New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said India stands out as a fast-growing economy and will soon be the third-largest in the world.

Delivering the Diamond Jubilee Valedictory Lecture at Delhi School of Economics (DSE) here, she said India is moving fast on so many different parameters, which are largely economic.

\"Of course, India and its population, India and its location have strategic significance, but India stands together today and stands tall and stands distinctly on its feet because of the economic strength of India,\" she said.

\"What is making us literally stand out is the fast movement from the tenth largest economy in 2014 to fifth and the fourth, and now sooner, probably to the third,\" she said.

She emphasised that Indians should believe in themselv

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