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Wanted to keep Budget Speech shorter but ended up breaking own record: FM In July presenting her maiden Budget, Sitharaman had spoken for 2 hours 17 minutes Current Affairs :Fund Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who gave the longest-ever Budget Speech, on Tuesday ridiculed it saying she needed to keep it shorter however wound up breaking her own record. Sitharaman had on February 1 given an abridged 161-minute discourse showing the Budget 2020-21. This bettered the record of the past longest Budget Speech made by her in July a year ago. In July displaying her lady Budget, Sitharaman had represented 2 hours 17 minutes. Talking at an industry occasion, Sitharaman stated, “…not simply my discourse which was long and that is the grouse that I am holding toward the service. “I continue telling that in every single one of them, and in actuality, I have been industriously bothering them to state a year ago’s was long, I need this year to be shorter. In any case, someone plotted...

Budget 2020: In a marginal hike, defence budget raised to Rs 3.37 trillion The total outlay does not include Rs 1.33 lakh crore set aside separately for payment of pensions Current Affairs :Armed force Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane on Tuesday said a CAG report that censured the power for delay in acquisition of unique garments for warriors serving in high height regions, including Siachen, is “somewhat obsolete” in accordance with 2015-16. The Army is very decidedly ready today, he declared. The report by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), which was postponed in Parliament on Monday, pulled up the Army for delay in acquisition of attire, gear, snow goggles and multi-reason boots that are required to be given to officers serving in high elevation regions. In the wake of meeting a gathering of 30 news coverage understudies of Abasaheb Garware College here, General Naravane told correspondents, “In the event that you take a gander at the CAG report ...