjee finished his Budget speech, Prime Minister implied subsidies need to be controlled.

No problem in rollback of speech, says Pranab

NDTV Correspondent | Friday March 16, 2012

Injecting a note of levity in his sombre Budget presentation, a smiling Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee told the Lok Sabha on Friday that he had no problem in a "rollback of the speech".

Budget 2012: Sensex up 90 points before Pranab's speech

Friday March 16, 2012

Expectations from this year's Budget are running low.

India's Budget 2011: What was promised, what was delivered

Nikhila Gill, The New York Times | Thursday March 15, 2012

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee made some lofty promises during his budget speech on February 28, 2011. For the most part, the government has been unable to keep its word, in part owing to the inability to pass reform in Parliament, but also exacer...

Pranab's 2012-13 Budget to be 81st in India's history

Thursday March 15, 2012

The Parliament has so far hosted 80 budget speeches, including interim and special-situation budgetary proposals, ever since the first union budget of indepdendent India was presented by then Finance Minister R K Shanmukham Chetty on November 26, 194...