Union Budget 2025 Live Updates: FM Nirmala Sitharaman to present her 8th consecutive Budget

Union Budget 2025 Live News Updates: Here’s all the updates from the Union Budget presented in the Parliament by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Look out for announcement regarding changes in income tax rates and slabs, capital expenditures, new infrastructure projects, agriculture and railway spending plans and more.

When is the Union Budget 2025 presented?

The Union Budget will presented by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Parliament today i.e. February 1, 2025 at about 11 AM. The Stock Markets remain open today despite being a Saturday in lieu of the Budget. businessline has a separate live covering the stock market which you can follow here. The budget will plan out & project the Union Government’s revenues and expenses for the next financial year starting from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026. 

To know about more prior budgets, please click here.

How & Where to watch the Budget?

The Budget 2025 presentation will be streamed on various platforms. You can watch the live stream of the event in channels like Sansad TV, Doordarshan in addition to most news channels and their respective YouTube channels.

Here’s why the Union Budget 2025 is so important:

Expectations of the Union Government increasing the base exemption limit for income tax are sky high. In addition to that several sectors have expressed their expectations for the budget which we have covered extensively in our Budget Expectations Live which can be read here.

This is the first full fledged budget in the BJP & Modi’s third tenure. This could potentially set the tone for the remaining years of the tenure. This is also the record 8th successive budget presentation by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

With GDP numbers in Q2FY 25 showing 5.4% growth and Economic Survey Report released yesterday projecting a modest 6.3% to 6.8% growth in FY26, a lot depends on how the Government is going to respond to it. So, tune into this live blog for all the important announcements in the Union Budget 2025.