New Delhi, Feb. 1 -- Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made history this morning as she presented a record ninth consecutive Budget in the Parliament.

This will take Sitharaman closer to the record of 10 budgets that were presented by former PM Morarji Desai over different time periods. She will continue to hold the record of presenting the maximum number of budgets on the trot - nine straight budgets under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

She was appointed as India's first full-time woman Finance Minister in 2019 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a decisive second term. After Modi came back to power in 2024 for the third time, Sitharaman continued to retain her finance portfolio.

The Finance Minister kept income tax rates and slabs...