Most investment costs are bundled in with the financial product, and are often hidden in fine print, warns Erik Hon.
Faced with a situation where the spouse's transferable job keeps taking the family to different locations, thus jeopardising their own careers, many women simply fall off their career track and resign themselves to relocation every time their husband gets transferred, says Sudha Menon.
'The finance minister has told the BJP's core voters we are hearing you and we are sensitive to your aspirations.'
The railways may offer high-speed train corridors to global players.
Striker Costa ends second spell at Atletico Madrid.
Tax expert Anil Rego answers readers' questions about how Finance Minister Piyush Goyal's Budget affects you.
The most immediate cause of worry is the recent volatility in foreign exchange markets, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tells the Assocham annual general meeting.
Indian economy about to take-off
If the presentation made by the Commission to the chief ministers is followed in letter and spirit, central sector and sponsored schemes will no longer be the domain of central ministries alone.
Jaitley's Budget has the potential to change the face of Modi's Bharat
Softening the demonetisation blow, the Budget for 2017-18 on Wednesday halved the tax to 5 per cent on incomes up to Rs 500,000 but proposed a new surcharge of 10 per cent on incomes between Rs 50 lakh and Rs 1 crore and raised duties on cigarettes and pan masala while stepping up allocations for infrastructure, rural, agriculture and social sectors.
The success of the government will depend substantially on the quality of its team of key ministers, officials and advisors
It observed that there is no record of the money meant for the welfare of construction workers.
Modi said bribery was not possible as the money was transferred directly into accounts of the beneficiaries.
PM extended some old schemes and finally said yes to one that was legally mandated for past 2 years.
RIL has denied knowingly producing any gas from the ONGC block
The government, he said, has implemented 'bold reforms'.
The finance ministry and several agencies under it such as the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which are investigating the affairs of Sahara India Parivar, are worried about its exposure to National Spot Exchange Ltd (NSEL) products.
Close to a million small shareholders have stake in nine NCLT-bound companies
Foreign Trade Policy: More incentives for exports, focus on ease of trading
6 post offices have been identified for the pilot stage.
Supreme Court allows more instruments to use the biometric card.
How investors can tweak their fixed income investments to earn more in the current environment.
In several areas, the Indian government has put out a model law.
Mihir Bhat, fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and Director of the All India Disaster Management Institute tells rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa that the youth of the country will swing into action to see what gets done on the ground.
Insurers have eased the documentation process to file claims so that they can be settled faster
Modi isn't going to voters on his track record but on the fear of the terrorist across the border and the Muslims within. It's a battle on his terms, says Shekhar Gupta.
'Modi followed a prime minister whose second term was marked by such tragic passivity that Indians, it would seem, are willing to go to great pains to help this one realise his ambitions for them.'
The expectation that Mr Modi would be a major reformer, capable of reinvigorating the Indian economy, were based on a complete misreading of both his actions and his performance as Gujarat chief minister, says Mihir S Sharma.
Prez assent to Gujarat labour law with contentious provisions.
SC refuses to extend the deadline for Sahara to deposit Rs 600 crore
"There will be no discrimination in name of caste, religion and sex. There will be overall development," Adityanath said in his address at the Maharana Pratap Inter College in Gorakhpur, his parliamentary constituency.
The first stage of the inclusion strategy was focussed on opening bank accounts, logically seen as creating the last-mile channels for financial access.
State-run Bank of Baroda and Oriental Bank of Commerce are among those facing scrutiny.
Kumar accused Prasad of renouncing social justice agenda and making it a mere slogan for personal popularity.
Budget might turn out to be neutral for the sector.
The fiscal deficit of the Centre remains a worry, running at over 6.5 per cent of GDP in April-September 2014, mainly because of revenue shortfalls from exaggerated projections in the government's July Budget and despite the relief on subsidies from lower oil prices.
Here is an explainer and a timeline relating to India's purchase of 36 combat jets.
Total subsidy bill could come down to around Rs 2 trillion.
'It is common knowledge that cash is anonymous.' 'When demonetisation was implemented, one of the intended objectives was to put identity on the cash holdings in the economy.' 'With the return of Rs 15.28 lakh crore in the formal banking system, the almost entire cash holding of the economy now has an address.' 'It is no more anonymous,' says Arun Jaitley.
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