Nikunj Saraf, Vice President Choice Wealth, answers your queries.
The economics and pricing of the Covishield vaccines and the government's own decision to pay higher prices raise more than a few questions, observes Prosenjit Datta.
What senior citizens expect from budget.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
The Delhi high court on Monday sought the Centre and SBI's reply to former RCom chairman Anil Ambani's plea to include the Chinese banks, which have got a decree of $717 million against him from a court in United Kingdom, in the proceedings related to recovery of Rs 1200 crore loan granted to two of his companies. The high court also said that the moratorium on recoveries from sale of Ambani's assets, as provided under section 96 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), would remain in operation for now. This direction came on the application moved by the State Bank of India (SBI) seeking a declaration that the moratorium shall continue to be in effect.
'Nobody understands Gehlot's politics.' 'The Congress high command should wake up.'
On his 90th birth anniversary, Sukanya Verma lists 20 of her favourite scenes that reiterate his extraordinary grasp on the language of cinema and connect with the viewer.
In the new generation diplomacy, the US definitely occupies the most important place on Indian thinking wavelength but India is no sub-contractor of America in the global context wherein Uncle Sam can decide what and how much Indians should eat or not! US President George W Bush blaming the 'wealthy' lifestyle of India's huge middle class for the spiraling global food prices endorsing his Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice views only adds insult to the injury for Indians.
He alone gets the credit for reviving consumer interest in Ayurveda, says Bhupesh Bhandari.
Tata Motors made waves when it bought the Jaguar and Land Rover brands. Test your knowledge about the erstwhile owner of these brands -- Henry Ford.
China's journey up the growth curve has been so fast that the ride down could be equally nerve-racking.
For two decades while we continuously talked of infrastructure, power, ports, airports, irrigation, railways, roads, sewer systems, public transport, skill development, education, et all we also realised that our governments has very less vision to structure it, very little political will to carry it and far less managerial band-with to deliver such projects on time, writes M R Venkatesh.
After many false starts, India may well be at the inflexion point that Deng Xiaoping took China to post-1978. The window of opportunity is wide open right now, says Rajeev Srinivasan.
The stress levels across the country just refuse to die down even with multiple counselling sessions, says Sanjiv Kataria.
The sad part is that it is corporate war that is exposing the chink within the system.
'The BJP leadership and its agriculture minister must make up their mind on what kind of corrective measures will be needed for Indian agriculture at this point in time.' 'The sooner Mr Singh provides policy clarity on this vital issue, the better are the chances of India's agriculture and farmers emerging out of their current mess,' says A K Bhattacharya.
'Look at the number of billionaires, the number of new billionaires in India.' 'Adani and Ambani are not the only ones.' 'What's wrong with people making money as long as it benefits us?'
The jobless armies of youthful India are getting angrier and desperate, warns Shekhar Gupta.
Doesn't matter if Enron or Lehman didn't tell the truth - they aren't Indians, says Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
'Salman Khan family is the head of this venomous serpent.'
'In macroeconomic policy, timing is all, and by leaving things too late, Mr Modi may have made around 50 seats in the Lok Sabha highly vulnerable,' says T C A Srinivasa Raghavan.
That "Rollback Budget" ushered in an era of rollback.
'He has a gift none of his eight predecessors, from Manmohan Singh to Rajiv Gandhi, had: Being able to speak directly and convincingly to a large enough section of Indians who will take his word for gospel,' notes Shekhar Gupta.
'Women's voices are too high or too low, or they are seen as too short or too tall, or too fat or too thin, to be great leaders.' 'These judgments wear us down.'
In this weekly self-help series, mental health and life coach Anu Krishna tells you how to take control of your life.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
'The Akali government is not responsible for the Punjab power crisis as Mr Sidhu is saying.'
'If you sit collar turned up and tell yourself, you are great, you will never evolve as an actor.'
'The real India lives in the villages where everyone is trying to improve the other.'
The commerce minister ought to seek validation for his incentives with the finance ministry.
The comprehensive Senate immigration reform legislation, America Inc thinks, will adversely affect Indian IT companies and will have an inimical spillover impact on American firms too.
Avinash Sable's national mark headlines strong showing in IGP 2
'Will Mr Jaitley listen, or is that expecting too much in pre-election season?' asks T N Ninan.
'If anything, he is a fiscal hawk.' 'He has avoided fiscal profligacy completely for the past four years.' 'The fiscal deficits since 2014 are clear proof of this.' 'The point is not that it is not 3 per cent yet; it is that it is not 6, 7 or 8 per cent, which it could easily have been.' 'For this he needs to be congratulated.' 'He has recognised it no longer pays to spend other people's money to win elections,' points out T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
'It is just that they are not in the limelight in a city like Mumbai.' 'It is not a lonely journey, but a tough journey for sure.'
Mr Trump's endorsement is a compelling reason Indians waiting for the Turnaround that is Just Around the Corner shouldn't take him too seriously.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
...But October has always brought them good luck. "We met in October; we got married in October and now this," says Sumedha Kailash, wife on Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi
'The current economic contraction is certainly due to the lockdowns as a response to the pandemic, which is an act of God.' 'Nobody has seen such a thing in the last 100 years.' 'Saying that this was an act of mismanagement is largely incorrect'
