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”Each person is born in or under one of the twelve signs of the Zodiac and is thus influenced throughout life by the planetary conditions at their time of birth. By referring to your sign, which is indicated by your date and month of birth you can determine your natural tendencies and what is best for you to attract. No matter what one of the twelve signs of the Zodiac you are born under, you can develop into a good and successful person if you will pay strict attention to the golden truths ...
 
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We all know that Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) is considered to be a popular route of investing in mutual funds due to the benefit of the rupee cost averaging that it provides. Selecting a particular mutual fund scheme suitable to your goals and risk appetite can be a tough task. However, things don’t end here. You also need to make several othe…
 
India’s women boxers have created history by winning four golds at the IBA World Boxing Championships that just concluded in Delhi. India topped the medals table, matching its best ever performance of 2006. The golden girls this time around were Nitu Ghangas (48 kg), Nikhat Zareen (50 kg), Lovlina Borgohain (75kg), and Saweety Boora (81kg). What is…
 
After the Punjab police launched a coordinated crackdown against the Dubai-returned radical preacher, Amritpal Singh, and his associates on March 18, there is rising concern- about a revival of the Khalistan movement in Punjab. Here we discuss the developments. Guest: Shashi Kant, a former Director-General of Punjab Police; Manish Tewari, Congress …
 
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposals for a judicial overhaul that would limit the powers of the Supreme Court have triggered massive protests in the country. More than 100,000 protesters gathered in front of the Israeli Parliament or the Knesset, and as the country’s most powerful trade unions called a general strike, there were f…
 
The phenomenon of Amritpal Singh has taken Punjab by storm. In a daring act, his supporters ransacked a police station in Ajnala and freed some of his associates in February. From a businessman in Dubai till September last year, Amritpal has become Punjab’s leading practitioner of separatist politics, telling Frontline magazine in a recent intervie…
 
Last week the Supreme Court asked the Centre for data that could point to a more dignified, less painful, and socially acceptable method of executing prisoners other than death by hanging. A Bench of Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice P.S. Narasimha even mooted the setting up of an expert committee to relook at India’s method of ca…
 
Rahul Gandhi was disqualified as a member of Parliament from Wayanad constituency in Kerala on the 24th of March, a day after a Surat court convicted him on criminal defamation charges. Mr. Gandhi was sentenced to a maximum two-year jail term. The decision sent shockwaves through the country’s polity. A two-year jail term in a criminal case means t…
 
Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) banks and private banks are in a much better shape now than before. Therefore, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has advised banks to set aside specific provisioning towards their exposure to top 20 business conglomerates of India. The move is to lean on the side of caution and should not be construed as any ‘warning s…
 
Padma Bhushan awardee Kirit Parikh feels that it is imperative that CNG and PNG consumers get natural gas at affordable rates, as it not only supports efforts to reduce CO2 emissions but is also economically viable in many cases compared with other fossil fuels such as petrol and diesel. A government-appointed committee headed by Parikh recently su…
 
China and India have steadily increased their energy imports from Russia since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war even though the West has imposed restrictions. In a recent report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) was worried that India’s Russian oil imports could be undermining the G7’s price cap. It said that the imports could be “heading i…
 
The Lok Sabha passed the Finance Bill 2023 on March 24. It was passed with various amendments. One is the taxation of investments in debt mutual funds as short-term capital gains. Suresh P Iyengar, Deputy Editor, discusses the recent capital gains tax amendment and its impact on mutual fund investors in this podcast. Listen in.…
 
Tune in to the second of our two-part podcast series with PN Vasudevan, MD & CEO, of Equitas Small Finance Bank. He narrates his journey from a professional to a promoter and what went through when he was building Equitas, as a Microfinance company and subsequently as a bank. Listen to
 
The Indian Patents Office on Thursday rejected an application of global pharma major Johnson and Johnson seeking an extension of its patent on anti-Tuberculosis (TB) drug Bedaquiline beyond July 2023, when it is set to expire. Why is this significant? Will it help TB patients in India? The Hindu businessline’s Senior Deputy Editor G Naga Sridhar ex…
 
By postponing elections to the provincial assemblies in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa beyond a constitutionally-mandated period, the Election Commission of Pakistan has strayed into uncharted territory that could imperil democracy in the country yet again. This comes after a same-page show by the Army chief Asim Munir and the government of Prime M…
 
In recent weeks, there have been many attacks by stray dogs on people, especially children. With an estimated 1.5-6 crore stray canines roaming around the streets in India, questions are being raised about the implementation of municipality laws and cultural attitudes of tolerance towards stray dogs. Here we discuss the scale of the public safety i…
 
We fill out a lot of forms, there are so many KYC procedures we go through, we share our phone numbers today, pretty much with everybody, whether it’s to buy a toy at the toy store, opening a bank account, to a diagnostic center for a blood test. Our ID’s are also sort of sought out from hotel booking to anything related to GST, bank statements, an…
 
The Wagner Group has been at the forefront of Russian gains in eastern Ukraine, especially in the battle for the town of Bakhmut. It was also in the news over attempts by members of the U.S. Congress to label it as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO), but strangely enough, the Biden administration is opposed to such a labelling. In another relat…
 
As FY2023 draws to an end, it is time to review what went right for the Indian economy in the year and what policymakers can do to improve the economy in the coming financial year. This exercise could not have come at a time – the Indian economy is coming out of the impact of the Covid–19 pandemic and is starting to gather steam even though the glo…
 
The brand-new Verna sedan from Hyundai Motor India (HMIL) has been released, with prices ranging from ₹10.90 lakhs to ₹17.38 crore. (ex-showroom, introductory prices). According to the manufacturer, young people are significant buyers of vehicles like the Verna because of their cutting-edge designs and technologically advanced features. Tarun Garg,…
 
By issuing a warrant for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the International Criminal Court has upped the ante in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. It sets a bar from which retreat will be a trapeze act for the West. American President Joe Biden has hailed the ICC decision even as Chinese President Xi Jinping travelled to Moscow to mee…
 
The Centre is pushing for regional air connectivity of smaller towns that are of importance. However, one of its policies could stop the industrial town of Hosur in western Tamil Nadu and bordering Karnataka from being deprived of having a new airport. The current policy does not allow new airports within a 150 ­km radius of an existing airport. Un…
 
Purpose is not an altruistic pursuit. It is a unifying idea of the problems you want to profitably solve, says Prof Ranjay Gulati, Harvard Business School Professor of Business Administration and author of Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies, with Vinay Kamath. (Produced by Darshan Sanghvi)…
 
A Constitution Bench judgement of the Indian Supreme Court on March 2 took the appointment of Election Commissioners out of the sole hands of the political executive and assigned it to a three-member committee comprising the Prime Minister, the Chief Justice and the leader of the largest opposition party in the Lok Sabha. Appointments will take pla…
 
Online scams are becoming extremely common. Whether you’re a marketer who grapples with this reality on a day-to-day basis or a consumer targeted by these scamsters – you’ll benefit from a better understanding of the . On this episode of Digital gadfly, hosted by Shubho Sengupta, Kavitha Kanaparthi, a Web 3 specialist and entrepreneur, offers tips …
 
The Bar Council of India’s latest announcement to allow foreign lawyers and foreign law firms to enter the Indian legal market paves way for them to advise foreign clients operating in India on international legal issues, including international arbitration. So, how does this work and will it change the way India looked at international arbitration…
 
Financial year will end in a few weeks. Along with the tax planning purposes, this time it is also important for your mutual fund investments. As per SEBI guidelines, you need to complete certain tasks before March 31, 2023 to avoid freezing of your mutual fund folios. Hence to have seamless mutual fund investment journey, tune in to the podcast to…
 
Last week, California-based Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest bank in the United States, collapsed, sending shock waves through the start-up universe. Then two more banks – the crypto-currency focussed Signature Bank and Silvergate Capital – shut down, sparking fears of wider financial contagion, similar to how the collapse of Lehman Brothers i…
 
Another day. Another bank crisis. This time it’s the almost 167-year-old Credit Suisse bank. On Wednesday, after Saudi National Bank, said that it would not provide fresh funding to Credit Suisse, shares of the Swiss bank plummeted to a record low of $1.40 per share. However, Saudi National Bank said that the panic around Credit Suisse is unwarrant…
 
Next month, the Supreme Court of India, will listen to final hearings on the issue of legal recognition for same sex marriages in India. A number of petitions have been filed, seeking this recognition. The case follows the landmark Puttuswamy judgement of 2017, affirming the right to privacy as a fundamental right, and then the Navtej Johar judgeme…
 
For the first time, United Nations members have agreed on a unified treaty to protect biodiversity in the high seas. On March 4, a draft international agreement, called the UN High Seas Treaty, was finalised to govern the conduct of governments in ‘open seas’ – the major part of the world’s oceans – two-thirds of it – which lie beyond the jurisdict…
 
In a rare moment for Chinese diplomacy, Beijing used its good offices to broker an agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia that should see the two warring West Asian nations re-establishing diplomatic relations and re-opening their embassies within two months. China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, who is a signatory to the “joint trilateral statement”, sa…
 
The Indian rupee has had an interesting run these past few weeks. It strengthened in response to investor inflows into the markets but started losing steam soon after the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s testimony to the U.S. Congress in which he said controlling inflation would continue to be the focus area. Does the RBI have a choice beyo…
 
Since September 2022, India has translocated eight African cheetahs from Namibia and 12 from South Africa. This is part of a long-term conservation plan to re-introduce the wild cat into the country after it became extinct in the 1950s, primarily due to hunting. The aim is to be able to build a self-sustaining population, centred at Madhya Pradesh’…
 
The National Stock Exchange (NSE), one of India’s leading stock exchanges, has tweaked the constituents of its major indices such that three Adani Group companies are all set to enter key Nifty indices from March 31. The Adani stocks being included in Nifty indices include Adani Wilmar, which has been added to Nifty Next 50 and Nifty 100, Adani Tot…
 
COVID-19 and the fear around it may have gone away, but over the past few weeks, India has been rocked by cases of fever and intense coughs. People across States have been falling sick, and some have even had to be hospitalised. Last week, the Indian Council of Medical Research said these cases are linked to Influenza A, the H3N2 subtype virus that…
 
2023 is a busy year for state elections, with a total of nine state elections scheduled to take place. We are in March now, and three of those assembly polls have concluded. In all three – Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya – the incumbents have been returned to power. The BJP was voted back in Tripura, although with a reduced vote share, while in Nag…
 
A few days ago, the results of an interesting study were published. The study, conducted in the United Kingdom saw 61 companies and 2,900 employees take part in the reduction of the work-day week, from the standard five days, to four days. At the end of the six-month experiment, employees were less stressed, had better work-life balance and were ab…
 
On February 24th, the Supreme refused to entertain a PIL seeking period leave for students and working women. The three-judge Bench, headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, observed that the issue had “different” dimensions and asked the petitioner to approach the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development to frame a policy. The court…
 
GDP data for India in the Oct-Dec 2022 quarter has given out mixed signals. Of concern are a contraction in manufacturing despite a let up in input costs as well as the slowing growth in the high-contact services sectors. Still, the government seems confident of 7% growth in FY23 despite a revised growth rate data put out for FY22 at 9.1%. What doe…
 
The one-year anniversary of the ongoing war in Ukraine saw a number of related developments beyond the battle zone. First came the visit of President Joe Biden to Kyiv, where he reiterated the motto of ‘As long as it takes” for American support to the Ukrainian war effort, underlining that the US is in it for the long haul. Then President Vladimir …
 
The Tata Group-owned Air India has placed two big orders with Europe’s Airbus consortium and Boeing for 470 planes – the largest ever single order placed by an airline in aviation history. As per the list price, the value of the order is around $70 billion. This order is evidently part of a strategy to rapidly expand the fleet and increase market s…
 
On February 17, the Election Commission of India (ECI) allotted the name ‘Shiv Sena’ and the party’s Bow and Arrow symbol to Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s faction, in effect recognising it as the original party founded by Balasaheb Thackeray. The political crisis in Maharashtra began last year after a group of 40 of the 55 Sena MLAs wa…
 
The Election Commission of India recently recognised the Shiv Sena faction led by Eknath Shinde as the Shiv Sena and allotted the bow and arrow symbol to it. This order is now under challenge by the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Sena in the Supreme Court. Using the test of majority principle, and that a majority of party MLAs in Maharashtra had s…
 
The inaugural edition of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) is all set to kick off from March 4. In an auction held earlier this year, five franchises – Delhi Capitals, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Gujarat Giants, UP Warriorz, and Mumbai Indians -- were sold for a total sum of ₹4,699.99 crores. In the players’ auction that followed, India opener Smri…
 
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