Such investments come with their own share of risks and buyers may need to hold on for at least 5 to 10 years.
V Viswanand, director and head, Products and Persistency Management, Max Life Insurance, will answer your queries in an online chat September 3, between 2 pm and 3 pm.
The fuel reforms are a very important signal of the government's commitment to tough economic reforms.
When oil prices are very high, cutting down the subsidy results in sharp increase in oil prices.
The comments came after Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley warned of tough measures in his first budget on July 10, saying 'mindless populism' needs to be checked as India aims to boost growth.
Amazon's investors are counting on its international business and expansion to help drive growth and support its $165 billion market value, one of the highest among US firms.
A government that confuses PowerPoints for policy is delaying structural change too much.
The 2015 World Bank group's Doing Business index ranked India at 142, down from 140, which it was the year before.
While Indians don't buy property during May-September due to the holidays/rains/ religious reasons, buyers should scout for property now.
Most insurers aren't comfortable with subscribing to the National Pension System as they see it as competition.
Govt reconstitutes body, says will not interfere in senior PSB appointments
Housing prices could drop by up to 30% over 6 to 12 months after demonetisation.
Ten Indian states contribute a lion's share of 95% or Rs 12.25 lakh crore.
Here are 15 things that would have made 2015 a great year.
Has the Modi government been more at odds with institutions than other governments? There is no doubt that there have been more run-ins. While the RBI and CBI cases have drawn attention, there have been others, less publicised, Subhomoy Bhattacharjee points out.
Power firms can pass on burden to consumers, stocks rise up to 2%
Indian Hotels, Tata Steel, Tata Teleservices, Tata Motors, Tata Power need some immediate attention of the Tata Group chairman
The shutdown was the longest in recent memory, and prompted US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White to call for a meeting of Wall Street leaders to help insure the 'continuous and orderly' functioning of securities markets.
In his book, former governor Subbarao says Chidambaram, Pranab were piqued by his tight rate policy.
If carmakers don't explore innovations to improve safety, they could be relegated to the garbage heap by new players, says Indrajit Gupta
The stock exchange does not store and display the numbers of investors. That would be like a bank publishing the details of its customers for everyone to see.
The success of the Bali Ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation in the first week of December in 2013 will mean that in 2014 countries will identify areas for early conclusion so that within the next two years, the Doha Agenda of the WTO -- which has remained in a limbo for long -- can be concluded.
Banks are in need of government support to manage the stressed assets
Apart from key bilateral issues, the two leaders also discussed situation in the region, particularly in wake of the increasing threat of terrorism and extremism from various sources including the Islamic State militant group.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that the states were free to announce farm loan waivers if they had the fiscal space and that there would be no shortfall this year in divestment and non-tax revenues.
The Niti Aayog has finalised the first draft of a new national energy policy.
Historian Stanley Wolpert, author of several books on India, passed into the ages recently. We remember Professor Wolpert with Rajeev Srinivasan's March 1997 interview published on the occasion of his controversial book on Jawaharlal Nehru.
The court order could put SpiceJet's revival plan under stress.
After helping the government in policymaking since October 2014, Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian is returning to academics and will be teaching at Harvard Kennedy School on a visiting position. In an interview to Dilasha Seth and Somesh Jha, he says the ease of doing business agenda needs to move forward and India must try to integrate with the global value chains. Edited excerpts.
Delhi Development Authority's land deal to Reliance Industries throws up larger issues of governance.
Common people expect the government to be aggressive and opt for growth related measures in the upcoming Budget.
In a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), USL said it had made a recommendation to the board of subsidiary United Spirits to consider the sale of the entire share capital of Whyte & Mackay.
'Demonetisation, is in principal, a mistake, because it involves a theft -- a taking of private property by the State.' 'It is one of those bad Indian ideas that has been tried twice in the past, with two failures for the record books.' 'This cloud over the economy will probably remain as long as Modi is in power.'
Reddy has worked to reform the economy.
Rajan said investments should return after initial investor worries over Brexit.
The Vasundhara Raje government's initiatives mark a critical step forward in labour law reforms.
In an hour-long chat on rediff.com on Friday, A K Prabhakar, senior VP and Head -- Equity Research (Retail), Anand Rathi Financial Services Ltd, discussed the best stocks to put the investors' money in.
The sluggish legal system in India makes it extremely difficult for law-enforcing agencies in the ministry of finance to punish violations of foreign exchange laws. Unfortunately, it is not just FEMA. The Prevention of Money Laundering Act too has significant infirmities, say Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and Pranati Mehra.
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