At least 22 Pakistani riot policemen and four civilians were killed and over 65 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the Lahore High Court ahead of a planned protest by lawyers on Thursday.
According to the consumer affairs department, these chit funds are operating at a small level.
The department of post is planning to offer banking services by starting a full-fledged bank, to be named Post Bank of India.
Investors must remember that only resident Indians can open a PPF account and a person can have only one PPF account.
For longer tenure products, they offer higher returns compared to other instruments. But for shorter tenures, things are getting tighter for investors.
These funds generally deliver lower returns than stocks except during times when interest rates are going down.
'What we have here is a director who understands how people fight, but has not a clue about how they make love,' points out Sreehari Nair.
Conservative investors and those in the lower tax bracket should opt for these, experts tell Sanjay Kumar Singh
With one year left for assembly elections in Karnataka, the last big bastion of the Congress, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has found an emotive issue to counter the Bharatiya Janata Party as the latter prepares the ground for a fight to grab power. Raghu Krishnan and Nikita Puri report.
Permanent Account Number (PAN) has become a very important tool to the Income Tax Department in tracking high value transactions and ensuring compliance with the tax laws. Here's a how and why you should get it.
Get Ahead reader Prashant tells us how much he earns, where he invests and where his money goes.
Earlier, while presenting the Budget on February 1, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had proposed to cap cash transactions at Rs 300,000 with effect from April 1.
With interest rates expected to soften in the long term, debt funds have found new energy, and are expected to attract investors
There is no network of any kind that can count up to 150 million
The finance ministry and the RBI have performed many somersaults in these last 42 days.
The Bachchans get about 100 mails daily from fans.
The Marylebone Cricket Club, in association with the Bletchley Post Office, released a special stamp commemorating the 75th anniversary of India in Test cricket.
Bihar's ruling JD-U has sent 1 lakh DNA samples of its partymen to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office for testing to protest against his DNA jibe.
The biggest subsidy is on money orders with a per unit subsidy of Rs 25.80. This alone adds about Rs 287 crore to the postal deficit, the Survey said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday warned unscrupulous elements not to play with the lives of the poor by depositing illegal money into their accounts as stringent law against 'benami' transactions were in place to deal with them, as he asked the youth and other sections to move towards a "cashless society".
One has to mention the acknowledgement number and the date of filing of four quarterly returns.
The study says the entire supply chain of goods and services will suffer a massive liquidity shock.
The implementation of MCLR from April 1 has already led to a rate cut of 10 basis points on home loans by the country's largest bank, State Bank of India, and others.
Foreign travels could come under closer watch of the income-tax department from the next fiscal year.
The Public Provident Fund is one of the safest and convenient modes of investment.
RBI has also announced new guidelines to price loans from April 1.
The official twists and turns have raised questions on the government's credibility and its ability to pull the nation out of the demonetisation quagmire. To keep up with the new rules, the government has issued an updated FAQ on demonetisation.
An indefinite curfew has been clamped in three upper Assam towns as violence against army and administration continued unabated, leaving at least six dead, 40 injured.
Tax expert Mahesh Padmanabhan answered tax-related queries on the eve of the July 31 deadline to file tax returns.
Banerjee urged President Pranab Mukherjee to "save" the people of the country from the hardship caused by demonetisation and the resultant cash crisis
The actress will let the legal department take its course.
Normal life was disrupted for the second day on Tuesday due to the 72-hour bandh called in the Darjeeling hills by Gorkha Janmukti Morcha to demand Gorkhaland.
For easy and wide access, the government plans to market the bond through post offices and various brokers.
Mumbai's CST, Halebidu and Amruthapura. Sudha Murty lists her selection of India's beautiful monuments.
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